Markus Allen

I am tracing over artwork I am developing for my own typeface. And some symbols require a "pivot"... like this symbol: @ At the bottom-right of the lowercase-looking letter "a", the circle "pivots". Is there a short to pivot when tracing these symbols with the pen tool?

Yes, I see the node tools... but I have no idea on which one to use - tried them all without any luck.

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to do the same on my iPad?

Thank you for this!

I am designing a font. Instead of creating a new document for each letter, I would like to design it once on a single "canvas". Now: My font software requires one .svg at a time... one for each letter. Question: can I select a letter and only export that one letter from Designer? If so, can you point me in the right direction?

Thank you SO much for this. This worked 100%! No one could help me in the past on this. These settings should be default.

I hope an update makes this easier. Honestly, it is a bit frustrating. I wind up using the "Transform Studio" to make a simple move. To stretch or rotate, I should have my finger (or pencil) on or near the handles. Everywhere else on the screen should help me move my graphic - thus the apt name "move tool". With that said, still lovin' Affinity Designer on my iPad!

Whenever I use the move tool (with my finger or Apple Pencil), I accidentally stretch my images. Is there a better way to select an image and move it without stretching it?

Earlier this summer, I moved my entire content-creation "empire" from my MacBook Pro to my iPad Pro 12.9" (with Apple Pencil and Bluetooth keyboard). It was the best move ever. I make YouTube videos on the fly - videos shot using FilmicPro... videos edited in Luma Fusion... thumbnails shot with Halide... voiceover recording in Ferrite Recoding Studio... popup graphics using Affinity Designer... video script created on SimpleMind (mind mapping app). My "toy" makes me a full-time income. I have been waiting for this moment for a LONG LONG time. And later this year, I will install a NAS file drive into my home router/internet connection - allowing me to backup/sync files from anywhere in the world. For when I am not online, I will use Western Digital's Wifi external storage. The only complaint I have about the iPad Pro is copy/paste. I do wish Apple would fix that problem. It is still dicey. This setup I have is FAR cheaper (and better) than any laptop/desktop alternative. So this is not an expensive toy for me. I remain in awe of how amazing my iPad Pro setup is. My dream has come true.

Anyone from Affinity know this answer?

Curious: Is creating a split/side-by-side view app feature hard to pull off... too memory intensive... something else? Is there a reason apps choose not to offer multitasking?

I am a user of both Affinity products and Luma Fusion (video editing on iPad). And at the Luma forum, I saw this post that Affinity is not compatible with Luma Fusion when trying to multitask: https://forums.luma-touch.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7112#p21835 Is this a bug? Or might this be a feature in a future release?

Interesting. Thanks for the link. This is probably Apple's least useful function ever.

Some days, I open my iPad Pro and see an alarm-clock icon within the Affinity Designer icon. Any ideas what this is all about?

I do not use Dropbox. I use iCloud or Google Files.

I am waiting a bit to update to ios 12. I was a beta tester and there are still some nagging issues I am waiting to be worked out. Discussion about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/

Yes, I see what you mean. Not working on my end now either. I wonder if this is causing some sort of issues and Affinity killed it for now.

I appreciate you, toltec for helping me out with this. About designing it the right size in the first place... I was never taught to design a logo bigger than its final size. Is this common knowledge (if so, I feel stupid).

Thanks for this reply. My entire logo is vector based. In any graphic's program I have used, I have never had to increase the dimensions to get a higher resolution - I would just click the export as .png and it would look great. Are we sure this is not a bug in the software?

Bump for attention... Any ideas on this: can you suggest what export settings I use to produce a cleaner export?

I do not remember, DWright: With that said, can you suggest what export settings I use to produce a cleaner export?

Posted below are 2 cropped images: The first image is a high-quality screen grab (.jpeg) directly from Affinity Designer. The second image is lower-quality .png exported from the same Affinity Designer file. See how it is lower in resolution and does not look sharp? Is there a way to have my exported .png file show up at a higher resolution?

I hope this feature is added soon. I would like to import from this: https://dscape-llc.com/blog/affinity-resources-page By the way: weirdly, we can import styles, but we cannot import gradients.

Hmmm. Weird. Sometimes it automatically resets, sometimes not. I will look for this and report back. I appreciate your help on this.

It looks like Affinity Designer (iPad) remembers my last settings in the fx panel. And that is great. However: Is there an easy way to reset these values to the default settings?