Aammppaa

I too find it fiddly to click the dot, it seems to reactivate when I then click drag. IMHO it is a pretty naff bit of UI design! Still R C-R has given us a good alternative, which I'll try to adopt in future.

View > Studio > Find & Replace Click the Cog icon for options about styles and fonts.

I'd say that this effect is very difficult to recreate in Designer at present (but someone may prove me wrong). It is essentially 2 curves (one for the upper edge, and one for the lower) which are then blended into each other. Designer has not got a Blend tool, so all the blending would have to be done by hand.

It is a good question. In the rounded rectangle tool (where percentages already exist as an option) the percentage seems to relate to length of the shortest side. Obviously this will not work for an irregular shape. I guess that the units aren't what is important here. The desired function is that the corner scales and remains editable with the corner tool. So if my corner initially has a radius of 5mm I should be able to tick a box to Scale with Shape (just as I can in Stroke and Effects Panels). Then when a resize occurs, the radius is simply recalculated relative to the amount of rescaling. If I increase the size of the shape by 3.456% then the radius is also increased by 3.456%. That would work wouldn't it? And if I want an absolute radius, we just retain the bahaviour as it currently exists.

If the two ends points in the pressure graph show a tiny dot in the center, then they move in sync. Click either end once to remove the dot, and they now move independently.

Many of the shapes in your file have corners defined by the Corner Tool. These are specified as an absolute size (like 0.125in) and hence they are not scaling as the shape is resized. This changes the shapes such that they no longer line up. Easy fix… select all the shapes, and then using the Corner Tool > Bake Corners. Will now resize just fine. A better fix would be for Affinity to upgrade the Corner Tool so that radii can be specified as a percentage, which will scale with the object. See…

When it works it is great, but I've wasted too much time trying to be clever in less than ideal circumstances, where I should have just made a manual selection!

Yep loosing all customisation is irritating to say the least.

There is no easy or automatic way to achieve the same thing. You can do it all by hand, duplicating and subtracting pairs of shapes as required, but it is cumbersome compared to the Pathfinder approach.

There already is a Hand Tool (or more correctly View Tool) last but one on the Tools (above Zoom and below Table). Shortcut: H

See this thread, where Dave Harris recommends setting the Bullet tab stop to 0, then other tabs should work correctly.

The red triangles indicate that text is overflowing from the text frame. The eye shows or hides the over flowing text. Try turning on Text > Show Special Characters to see whether you have a lot of Paragraph Marks or similar causing all the white space in the text frame.

Paragraph Panel > Tab Stops > ... (extended options popup) > 'From Right'. With multiple tab stops toggling 'From Right' changes the order of the tabs in the list. This is logical, because the tab which is now measured 'From Right' places itself in order, working from left to right, but… The popup remains open, which obscures the tab stop list, so it is not obvious that reordering has happened. The popup no longer relates to the original tab stop, but to whichever tab stop happens to occupy that position in the reordered list. The UI is ow out of sync: 'From Right' is ticked, even though it now applies to a tab stop which is not measured from the right! All of this is rather confusing and unhelpful! Either the popup needs to close when 'From Right' is clicked. Or the popup should move to be above the original tab stop, wherever it appears in the newly reordered list. Or the popup needs to be removed altogether, as it seems largely redundant… Each row of the tab stop list contains… Position Alignment Leader Delete The popup panel contains… Alignment (+ decimal character) Leader (+ character input) Position From Right Delete 4 of these 7 options are duplicates, but in a different order! Not very elegant UI design IMHO. Could the size of the Position input in the tab stop list be reduced (it can currently contain a 10 digit number!) This, along with the loss of the ... popup panel icon would create enough room for a 'From Right' toggle. Finally: In the text frame ruler, tabs measured from the right are flipped vertically, but this is not honoured in the iconography of the tab stop UI. If this were consistent it would be visually apparent which tabs were from right and which from left. Thanks.

There were some changes to this in 133, and things are certainly improved, but still not quite right… The GIF shows two text frames, the top with paragraphs, and the bottom as a bullet list. In the top frame… Dragging to select the text never selects the paragraph mark of the preceding line, even if I drag outside the frame border. In the bottom frame… Dragging within the frame border is working correctly, but… Dragging beyond the frame border unhelpfully selects the preceding paragraph mark. Dragging back inside the line does not deselect the preceding paragraph mark, until I am beyond the both bullet and tab stop.

The organisation of preferences is quite bizarre. This recent (lengthy) post covers many of the frustrations!

This does work now in 133, if I follow Dave's advice to set the bullet tab stop to 0, then the next tab stop is correctly used. Thanks. But it seems somewhat counter-intuitive, and I can see it tripping up many new (and infrequent) users. I would simply assume that the bullet tab would take on the characteristics of the first tab in the paragraph rather than have its own tab settings that have their own unusual limitations.

You are right, there is an issue here… Text frames, shapes, images etc do snap to column boundaries. Guides do not snap to column boundaries. This seems like an oversight. Hopefully it can be easily enabled for the next update? @Dave Harris

This feature was added in beta 133,so you should be able to use this method. Check that snapping has the correct options turned on. I think it requires snap to object geometry.

Not that I know of (but I am Windows based).

This is because Alt is Affinity's universal modifier to disable snapping! Instead Ctrl + Drag to duplicate, and snapping will work just fine.

At present the answer is no. There are a number of discussions about this on the forum. Perhaps search for those.

Or drag and drop with Ctrl pressed (pointer changes to show a '+' )

Doesn't seem to be possible right now. Reorganizing would be useful I think. Perhaps the choice to auto-sort (alphabetical) or manual sort. May be even allow folders / tagging as is the intention with Text Styles.

Sorry, got called away from the computer before I'd finished giving a full reply. What @Bad_Wolf says is what I see too: the tooltip is already displaced away from the pointer. Can you give specific examples where the tooltip is covered so that we can compare on our systems? Also which OS are you using?

@Arnaud Mez But Styles are application wide. Create a new Style Category (perhaps called "Strokes") Draw a line and set your preferred line weight, join type, cap type, pressure profile, colour. Create a new style from selection, and rename it to something appropriate ("4pt Black Wobbly") Repeat until you have a library of strokes that you commonly use. These are now available in every document you create, and can be exported / imported to share between devices. To me this is exactly like creating a palette of colours, and I can't really imagine a simpler way for it to work.