Tim Gummer

Just a little thing really but  - currently, as soon as artboards are cloned they appear in the layers panel under the same name, and it's difficult to know which is which without clicking around the place. Of course they will eventually get proper names, but it would be lovely if they just named themselves Artboard 1, Artboard 2 etc when cloned.
 
That is all. 

lovely  -exactly what i was looking for - thanks @Psenda

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My next question is: do you think it will it ever be able to export to an InDesign format like it can a PSD? Unless industry standards change I need to be able to deliver editable layouts in a commonly-accepted format. PDFs won't always suffice, sadly.

Great to hear, because it will be a pretty important option in my opinion 

Enable "Save History With Document" then the next time you noticed it has happened you can send the document to the mods/devs which may help them see what caused it

Hi Tim,
Have you tried disabling Alfred to see if that allows you to copy text?

Go to your Notification Settings page and change the options there.
 

It seems that control-enter is actually…
 
the soft return key combo.
 
At the point of this posting after eons of frustration using the usual shift-return I only just thought to try some wild and crazy key combos, and stumbled on control-enter.
 
Dearest AD peeps…
 
Why?
 
Why Why Why… not a normal, intuitive, standard key combination for this?
 
But at least now I have something that is better than my workaround: quite literally that was breaking text boxes into two and nudging them vertically… such was my desperation with the line height issues I was getting via shift-return.

Just a little thing really but  - currently, as soon as artboards are cloned they appear in the layers panel under the same name, and it's difficult to know which is which without clicking around the place. Of course they will eventually get proper names, but it would be lovely if they just named themselves Artboard 1, Artboard 2 etc when cloned.
 
That is all. 

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I managed to replicate the behaviour using Andy's explanation above, ie undo an Option duplicated/move. This goes some way in showing where the trigger hibernates for overlaid triplicated or quadruplicated and so on objects. Anyhoo, today I made cards using Option drag without any undos and the design was fine .... having said that, I would stick to using a grid/guides then duplicate using Command J, then moving the copy, using snapping etc. That way an undo triggers no replications.
 
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This is a nasty little 'Option copy=triplicate objects' bug, still applies to AD 1.5.4
eg create business card with say outline, 6 lines of text, one background image & one logo > group objects in card > align to your cutting grid > option copy group to right x 3 & then all down x 4 & YIKES !! The whole page is in triplicate over each other & the printed finish is trash.
 
Here's work around a) DO NOT OPTION COPY in AD, use 'Command J' & then move objects to right > align perfectly in one move(important) > then repeat Command J to copy & move object > select 3 object groups or cards (in this case) and duplicate 'Command J' move down and again make it snap to your carefully positioned guides, then repeat 'Command J' 2 times for 4 rows. This produces one layer of objects!
 
work around b) create biz card > group & create a symbol from this ... repeat as above for copying ... this is useful because if you want to tweak adjust one card design, they all change (almost at any rate, bit buggy this, ie images have to be deleted independently, that's another bug report though) ....
 
 
lesson here : do not option drag to duplicate in AD, it's very unpredictable.
hope this helps someone, drove me crazy for two hours to get this card printed correctly.  :unsure:

That's really helpful to know Andy - and yes, like Ronny this is driving me  / has driven me around the bend.  Its the biggest productivity killer I know. Even more than social media! Please do make it a priority - it's well past time it was fixed.
 
T 

Hi,
 
I have a suspicion that this is caused by a fairly long standing bug.. if you Option-Drag to clone, then choose to undo, you will need to undo two times (once for the clone, and once for the ensuing drag).
 
We once thought that this behaviour was a good idea - we were wrong! I'll see if I can get it fixed..
 
Hope this helps,
 
Andy.

I just stumbled upon this. I don't really understand the decisionmaking process which shortcuts should be costumizable and which ones not. I hope i don't sound ungrateful. I just wanna know :)
 
Maybe you could put it into the Layer-Menu in the Menubar, easy as pie, ini't?

This was a great feature within Freehand - which I AFAIK illy doesn't have  - would tie in well with affinities great focus on node level productivity and power.

Nothing is stopping you from making that system work under the paradigm Illustrator uses. However, the reverse is not true. Having artboards mixed with layers makes some things impossible while the other system doesn’t. Mixing them is the worse of both options.

I'm not sure why this is so poorly supported across design apps  - even Photoshop (at least on the versions I own) doesn't have it and the only straightforward game in town seems to be Fireworks.
 
These days, most of my exported files for web site themes are 8 Bit PNG with alpha transparency.  it just makes sense.
 
And it's quite a wrench to the workflow to have to jump out of AD just to make these conversions and manual optimisations in another app. There is quite an efficiency hot as it's not just a matter of running a conversion script, each file has to be individually reoptimized from 24 bit with transparency down to 8 bit, selecting the colours etc
 
 
Please could this one be a priority?
 
T

Cropping the canvas it's essential , without having to input numbers as bigeyex says.
 
The Export-persona-slice-mode it's fantastic but including cropping canvas / infinite canvas / pasteboarding / ... would be great.

Just how illustrator and freehand do, but as of yet not on affinity.
 
If I have a bunch of elements on the page and say i decide to switch typefaces in the evolution of the brand Identity, in affinity i have to do this one by one over and over again.
 
Hopefully this will be a quick fix for you folks.
 
 
Note the freehand implementation is of course better - it allows selecting any old thing(s) (text, group, mixture of elements) and there is still facility to change the font - whatever type is within that selection will get changed.
 
Of course I could go on and ask for styles etc but will leave that for hit further down the road.
 
Cheers!

Somewhere on the list can we have a GUI artboard / document sizing?  Like Fireworks, photoshops crop with capacity to crop larger? (or illustrator, FH's artboard sizing tools)
 
Am often building free form collections of elements and need to just resize the artboard in an intuitive way without thinking about units, origin points etc.
 
But not as important as … many other things.
 
T 

wow - sorry - must have missed the memo
 
First impressions with the beta are that it fixes the problem - ie specific unselectable element are now selectable and transformable when opened in the beta.
 
SO so far… thanks!

wow - sorry - must have missed the memo
 
First impressions with the beta are that it fixes the problem - ie specific unselectable element are now selectable and transformable when opened in the beta.
 
SO so far… thanks!

Hello joshuaiz,
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The key modifier to scale/transform from center is cmd+drag in Affinity Designer.