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  1. metajake
    Great to see that you can transform node selections via the transform panel. Not as fluid as having a bounding box with anchor handles around the selection, but it got the job done for me. Thank you Affinity, every day. And thank you for answering your customers needs for advanced features.
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    Thanks, all!
  3. metajake
    Thank you. This is awesome.
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    +2
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    this is really cool
  6. metajake
    @Aammppaa I see! This is a great, alternate (new way for me) to start using Affinity Designer. Thank you so much.
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    Hi all. "Clear Selection" is part of the Undo/Redo stack. Should it be? Why or why not? My scenario why not: I have multiple elements in a layout. I make some changes. I like the changes, but I want to see the previous layout (and I neglected to make my changes to a duplicate layout). My solution (in a typical user experience paradigm) is to Undo my changes, make a copy of all the elements, then Redo the changes and paste my selection (of the elements in their previous layout) next to the revised elements. I reported this as a bug ... ... but @Chris_K deemed it by design. Might anyone on the development staff or otherwise, be willing to offer up a scenario in which "Clear Selection" should be part of the Undo/Redo stack? User @Kal offers some good perspective on why "Clear Selection" should not be part of the Undo/Redo stack.. "undo/redo should be reserved for destructive actions. And sometimes space bar doesn't work [in the case that you want to Clear Selection, just to clearly view your layout] —say, if there is focus on a text field like Swatches > Opacity." Thank you Affinity team, for your incredible software which I use everyday.
  8. metajake
    UP VOTE: add option to disable all tool toggling.
  9. metajake
    Thanks for chiming in, MEB. In which case, I will stand behind my feedback for adding an option to disable "Return to Previous Tool Toggle". I'm embarrassed that I am not able to properly utilize the "Return to Previous Tool" toggle function. But I've been using Affinity for many months now, almost daily. And I still get occasionally tripped up by an unexpected tool, after using a hotkey.
  10. metajake
    In the links that you posted, I do not see a way to solve the problem of: Disable "Return to previous tool". Am I missing the solution for that one problem?
  11. metajake
    From what I see this does not prevent toggling (between the Move Tool and the Text Tool). When I "customize" the Move Tool hotkey to "v" and the "Frame Text Tool" to "t", using either hotkey will still toggle between the Move tool or the Frame Text tool.
  12. metajake
    Regardless of individual perception of this "feature", it remains confusing, jarring and frustrating for many page layout software users. My analogy (which I've explained before https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/56697-type-tool-to-move-tool-hotkey/&do=findComment&comment=289576 ) ... goes something like: If I'm working at my desk, and I reach for my pencil (use hotkey), should I have to look closely to make sure that my pencil is in my hand, and not my pen or scissors? No. In my mind, hotkeys primary purpose is speed. You reduce the speed by requiring me to keep track of which tool is chosen by a single hotkey.
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    Why does Escape leave us with a blinking caret when the left and right arrow also do the same thing. If there's a text highlight, Escape should exit from typing mode, leaving the current text object selected.
  14. metajake
    I just had this explained to me... I was not aware of the difference between Hard Returns and Soft Returns. (a hard return indicates the end of a paragraph, and a soft return is a line break). Hitting Shift + Return does a soft return, and results in the leading consistency that I naively expected (attached image). Thanks again, Affinity!
  15. metajake
    Hello, I don't understand why the leading changes between the different lines in this Text Frame (attached image). Between the first and the second line, the text "ran outside" the bounds of the Frame, and created two lines automatically. Between the second and third line, I hit the return key, creating the third line manually. If I highlight all of the text, the leading is the same (12.4pt in this case). Why is the space between the second and third line different than the space between the first and second line? Thank you!
  16. metajake
    Request: please explain the reason behind the "Tool Toggle" function in Affinity Designer. It the reason, speed and efficiency? (that's the only reason that I can think of) But it doesn't work because, to my knowledge, there is no paradigm in digital (software) or non-digital (by hand) layout design in which "reaching for" a tool, has the possibility of returning one-or-the-other tool. I am interested in understanding the reasoning behind the "Tool Toggle" function, to understand the implications of requesting it be removed or provided optionally, in Affinity Designer. Thank you so much for your excellent software, as well as your customer assistance.
  17. metajake
    @Affinity Please provide an option to disable all tool toggling : D (I love Affinity Designer and Photo. As a 10 year industry graphic designer, they have essentially replaced Illustrator and Photoshop). Please!
  18. metajake
    Vote +1 for this. This was my other feedback... Sometimes, in Designer, I feel like I'm drilled down layers deep, and I'm hitting "esc" 3 times to just deselect everything. No property fields highlighted, no text selected, no children of groups. Give me one button that takes me to a "top level", "non-destructive" state (so that I can slap+hold that spacebar and start moving around my canvas fluidly, like I would in real life)!
  19. metajake
    Even after assigning a different hotkey to the "Move" tool, it still toggles between Move and "Last Used Tool". Not to sound ungrateful, and it's nothing personal, but this Tool Toggling "feature" is annoying and distracting. In real life, if I know exactly where my pencil is, and I reach for it, should I have to look closely at the pencil, and make sure that it's not the paintbrush? No. Hotkeys should function the same way. Reaching for my Move Tool should always give me my Move Tool, and reaching for my Text Tool should always give me my text tool. I think that Affinity is asking too much of their users to expect them to maintain awareness of which Tool they are toggled between. EITHER THAT, OR there should be a much more apparent indication of what tool that I am toggled between. Yes the "Contextual Toolbar" at the very top of the window changes, as well as the "Status" bar at the bottom of the window, but I'm not looking close enough at them to register, fast enough, which Tool I'm using. (But maybe that's just me).
  20. metajake
    the "toggle" "feature" is a problem for me as well, in the same way, @mccluredave1
  21. metajake
    Thanks @haakoo... I didn't quite realize that "V" was a toggle function. This is probably going to save me hundreds of clicks a day.
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  23. metajake
    I wonder if this made it into a version?
  24. metajake
    @MEB Thank you for taking your time to explain this to me! This is the best solution to my problem, in my opinion. Thanks again!
  25. metajake
    Good work, implementing this. Thanks Affinity!
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