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AFAIK Affinity Designer Desktop is not designed to work for touch like using gestures and all that, but I might be wrong. To look at my myself I like that it's not touched based, because I work with a Wacom tablet and the first thing I do is turn touch stuff on a tablet off if it has that. But that might be just my personal taste. There is an ipad version of Designer though, which obviously is made especially for iPad. I'm not sure, but maybe that software got the zoom and all gestures you're after?

BTW related to this for future reference: The Tool Handle Size option in the preferences, which is nice!, is scaling the shape-handles, node-, corner- and probably some more tool-handles, but not the crop-tool handles:

As a designer and webdeveloper myself I don't agree with you at all. Designer is very well suited for webdesign and even has responsive capabilities which are pretty unique I say. If you export to PDF you don't need to have a rasterized output. You might check your export settings and make sure you export everything to vectors instead. And don't use raster-tools inside the software. Than your developer can in fact get everything he needs: hex color codes, sizes and everything. And if you export directly to svg he might even use the svg directly inside the website, which is even faster. And what developer can open up (and measure) a vector graphic anyway without vectorsoftware? He just needs 50 euros and can open up your design... Most companies I worked for or together with even have a full Creative Cloud subscription per employee, so for all designers AND developers in the company, to exchange files between each other. Which is an incredible amount of money per year, so compare that to a one time buy (per this amount of time) for a developer instead. And if you still don't want him to have vector-software to do his job; just add hex codes, sizes and everything as text in your design document, like being done by a lot of webdesigners for ages. But I'd say just buy and use Designer as a viewer. Why build new software for it? It can do everything a developer needs and could wish for to understand your design for implementation, and it's still only 50 euros once. Or even if you're a freelancer and want to work with some developer not using Designer and not even having some vector software (not even using inkscape which is even free): give him a Designer install for free, you pay for his install so you can work together and you just add half an hour to an hour more to your bill to pay for the Designer install. You happy because you can deliver a .afDesigner file, developer happy because he gets free payed software and wants to work with you over and over again, customer happy because you are so flexible and great to work with and the job went so well, because the exchanging of files went so fluent. Problem solved.

Indeed. It's in fact a bargain, even if you're poor. Some people seem to have forgotten the real price of software and just don't understand the crazy amount of time, effort and passion developers, ui-designers, testers, consultants and what not put on software to create it so you can work faster and make more money with these tools. Great professional software could easily cost hundreds to thousands of euros in a shop. And it used to be like that too for a long time. It has years of experience put inside it making you work so much faster you earn the money back in no time on the job. But some people in the age of 'open source', free apps (actually making money by using or selling your data) and dollar-apps for your iPhone or Android device, seem to have forgotten the real cost and value production software and compare real value software with buggy, but free, open source tools. I think it's amazing Affinity makes this stable, performant and highly productive and professional software for only 50 euros and I'm very surprised if people are really this picky about this price to be honoust. To me that's a lack of understanding what it takes to create it and what makes it stand out above the 'just not right'-software out there.

Yes it's very informative. I should look more often on it. I know about the Assistant Manager in the software, but never really invested time to get to know it better. But it's a pretty clever concept which is obviously well thought through and a great way to make software help you while still letting users switch automatic behaviour off in case they don't like it. Pretty great thinking and it's making the software more flexible. I like the idea they bundled these automatic behaviour things in one place, other than putting it all inside the settings on random panels, like some other software does. I'm sure it's a matter of time there will be more options added to it to iron out those inconsistencies you're talking about.

1) Great! I didn't know ctrl was used to temporarly activate the node tool when using the corner tool. That's good to know! But than ctrl-A would make even more sense to be able to do at that point and is technically not conflicting with just a ctrl-drag. 2) I didn't know that using the corner tool automatically converts the shape to a curve, and understand you expect a warning of some sort (no popup please! just some message somewhere in the interface would be better). But I don't really mind either. It makes sense to me corners aren't possible on sometimes complex shapes with all kind of properties and most of the time my output is curves anyway. 3) I don't use the Corner Tool to create circles. Only in this example video I did that. Otherwise I would probably have picked a circle to mask. The screenshot taken from the profiledata of @Sean P just happened to have a photo as a circle. In my work this week I used this workflow to round corners to fit rounded corners inside a screenshot. So I could add a soft dropshadow to the crop that fits the cropped screenshot. Yes, I could start cropping with a rounded rectangle tool, but it wouldn't be that much simpler. I think it may be harder to use for this usecase. But the tip about converting to curves first is actually very useful to have a better workflow and avoid ctrl-a not working! With this help my workflow would be now: Press C to switch to the crop tool (custom shortcut) and crop the image with adjustments in higher zoomlevels While stayling zoomed in I select the created mask-layer from the layers panel Press ctrl+enter to convert to curves (while still being zoomed in) Press the C again to toggle to the Corner tool (which is toggling because Designer has two 'C'-keystrokes for two different tools, so toggles between the two. pretty handy!!) Ctrl+A to select all nodes of the crop-mask (now working, because the rectangle mask is converted to curves) Fill in the radius value in the top bar which would probably fit the rounded corner in the raster image and while still zoomed in adjust it to fit the best Done! So your comment was very helpful to improve my workflow @Aammppaa and educative because I learned new keystrokes. Thanks for helping and letting me know!

Yes, I got the same feeling about it

Yes! that's great! Using the same codebase for all three programs to make it possible for us to keep on working in the same file with all three programs and their own expertises is such a great idea and such a timesaver. It makes everything so much more flexible to switch between applications to get the best interface and tools for each stage and still applications are seperated to keep interfaces clean. Best of both worlds to me and no need to compromise by importers or whatever. Great decision! I love it!

After working with Designer on a daily basis for over a year now, I Just heard about a noice-feature (which is nice to have btw), but never would have found it in the interface until now I found this thread. So thanks for this! I agree this feature is way too hidden and I would never expect clicking that little colorcircle would change the whole slider into something completely different. Great UI work in this thread here to change the UI layout to show both sliders instead! That would definitely help others to find the noice sooner than I / others did!

Hi @Sean P, I wanted to add a 'thank you' icon on your reaction, but for some odd reason I get this one again: cannot add more reactions today. Don't understand why, because today I only pasted 1 single comment and 1 or 2 likes I believe. Do we have some week maximum or something? Anyway, thanks for your reaction. Looking forward to the fix!

It's indeed a shape object. When just using a rectangle and than pick the corner tool ctrl-A isn't working indeed, but it is working when converted to curves. Ctrl-A not working is problematic in the following workflow I have to quickly crop and round screenshots of screencontrols: Like the video below: paste a raster image from the clipboard use the vector crop tool to crop the image select the created mask (created by the vector crop tool) select the corner tool to create rounded corners TRY TO CTRL-A (but it doesn't work), so we need to zoom out first, just to select all the 'nodes') round the corners. In the video I accidentally round the corners in the viewport because I needed to zoom out anyway because ctrl-a wasn't working, so it wasn't a problem. But normally I want to stay zoomed in instead to be able to see the result of the new rounded corners as set in pixel values in the top bar, to see if they fit the current pasted rastergraphic, so I need the inputbox on top to enter the radius values in pixels. Without ctrl-A we need to zoom out to select all 'nodes' and zoom back in to adjust the corner value. So ctrl-A would make the whole workflow a lot more efficient and less time consuming when having to 'edit' a lot of screenshot-pastes like I have in my project at the moment. Hope my explanation makes sense corner-tool-when-wanting-to-use-ctrl-a.mp4

I agree. I searched on it, but couldn't find any about this. Thanks for your finds.

I agree. Next time I'll copy the membername, put it in some serif-font in some software to see the 'real' characters and type it the right way on the forum.

No way.. you are kidding me. that was it... Still a little bit odd, because not only did I have this with several different members here (which unfortunetely I don't remember which ones), but also I copied the name from his profile several times and tested triggering the system by removing the last character and retype it. For that last part: obviously the system only gets triggered on a @, which makes sense. But I wonder what the problem with the other members was.... would they all have used an I in their names where I would expect an L in lowercase? Funny though Thanks for helping me out @Patrick Connor

Alright, I just found a button that resets all styling for the selected object to a 'default' setting (which we can obviously fill ourselfs with the blue button on the left next to it). Funny how I never used thisone before and wasn't aware of it... eventhough it was so prominent in view all that time. It's not really what I'm after, because this 'resets' everything, so the colors too, but it's definitely a helpful button!

But I would expect the @ functionality to always work in comments because members like @Alfred are showing up in whatever thread I comment on using the @ auto-list. AFAIK

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/

Alright @Alfred, I was just about to react to JoelSP in another thread here: and that is obiously one of those names that's unreachable with @ . After typing @ and the exact characters the name never shows up in the list and after finishing typing it will never be recognized and blue marked on the forum as a valid member-address. Not even in the thread he started himself

Well, it will be alright. No worries. But if these buttons are gonna startup Photoshop and Illustrator instead I would definitely file a bug here if I were you, hahaha

Keep breathing Yes, they will work with the first release of Publisher, as Serif says.

It's just amazing how far Serif service goes... at 21:50h uk-time at night...

Don't know a name now, had the problem these days a few times, but can't remember the exact names anymore. Did some different posts. I'm gonna keep track of it now and let you know if I know.

I appreciate your attempts to help @Alfred. For some reason you never seem to have experienced the issue of not having the name in the list of the person to address. Which is great for you For some reason I had it several times now. But at least most of the usernames work

Indeed. This is not a bug, but switched off in the beta.

Welcome to the other side 1) Yes there is. At least in Designer you could create as many artboards as you like and you even have an artboard tool letting you size and move artboards around. There are also pretty handy features to create an artboard around a selection and other useful features to create artboards. I have photo too, but use Designer way more often, so don't know if Photo has artboards too, but both programs are based on the same codebase, so probably Photo has artboards too somewhere. There are also pretty great features to export artboards to files too btw. 2) I never imported Photoshop styles into Affinity, but I see it's possible to import *.ase palette-files at least. And import brushes from *.abr files. I don't know if it's possible to import styles directly from Photoshop. In the Affinity styles panel there's no import for styles other than Affinity fileformats as far as I can see. Not sure how well all these import works, maybe other people on the forum could help you with that.