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The best way to achieve a shiny surface IMHO is with a conical gradient using a mix of lighter and darker bands against a silver background.

Friksel, after deleting the node do an opt/alt click on the handle instead of moving it. That will remove the handle which is much easier than adjusting it. 2a & b If you really want to adjust it instead of removing it turn on the "Snap off-curve handles" (the 4th icon in the Snap setting) then it will snap to be inline with the path. Hope that helps.

Bert, I agree it is something that is lacking. Especially when you have text so you need to reach the lower right handle. When I'm working on a large drawing I frequently create a New View of my drawing. In one view I have it zoomed into the detail area and the other is zoomed out or moved to allow use of the handles.

Perspective is not in Designer. It is in Photo. Skew is in Designer, it is done using a set of dual arrows that are located just outside the bounding box near the center handle on each side.

I wonder how Adobe can do this as there are several types of color blindness. Some of which are: Protanomaly, which is a reduced sensitivity to red light Deuteranomaly, which is a reduced sensitivity to green light Tritanomaly, which is a reduced sensitivity to blue light

FYI but I have found that when I have the Undo limit in the preferences at the default of 1024 I also find it slowing down after an few hours of work. I can't imagine needing to back up 1024 moves, so I reduce it to 402 and then don't see the slowing down.

Dodgreruk, I've been running AD since 2014 with some very good sized projects, on a late 2009 27" iMac, 3.06 GHz, running Sierra. I've been very happy with the operations. I had 8 gig memory and upped it to 12 when I had the hard drive replaced, but didn't see any difference in performance. I can't guarantee what you will think, but as I stated I'm very happy with it.

To smooth out the pixelation you would have to increase the DPI of your drawing.

I'm on a mac and while not a DAM I have been happy just using Pathfinder file manager. https://cocoatech.com/#/ It has a list mode that shows me file names sorted by name, create date, last updated, extension type, etc. It also has what it calls an Icon view which shows me an image view of each (again sorted by many criteria) up to about 3" square. I find it shows 98% of the affinity vector drawings and pixel photos (never figured out why a few it doesn't show). It shows SVG, PDF and pretty much other formats. Right clicking on a drawing will let me choose what application to use to open it up. Of course a double left click opens it in it's native application. It won't do descriptions or notes. But until something better comes along I'm pleased.

Just a thought, in Preferences>General there is an option Save thumbnails with documents. Do you have this selected?

Davorin, I'm no expert on SVG but when I export a document I to SVG if it's 72 DPI then it is saved as expected but when I export a 300 PDI it is converted to 72 DPI resulting in a size change. If you open the export window, select SVG then click on the More, there is an option to set what DPI is desired. I believe this will do what you want.

Psenda, can you scroll down using the mouse wheel or a trackpad with a down swipe?

On the Mac it's listed as Assistant Options, and yes it needs to be scrolled down to get to it.

I only can think of 2 other ways and they depend on your drawing. If the background is a solid color then use that color to fill the shapes. If the background is not solid make a copy of the background a child of each shape. As long as you Lock children you can still move the shape without causing a problem.

The day I walked into Computerland in March of '79 and discovered the Apple II I just couldn't leave without buying one. I couldn't even wait until the next day. I didn't care if I had to go a year without eating I just had to buy one now! Which is really odd as I have never done impulse buying.

Oh that brings back memories. Not necessarily good ones either. My Apple II used a standard audio recorder, I still have 3 as the first 2 almost didn't work. The third worked and only took 2 or 3 tries to get the program to load. And used standard audio cassettes. I wonder if a DATA cassette would have worked better. Luckily with, initially, 16k of RAM in the computer the programs were short. I thought I'd gone to heaven when Apple brought out their 5.25" single sided floppy drive. Luckily didn't have to worry about a mouse, squeaking or not.

I started out with the Magic Mouse almost 10 years ago. Quickly found I hated that creature. I thought it was the poorest design possible for getting any accuracy. Just before I'd click a button the cursor would end up moving. I then bought what I believe is a Logitech M620 which I have loved. But lately I find in AD that sometimes when I drag several layers all but one end up being dropped somewhere I don't want them. I'm assuming the left button's switch is wearing out. But after 9 years plus with heavy usage that's not bad. The resolution is great. It has 3 extra programmable buttons that I find I never use. Every few years I get a wild hair and set up the buttons to do something but 2 days later quite using them. I didn't feel that cordless was a big issue until I got this one, now I love cordless. A big plus was that the Magic Mouse needed new batteries every month or so and the M620 needs batteries every couple years with heavy usage. In 9+ years I bet I've replaced the batteries (2 AA batteries) about 4 times.

On my mac there is an inverted V that appears when in the Pen tool with opt key held down and while hovering over an existing handle. I get a slash when in the Pen tool and the pen mode is selected and I hover over an existing node. In any other mode the cursor switches to the Node tool's cursor (but stays in the Pen tool). In the Pen tool I only get a tilde (~) showing when cmd is held down (so it really is in the Node tool) while hovering over a path showing it can be dragged or with a click it will create a new node.

Great tip Oval. Very handy even on an English machine.

This issue has been around a long long time, here.

David, try using a opt + cmd + [ or ] to step though layers.

I would love to see AD have a preference to turn off the copy by dragging function. There are already multiple ways to copy so I wouldn't miss it. I find that I know I want to move something without it snapping so I press opt and end up with a copy. When making a very small move it's hard to start the move before pressing opt. At least it's hard to train muscle memory to do that.

Alex, on a mac if the option key (probably the alt key on Windows) is held down the guide will be the opposite of expected. Instead being placed in line with the cursor's position. Make sure it's not down when starting to drag the guide from the ruler.

Chris, a workaround you might not know about is that if you double click on either of the color circles you will get a color chooser panel: This allows easy conversion from different color formats and the insertion of hex RGB codes. The format is larger than the color panel, so is easier to make certain color selections.

FYI I think this would be the same as I had brought up about a year ago. I still have a problem with this. I thought the problem went away at one time, but I guess it was just my luck then was better as I am seeing it again lately.