[Blending shapes]

Its 2022. No sign of a blend tool. Doh.

[Drag-Selecting vector points]

11 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I’m aware that you’ve indicated that it’s just an example, but in this particular case you can simply select all of the boxes and move the bottom centre adjustment handle up or down.

Right. Bad example. But you get my drift.

[Drag-Selecting vector points]

Just now, j.king said:

You can still round corners after Converting to Curves by using the Corner Tool.

I know, but that's not my point.

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

11 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Note: I don’t know what a “sub-selection tool” is so I can’t advise further on that. Maybe you could start a new thread giving details of what you want to do and you might get some good answers.

This kind of explains what I mean. 

[Drag-Selecting vector points]

Thanks, but that would require me, to change the rectangle objects to curves. This is "destructive" from an object oriented point of view. If I had corner rounding parameters set, these would be fix after turning the boxes into "curves".

So, no, there is no such thing as a sub-selection tool. In Illustrator this would the the white arrow.

[Drag-Selecting vector points]

I cannot figure out how to drag-select vector points of separate vector objects simultaneously. There seems to be no sub-selection tool in Designer.

E.g. I have 10 boxes aligned next to each other. Now, I just want to select the bottom 2 points of each box with one drag-selection. Impossible, right?

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

Okay, finally go it. The checkbox was checked from the beginning and it still scaled the content. I had to un- and re-check it. Jeez.

You should be able to use a key-modifier to switch to a sub-selection tool and just select whatever object you want. This workflow is unbelievably cumbersome.

Thanks a bunch for all the help! And sorry for venting.

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:

Did you have the problem layer selected when you unchecked that box?

Yes, I did. That checkbox only shows, if you have the mask selected.

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

While using the Move Tool, with your clipping mask selected, check Lock Children in the Context Toolbar – see attached image.
If you cannot see the Context Toolbar then use menu “View → Show Context Toolbar”.

It's still not working. Such a basic thing. Sorry, it's frustrating, coming from 20 Years+ Illustrator experience.

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Click on the mask's icon in the layers panel. That should select only that layer. Now use the move tool to get the bounding box and use the tool to enlarge or shrink only the mask area.

Thanks. Tried that. It does scale the content, an image in this case.
 

[Modify Vector Clipping Mask without touching it's contents]

How can I modify the clipping mask without affecting it's contents? For the life of me, I cannot find any information as to how simply widen the mask (e.g.) without widening the masked content. This is basic stuff.
 

[Copying data into tables]

This still seems to be fubar. I cannot paste cells from google docs nor numbers to tables in Affinity publisher.
This is such a basic feature. Hard to believe, this is still not tackled.

[Select entire Group directly on canvas?]

Oh, I seem to have mixed up layers and groups.

Sorry, guys, I am still recovering from Illustrator blindness.

btw. Designer for Mac.

 

Thanks for all the quick replies! Much appreciated.

[Select entire Group directly on canvas?]

Is it somehow possible to select groups on the canvas with the move tool? It always selects a single group member.

It looks like there's no other way than to go via the layers panel.

[Reference point for e.g. mirroring]

It would be very useful to be able to set a reference point when mirroring objects.

[Alignment of anchor points]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

Align to what? The bounding box of the shape, some arbitrary reference to other nodes in the shape, something else?

To all selected points in reference to the points themselves. Illustrator can do that, it behaves exactly the same as if aligning objects.

[Alignment of anchor points]

And why would the align tool not just align 2 selected points of a shape?