mikeswarts

Yep, thanks guys! So much better!

Also affects me in V2 and it is disappointing because I want to use global colors and symbols together.

I would find a find/replace feature for layers (particularly artboard titles) very valuable. Anyone else agree?

I agree that this should be able to be disabled. I change dropbox values when trying to scroll the containing panel. I *never* want to change dropdown values using scrolling. But I'm pretty sure there is no current way to disable it.

I really, really like Affinity software, but I do make a lot of errors because of this little icon, which I can barely understand when I'm looking directly at it. I end up unintentionally changing the aspect ratio of elements (or not), blissfully ignorant until I've already made a bunch of additional changes and I no longer remember what the correct aspect ratio was supposed to have been. Can you please make the visual cue *significantly* more obvious? Update I've made so many mistakes in V2 and I couldn't remember how V1 even looked, so I looked it up. The old indicator was an embarrassment of riches. No wonder I'm so mistake-prone using V2!

Yes! This is also an everyday issue for me exporting from both Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Designer 2. I did not have the problem before version 2. When I click on Export Slices, I frequently get a beach ball and I have to quit are restart the app. Even restarting the app is not fool-proof. I sometimes have to restart 2, 3, or more times to get it working. +1

Thank you, @thomaso!

No, the action is just ignored. Nothing seems to happen.

Until a counter-example is demonstrated, I agree with @thomaso. I believe that when anchoring is enabled on both sides of an axis, the state of the corresponding double arrow (solid or dashed) has no effect. Thanks for everyone's responses.

With the Move Tool active, I selected two text frame objects within the same document. I wouldn’t expect the contextual toolbars to be different, but they are, as shown: I haven’t pinpointed a reproduction procedure. For each, I want the contextual toolbar that allows me to change font-weight and text styles. I will update this post as I learn new details about the problem. In the meantime, if anyone knows a solution, please advise. Thank you!

I’m not an expert on typography, but it made sense to me to have paragraph spacing proportional to font size. I wanted a value of 100% for "Space after", but text styles only supports absolute values. If not a good suggestion, what would you suggest in return? Thanks!

Yes, it doesn’t work for me. Does it work for you? Update: I think I figured out what causes the feature to fail to apply to non-text objects. If the object was copied and pasted in from another document in which the object was filled by global color in that document. Seems like a bug because I obviously want to make it a global color in the current document.

In addition, there are many times where “From Fill As Global” doesn’t work with objects. Reproduction is complicated, but it isn’t rare in my workflow. The work around is to quickly make a dummy object, get its color with the color picker, and then select “From Fill As Global” on the new object. That’s always worked.

"Add to Swatches…" > "From Fill As Global" doesn’t work for text frames or artistic text. I can create a swatch from a text object, but not a global color.

Are these constraints identical or is there a subtle difference of some kind?