Pixlers

There are not many purchasers that are not satisfied (see the MAS). :) But for example as a «professional graphic design software” “Expand Stroke” should do much better like in apps that costs nothing. People spent much time to report such bugs and feature requests, creating snapshots and movies, helping others and get unsatisfied because they cannot use Affinity professionally because those bugs are not corrected after years. Probably most of the professionals still use PS&Co.

It may apply to you that pricing is a critical factor. There's other users who have totally different reasons to avoid / escape Adobe's Software rental and actually had no issues to pay more. Setting up pricing was entirely up to Serif though...
I think that negative, even harsh feedback may be very useful for Software makers too.There's certainly nothing wrong in asking for additional Features.

Hi!
Regarding the "Select object when intersects with selection marquee" feature:
that's an important thing, and it's great you thought about it, but:
 
Could you please introduce a modifier key toggle for that feature (maybe ALT), so there's no need to deliberately open the Preferences for that?
 
Or, alternatively, you could introduce that smart little approach that some CAD software uses: drag the selection frame from right to left: "intersecting selection", drag it from left to right: "non-intersecting selection".
Some guys including me posted that wish already... here's a little reminder...
 
Cheers!
Eugen

Hi, thanks!
I understand that, but as important and cool-to-have the field input expressions are, they are besides my point.
Let me say beforehand that I'm used to the thinking of 3D and CAD programs (which AD is or will be the perfect complement to), so bear with my lengthy answer:
 
When you click-and-drag-create any primitive object (e.g. a box) in Affinity Designer or some 3D program, you give it a certain width and height, meaning the boxes' points simply extend to that measure in 2d space.
Additionally, besides the geometric data (the spline points etc.), the object also has a transform matrix stored with it, which defines it's position, rotation, scale, shear.
Same in Affinity, of course. The values of this matrix is what is shown and can be edited in the Transform panel.
 
Say an object has an initial rotation of 0°. Rotate it, and the value changes. To reset the rotation, simply enter 0 again.
 
In the same way, an object has (or should have) an initial scale of 1,0 (or 100%). You should then be able to either interactively or numerically change this scale value  -that's my request.
The object has been scaled? Enter 1,0 (or 100%) again, and it resets to it's "initial" size.
 
 
For now, AD is only offerning the Width and Height to be entered numerically. Although this might often be what you want, there are cases where I don't want to think in terms of the actual size, but in scale.
Example:
There's a box with say width 25, height 25.
I want to have that box 4 times as big... I enter 25*4 in the numeric fields (so it's 100 ´then). Ugh, no, made up my mind, should have been 3 times as big...
To change that, as it is now, I would have to enter 100 * 0,75 (or use undo).
 
If there were a "Scale" numeric field also, you could just enter 3, and be done...
Or just enter 1 and have the object in it's initial size, without having to remember width or height.
 
 
This might be more useful for the "geometrical" or "technical" side of illustration... which exists, of course, and I hope AD will to some extent cater here, too, not just place itself as the next cool "artist tool".
(btw. I for my part study architecture, but also do hand-drawings and illustrations...)
Hope to get the point across...
 
Or is this already possible, and I'm missing something?
 
Cheers
Eugen

Here's a screenshot of InDesign's "Transform panel". You can see it sports also percentage values besides W and H. That's what I mean.
 
 
By the way:
In the Transform panel, the box icon indicating the rotation (and hopefully scale!) center is missing an important mode: the Center icon as can be set in the viewport
 
Try it out: create an object, in the context toolbar click "Show Rotation Center", move it to some arbitrary place, and now in the Transform panel use the rotate slider. That ain't right, is it?
Made a feature request here already:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/28936-rotation-center-also-in-transform-panel/
 
 
So here's what's missing for a nice, simple and consistent transform workflow:
Viewport:
- Rotate AND Scale tools both support the Centre mark
Transform panel:
- numeric rotation AND scale/percentage values
- numeric editing the rotate and scale values should support the viewport Centre mark
 
 
Thanks!
Best
Eugen