Ed B

Hello Garry P and Thomas O. Thank you for taking the time to provide an excellent discussion of the topic. I hope that what you two have so generously taken the time to write will continue to be easily accessible for others who might have the same question. Your suggestions for simplicity and a visual-factored approach confirms the conclusion that I had come to. The current project's fundraising goal, purpose, methodology, and reporting is very simple and clear, and the progress indicator will be equally straightforward. FWIW, what I was trying to figure out originally was a way that updating donation data as it comes in could be immediately, easily and accurately be reflected. Cheers.

Thanks for the response, Callum. I thought that maybe since Affinity Designer already has so much math built into it (vectors are known as math to the computer), and since the math that SketchAndCalc uses is a known thing ("The math behind SketchAndCalc is called the shoelace formula or shoelace algorithm. It also goes by the name of Gauss’s area formula and the surveyor’s formula"), that perhaps there could be a way to fill an object beginning at a given axis up to a certain percentage of the entire object. Would it be reasonable to add that to the feature request list?

Fundraising campaigns are often accompanied by a graphical image —traditionally a thermometer (a kind of vertical bar chart)— that is progressively filled up as donations are received. I'm wondering how to take this to the next level in Affinity Designer with irregular shaped images instead of a thermometer —images such as vehicles, airplanes, household objects, map outlines, etc.— and filling them with a mathematically-based formula that works based on the calculated area of the image rather than just eyeballing it by appearance. I've looked for an app to do this but no success. (There is an area calculation service at SketchAndCalc, but it is a subscription service and is just for calculating areas, not for filling them to a specific percentage or amount.)

Our business partners in India are wanting to use the Affinity suite but the lack of adequate Hindi language support is a deal breaker.