mdharrington

Agreed. I do CAD and 3d and would use this feature almost daily at work to mark up simple photos/sketches without having to go full 3d. Right now I’ll be manually adding them. An angle measurement would also be welcome.

Just attached a sample screenshot of a selection which designer is currently frozen on for the past 10 minutes. About 69,000 objects in this selection

I often get some large PDF isometric blueprints at work for some very large structures. The one I am currently working on has likely 300,000+ separate objects/layers. If I box select say only 10% the computer will lock up and the GUI will read in the 10's of thousands of objects. I have at times with smaller prints, deleted the portions surrounding the structures I need to focus on....the overlapping data and lack of perspective is too overwhelming, so I need to delete all the unnecessary vectors so I can isolate just the parts I need. But this last print is a 5 minute freeze of Designer just box selecting. Furthermore, the control+box select and delete with edit all layers enabled still will leave behind 50-70% of the vectors that would have been inside the marquee box. Is there something I am doing wrong, or should designer select and delete everything contained within the marquee region? I looked into various ways of cropping as well, but everything that would actually crop the vectors appears to flatten and rasterize. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

No, copying the stroke still has the problem....the only solution is remaking the stroke in the current position. Disregard the dog, I had already fixed the issue by remaking the stroke in the current position......this is more of a bug. Try making any kinda curved stroke, flip it horizontally and apply text on path.....it will always be mirrored. It is as if you applied text on path before you flipped it. Affinity should respect the new orientation of the path....but it always looks at creation orientation. Saving and reopening doesn’t help....the only thing that works is remaking the path by hand, as copy pasting it seems to inherit the problem. These types of issues come up in 3D programs...maya for instance has ‘freeze transforms’ which will take an objects position in world space, and bake it into local space....that’s exactly what designer needs in this case.

Been pulling my hair out with text on a path.... Made a little dog....after creation he had to be flipped horizontally to accommodate a logo design. Now no matter what I do....the text on path following a curve on the dog is mirrored. Not upside down....but letters backward. Its almost as if designer does not recognize the new position/orientation of the flipped path.... If I flip the dog back...then apply text on path, it works fine until I again have to flip it. Is there any way to bake the current position of the curve....in maya it would be "freeze transforms" as it seems designer only looks at the original orientation of the curve when it was created. Thanks

Hmm... I'll check that out...thanks for the reply

A little strange topic....but there is goes I am doing some ecommerce....and on the site receive shipping labels from an API that are 8.5x11 Half the page is merely instructions....so i created a few macros that will crop the image, resize it and assign it to a quadrant in a 4 label layout for printing. No problems there. I am making this as easy as possible for my wife (and myself) as she is not as computer savvy as me..... I was wondering if there is a way to open images via the macro (or even batch) and then execute the cropping resizing and moving in 1 click. Ideally you would run a script that would bring up a browser for multiple images and it would be done in 1 click. I couldn't work out how to incorporate the opening of the multiple images into a macro....is this possible, or am I restricted to opening each image and running the macro separately. Thanks

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thanks for those resources....appreciate the effort I didnt take resolution into account at all during the initial design...and on export noticed how much detail was lost...so i redesigned accordingly. I am shooting for good quality at the 2x resolution (120x120) as 1x seems only on iphone 3 and lower and 2 gen ipad and lower....

Thanks for the reply.... I was more thinking of an in-document rasterization....for instance have a live vector icon, but embedded and rasterized to 12x120 so as when zoomed in 100% I could judge the details at that pixel size, rather than have the infinite resolution of the vectors. Then make live adjustments to the vector shape to suit. Not really sure if that is possible...but there is a lot about Designer I don't know. Right now I am exporting through slices and re-importing to another document.

I think I have this sorted....I just wanted a sanity check To view a pixel-pixel check of a IOS icon for an iphone 6 for instance...the icon should be 120x120 viewed over a 750 x 1334 background....does that sound right? Also is there a way to non-destructively rasterize to this size in document for preview? Or is it a matter of just export import every time? Thanks

Incredible wow....looks like a labour of love Just starting out with AD...and I would pretty much assume you've mastered the pen tool after this

Windows... thanks for the tip...I'll look at rasterizing as well.

I have a product label printing template, that has 52 separate labels, and I have 4 versions of each label...so 208 separate groups each composed of maybe 4 vector layers and 4 text layers each.... so over 1600 layers in total!!! Needless to say performance is a little slow when I have to disable certain rows for printing. My question is...would it be better to rasterize the layer groups? Or are the vector layers lightweight enough? Thanks