[Crop Tool improvements]

On 5/23/2023 at 6:08 PM, Antricion said:

• While this works great when rotating a full image, I have some issues with that if I try to rotate after cropping. As the cropped away part still exists, I sometimes want to re-adjust the rotation after cropping, e.g. when I didn't see it before, or didn't get it exactly. Now rotating re-crops the image, even though it is not needed, since enough of the previous image exists to perform the rotation without additional cropping. Could that autocrop on rotation be made optional?

Here to second this. Pretty unfortunate bug.

 

[Option+Shift Drag (Coming from Illustrator)]

+1 As @cinemachine pointed out, Affinity apps are the outlier here. It would be nice to customize the modifiers to match AI, PS, Sketch, Figma, etc.

I'd also like a more consistent approach to constraining proportions. I shouldn't have to think about whether I'm grabbing a side or corner handle (and thus whether I have to shift-constrain or not); I just wanna grab whichever's closest. Consistency means I can work off muscle memory which means I can work faster.

[Keyboard shortcut for "rename layer or group"]

+1

[Gradient Overlay Scale Y Not Working on Ellipse]

Anyone else seeing this?

1. Draw Ellipse

2. Apply a radial gradient overlay.

3. Attempt to Scale Y

Expected: Gradient scales as it does in the Layer Effects preview
Results: Scale Y does nothing.

[Select next Layer up/down keyboard shortcut?]

+1

Toggling quickly between layers is super helpful for documents with lots of overlapping layers. Please consider it.

[Dashed Strokes Break When Expanded. Why?]

16 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Try applying the stroke to a shape like a rounded rectangle or even an ellipse and then change the Align: to inside and outside to see the effect it gives and this will shed some light on the dashed lines behaviour when expanding.

I can understand (a little) if I try to think like a robot. But to me, a human, it's as simple as "what you see is what you (should) get."

 

I never would have predicted AD's output in this case. 

 

[Dashed Strokes Break When Expanded. Why?]

5 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

You have it set to Align: Outside, set it to Align: Centre

 

(Facepalm emoji)

 

Seems like this shouldn't matter but I clearly have a different mental model than AD.

 

Thanks.

 

 

[Dashed Strokes Break When Expanded. Why?]

3 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

got an example file?

 

 

See attached 

Stroked Line.afdesign

[Dashed Strokes Break When Expanded. Why?]

Why does my dashed line change when I expand it?

 

 

[Why Do Shapes Import Like This? How To Fix?]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

I have Illustrator CC 2018 and could convert it for you if it would help, maybe worth a try?

 

Incredibly generous offer, but I'm looking to be "taught how to fish" so I can handle this myself in the future.

Cheers though!

[Why Do Shapes Import Like This? How To Fix?]

19 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Do you have an example document we could look at?

 

See attached for something I made quick in Sketch using the "union" function on two overlapping shapes.

 

19 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Also, have you tried exporting from Illy as PDF and using illustrator 8 as the compatibility option and importing into Affinity?

 

Unfortunately the illustration was supplied by the client and I no longer subscribe to AI.

 

Thanks,
Jeff

Combined Shape2.eps

[Why Do Shapes Import Like This? How To Fix?]

Why does AD import "complex" shapes like this, with a solid rectangle masked in a custom shape? And is there a way to mass-unmask?

 

My imported illustration (AI) has dozens of layers that imported like this (it would be insane to manually fix all of them) and it's preventing me from full-vector re-export.

 

Is there a workaround for this?

[Request: Support for Click+Drag New Layer While Another Layer is Already Selected]

When I have a layer selected I'd like to be able to click+drag to simultaneously select and move a different layer. Currently select and move have to be separate actions.

 

Thanks for considering it.

[[AD] Strokes scale with object + Nested objects]

This is happening to me as well, and find it unintuitive and tedious to work around. +1 for improvements to this function.

[Request: Command+Click That Selects Entire Compound Shape]

I think command+clicking a compound shape should select the entire compound shape rather than an individual curve.

 

In other words, I think there should be a one-click solution to selecting a compound path that doesn't require the layer panel.

 

Thanks for considering it.

[Type tool to Move tool Hotkey]

3 hours ago, metajake said:

I think that Affinity is asking too much of their users to expect them to maintain awareness of which Tool they are toggled between.

Agree. I want my hotkey to function the same every time. Don't punish me for hitting V while unknowingly already on the Move tool.

Same with escaping the text tool. I just wanna hit "esc" once and be done with it. I don't wanna have to be aware of the text-selection status.

 

[select overlaped layer using mouse]

Agree, this is a problem to be solved. The layer palette should be a last resort.

[Request: Scrollable Left/Right Studios]

I think the left and right studio panels should be scrollable, rather than adaptive to application height.

The current expand/collapse-panel behavior is jumpy and requires too much precision. When you expand a tool, another collapses, making it hard to predict where a tool will be based on context (or where it'll jump when you open it). Then to reopen the newly collapsed panel you have to find and click a tiny hit target. 

It would be more efficient if panels stacked in a scrollable panel. Tools could remain expanded, exactly where you left them, at most a flick away. We've already lost far too many clicks!

This would also address my concerns here:

Thanks for considering this!

[Request: Ability to marquee-select nodes in a compound shape]

2 hours ago, owenr said:

Unfold the Compound in Layers panel to access and select its members.

Activate Node Tool if it's not already active - the nodes of all the selected members will be available to marquee select.

 

 

Nice! Thanks for the tip.

 

It would be great if we could speed up the "select layers" step. E.g., in Sketch, keying "enter" on a compound shape is the equivalent of selecting AD layers, but much faster.

[Request: More compact "Character" Studio]

And to be clear, this is a 2-minute redesign that's pretty ill considered. Basically I just want to maximize my "studio" space.

[Request: More compact "Character" Studio]

45 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Why don’t you simply collapse the sections (or close the drawers, in your terminology) that you don’t need, by clicking on the grey triangle against each one?

 

I do. I'm arguing that even the collapsed menus take up too much space.

[Request: More compact "Character" Studio]

I'd like a more compact character studio so I can fit more controls on screen.

One idea is to tuck all the advanced typography functions into a single drawer.

Thanks for considering it!

[Request: Ability to marquee-select nodes in a compound shape]

I would like to marquee-select nodes from all paths that comprise my compound shape. It seems I'm currently limited to the destructive "convert to curves" function if I want to achieve this.

Thanks for considering it.

[Sticky Settings .... pain in the ...]

On 11/29/2017 at 3:35 PM, nwhit said:

And color swatches for many, many people should have a default of colors, not greys. 

Agree. It's always two extra clicks to get to Document Swatches.

[Problem with UNDO]

+1 I don't find this function helpful.