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    @Peter Werner Publisher has all the usual grid options plus baseline grid. View > Grid View > Grid and Axis Manager View > Baseline Grid Manager Perfectly possible to set up a rotated grid, and then snap text / picture frames etc to it. However the Grid seems to be document based rather than per Page / Master Page. Shapes, and Picture Frames can be created at the rotated angle (create along a line by holding rightmouse during creation) but this doesn't seem to apply to Artistic Text / Text Frames / Placing images. So… +1 for Snapping to Column boundaries. +1 for creating everything along a line.
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    @Affinity Fan Boy You can resize columns on page by dragging the gutter between columns. For more control open View > Studio > Text Frame
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    You already can, in all Affinity apps… View > Dock Tools
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    @siwyjaszyThanks for the clarification. I don't have Illustrator so wasn't aware of the specifics. I believe that there are significant improvements coming in 1.7 that relate to node manipulation and selection, so there may be something that will help with this. For example…
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    Ctrl + A (standard keypress for select all) will select all nodes on a path. Is this not adequate for your scenario?
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    Always worth searching the forum before you post...
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    Great job. Love the interactive models. Looking forward to part two.
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    Want to rotate an object at 38.8deg by 15/30/45/60deg? Click 'Reset Selection Box' on context toolbar, and rotate away. Affinity has the best of both worlds
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    Enjoying this new photo / vector experimentation.
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    I really hope the UI gets some love in the next round of updates (possibly too late for 1.7, but should definitely be on the cards for 1.8) I find the functionality of Affinity is great (for my needs) but am regularly frustrated by inconsistencies / limitations of the UI.
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    @petrpastor They are scheduled to release a beta by the end of August, not the retail product. Since they have clearly had test versions running for many months (see Twitter and video presentation) it seems reasonable that they can open it to beta testing any time they want.
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    I really hope that this is extended across the range so that all combinations are supported, rather than only supporting Designer and Photo inside Publisher.
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    But Alt specifically disables snapping?! That is its function throughout Affinity. If you are trying to align a duplicate then you should be using Ctrl + drag.
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    Yes you are correct that to snap the nodes of an odd polygon you have to use the Node Tool > Select All > Drag approach which is, I agree, a PITA. It isn't snapping to a guide, as there isn't a guide on the artboard, but it is snapping to horizontal, by holding shift to constrain the rotation. See this example using the rectangle technique to align two nodes of an odd polygon to be horizontal… And again I agree that this isn't as convenient as the 2 clicks you can perform in Illustrator, but it does work. Perhaps this shouldn't be a question, but rather a feature request?
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    We've asked about this before…
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    I have no issue snapping a rotated rectangle to a guide, simply by dragging it to the guide! I can snap rotation centers to guides, simply by dragging it to the guide! Here is a way to straighten your PDF scans… Place your image to be straightened. Draw a rectangle over the image, aligned to the edge you are trying to straighten NOTE: Hold rightmouse (on PC) to draw a rotated rectangle along a line. In Layers Panel drop your image inside the rectangle. Straighten the rectangle, holding Shift, so that it snaps to horizontal. In Layers Panel drag image out of the rectangle. Delete rectangle. Alternatively: If you own Photo, the crop tool has a straighten function. https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/SizeTransform/cropping.html
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    Looks great in motion
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    Has been discussed before, a few times…
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    First thing to mention is that in Affinity a Compound is a very specific type of object (a live Boolean) - I don't think you are dealing with a Compound in this sense. I think you have a Curves object (some text which has been converted to curves), and you want to duplicate a letter, right? You could… Select the Curves object Divide to break into all the separate letters Group, so that the existing text remains intact. Now you can Control + Click to select an individual letter and Copy Paste at will. Note: For letters with holes (like the A and R) you will end up with 2 Curve objects (singular) - probably best to Subtract the holes to get a single Curves object (plural). Note: i and j will have a separate dot, which you should probably Add to the body to get a single Curves object. Hope that helps, as I can't think of a better method, other than finding the original font!
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    There are many way to do this depending upon the exact situation. Can you link to the Photoshop tutorial that you wish to mimic? Also look at this post for other suggestions…
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    Designer is certainly capable of doing the composition that you describe. When you import your photo it will show as an Image in the layers panel. Many pixel based operations will require you to Rasterize the image first, so that it shows as Pixels in the Layer Panel. Selection brush to isolate the elements you want to keep then Refine to tidy things up. There are of course additional features in Photo that you may appreciate such as the Liquify Persona, or Focus Stacking, but that all depends on what you want to achieve. I'd suggest playing in Designer, then if you need more, try the 7 day trial of Photo.
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    The workaround is to draw a rectangle between the existing guides (which will snap), then add the new guide (which will now snap to the center of the rectangle), and finally delete the rectangle. If you use the Guides Manager as @Carl123 suggested you can get Affinity to do the maths for you.
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    There have been similar requests in the past… Allowing more flexibility with colour panels would certainly be nice.
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    A roughen path tool has been discussed before, indeed it sounds like one is / was in development at some point…
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    Update: Bins has received some updates since I last posted in this thread (current version 1.5.0.948) I am happy to report that there is no longer a conflict between Bins and Affinity products. Yay! Best of both worlds.
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