Phil K.

The Boolean operator bugs is very frustrating, so I have to jump between vectornator & designer to do something that should be available in Affinity Designer

It has been my experience that they don’t respond in the user forums.

I use Illustrator both desktop and on the iPad, the iPad version isn’t junk, it’s actually pretty decent given that it was released back in October. The boolean operators work consistently unlike Affinity Designers’ boolean bugs. selecting & moving items is easy and intuitive. I used to use Affinity Designer but just got tired of the random bugs in the app, and also grew tired of their lackluster response to fix these bugs. I use the Shapebuilder in Illustrator often enough to justify paying for a CC subscription.

At this point, especially since Adobe Illustrator for iPad has the ShapeBuilder tool, I would suggest just buying Illustrator for iPad. Given the lack of response from Serif, it’s apparent that they are not interested in creating a ShapeBuilder tool for Designer. Maybe they will surprise us, who knows?

5 years?!?

Yes, please add the shape builder tool.

Annoying as well

It is a well known issue that has multiple posts on the forums of users complaining about the lack of precision when selecting objects as well as the inability to move objects once selected.

This app is unusable until you fix the selection/move vs. transform issues.

So much for leaving an AppStore review. Someone already did and the response was disappointing

At this stage of the game the issue has been occurring for at least 4 months, it might be necessary to leave a review on the AppStore for this app. They claim the app to be a high quality precision vector application but they can’t even get a basic fundamental editing feature to work correctly. Maybe a review might wake up Serif to this issue, but I’m not holding my breath.

Still isn’t fixed in 1.6.3.44. 2CC9776D-81A8-423F-A251-B5598B3A4B1F.MP4

doesn’t help with selecting an object. That is an aspect ratio / scaling setting

And again, read my post. If this is a workaround that you feel comfortable with then that's fine. It's not an ideal or even practical workaround for me and others. If you disagree that's entirely up to you. I paid for the app and others have also paid for the app so I don't think that it is out of order for people to voice their frustrations with using the app.

going through steps 1-4 that I described isn’t a workable ‘workaround’ to this problem. Having to unselect an item before moving it is NOT a good workaround to the problem.

Here’s why I say this is not a solution The item has to be in an unselected state initially If you move the item it changes to a transform state. Any tap actions on the item in this state will transform the object. After you move the item you have to unselect it to change it from transform state to the unselected state then attempt to move it again. Repeat 1-4. ad nauseum. If I want to move the same item again, I shouldn’t have to deselect the item first before attempting to move it. If I do not deselect the item after the first move, when I attempt to move the item a second time it will transform instead of moving the item (since it is already in the selected state which favors transforming over moving) Here’s what should happen: select the item move the item to a new position. or transform the item using the handles. unselect the item. The Graphic app selection/move workflow is smooth and seamless. You don’t have to worry about whether the item is currently selected or not just to move it. In the attached video of Graphic you can see that you can move an item by selecting the item and moving it, or you can transform the item by using the handles. Even if the item is currently selected you can move the item without transforming it since the only way to transform the item is by using the handles. 09A99EA0-83D3-4A26-90FB-8325ED3CDEF8.MOV

This is not an acceptable ‘solution’. Selecting and moving objects should be about the easiest thing for a user to perform in a design application. It should work consistently and smoothly. They need to fix this issue.

Doesn’t matter if you pause, the problem still persists (watch how I pause after tapping the line) 6A164AC1-34FA-4653-8DAE-D90BD6CCDACC.MP4

6. We notified the developers and we thought the behavior changed in an update but we’ll let them know that it is still occurring 7. No response. Given the lack of any consistent response from them, I honestly don’t think they care. Which is unfortunate.

Other Posts that describe the problem https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/68106-cannot-select-and-move-an-object/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/63841-ad-how-do-you-drag-move-object/

Here’s a post I made in the Bugs section for Affinity Designer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/68106-cannot-select-and-move-an-object/

Unfortunately I think that this will not get addressed given the lack of any response from Affinity on this issue.

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Again, Any update on this from Affinity?