["Collapse All" Option in the Layers Panel]

I wish there was an easier way to do it.  Keyboard command? Icon in the tool bar?  Something other than at the bottom of a long alt-click menu.

[How to add word spacing in paragraphs]

Wow, that is not intuitive at all. Word spacing is such a huge typography tool for copy fitting. 

Walt, Bruce, RC-R: Thank you for explaining this.

Boroji: Thanks for bringing this topic up so we can easily find it.

Serif: If your paying attention, making this more obvious and easier to find would be a very welcome addition.

["Collapse All" Option in the Layers Panel]

What Brian_J said,  Right-click on a layer and select "Collapse All Parents" towards the bottom of the menu.

[Designer: Grouping objects moves objects grouped]

v_kyr, thanks for your help and the time you've spend on this issue. 

With your assessment, I played around with the file I posted in order to reproduce  and understand your suggestions.

Part of the artwork was imported from a 3rd party app (Image Vectorizer) that creates vector outline traces from pixel artwork, and saved the file as an .eps.  When the .eps file was imported in AD, the individual elements come in as children of a parent layer...in this case it's named "Layer 1 (Layer)".  I believe this parent layer is either corrupt or at least not up to the AD standards.  Creating a new parent and moving all the children into it solves the problem.  It now groups just fine.

I played with other output file types from Image Vectorizer (.pdf and .svg) with no issues...it just seems to be with .eps file types, and only with some of the files I traced.

Just so you all know, I think Image Vecorizer is still an incredible tracing app...the best I've used in my 30+ years doing this stuff. 

We all need to work through the idiosyncrasies each little app brings to the table.

[Designer: Grouping objects moves objects grouped]

I haven't upgraded because I was unaware there was an upgrade  = )

 

Give this file a shot.

group-example.afdesign

[Designer: Grouping objects moves objects grouped]

I'm having a problem when grouping objects in Affinity Desiger mac desktop v1.7.2.  When grouping objects, the objects move within the group. See attached example.

[AutoTrace (convert raster image to vector)]

On 11/18/2019 at 7:53 PM, Mark Oehlschlager said:

Image Vectorizer from the Mac App Store is a good and inexpensive ($5) autotrace application for 1- or 2-color art.

Great program. Thanks for the referral.  People who bring up the color vs. B/W issue probably haven't use image trace before and don't realize how incredibly good and useful this app is.

[View (Hand) Tool Stuck]

I'm also having this issue. 

I'm using the Mac v1.7.2. 

I can confirm that I get stuck when using the Hand Tool by using the shortcuts to zoom out:  alt+space and click to zoom out. 

It's not consistent, but it does happen often.  It's very frustrating when trying to get into the flow of work.  I wish there was a way to get out of it without rebooting the program.

UPDATE:  Reading through other postings in this forum regarding the same issue, I ran across the When-this-happens-just-hit-the-space-bar solution.  It works great and doesn't interrupt work flow.  It was the solution I was looking for.