Russ1642

Don't apologize for asking for these missing tools. They aren't features but rather expected basics.

You know you're missing a fundamental tool when people will use Inkscape just to get their work done.

Pretty much everyone is looking to get away from Photoshop and Illustrator. That's what I'm doing. I have a list of maybe a dozen features I absolutely require and Affinity manages to hit them all except something as basic as proper transforms. It doesn't look like they care either. All it takes is one thing not working and we're not leaving Adobe. What a missed opportunity.

Pretty much everyone is looking to get away from Photoshop and Illustrator. That's what I'm doing. I have a list of maybe a dozen features I absolutely require and Affinity manages to hit them all except something as basic as proper transforms. It doesn't look like they care either. All it takes is one thing not working and we're not leaving Adobe. What a missed opportunity.

You know you're missing a fundamental tool when people will use Inkscape just to get their work done.

Don't apologize for asking for these missing tools. They aren't features but rather expected basics.

I guess I can't find anything in @Jowday comments which indicates an inherent desire to criticize. Indeed "whining" it is not. 
No reason to take this stuff personally, even in a pandemic great eclipse !
I'd very much like to hear what, if any, timeline exists for this app.
There's enormous potential, but software needs developer hours and weeks. It doesn't continue to grow and mature by itself 🙂
As a type designer, in 1985, I was a beta tester for one of the very first vector design apps, Altsys Fontographer. I later worked with Adobe on Illustrator, Freehand, and InDesign, over the years. The desire for a good tool that behaves as expected is not whining, it's just wanting to be constructive and productive.
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Attached, a little bit of digital/analog evaluation. I studied letter carving in stone many years ago (before fontographer, even!), But I've done very little of it since then.
To help keep from losing the form, one must constantly take a rubbing of  the stone, and evaluate. This is a sort of digital rubbing 🙂
 

Any ETA on non destructive free transform, perspective and warp tools like those found illustrator/Photoshop?
 
 

Two years ago now!!!???? WTH  ???

Hello,
 
I was wondering if within Affinity Designer is there a "Free transform tool" to allow perspective distort with shapes, this is something that can be done within illustrator where you can take two points and can move them together or further apart with equal distance like the example below.
 
You can kinda do this with the "Corner" tool set to straight but this is set to only one angle when perspective distort can change the angle.
 
Thank you for your time and I hope you have a great day.
 
 
 
 
 
 

The only way they will listen, is to make reviews pointing out that this BASIC feature (Yes, it's basic - every other tool has this now!) - is missing entirely.
So, I'll go make reviews.