VectorCat

I have several shapes and I want to move points in the shapes together at the same time, not each by each. How can I select points of different objects to do this?

possible? I scaled up an image, told resolution not enough for 3X, and now I can't scale back, other than by guessing. I'm faced with re-placing the raster image again, and starting all over. if I knew what % I had scaled to, my chore would be vastly quicker and easier to solve. Thank you

I crop my image just so, then I want to scoot the cropped image down to decide which "view" I like. I don't seem able to do this. Is my only option to re-size the crop, move the whole entire object, then size the crop back down again?

yeah, that part I get, but how can I tell Affinity Designer: "Make this object a snapping candidate" ?

OK..thank you for the info..so, after exporting, what do ppl do? head to the finder and manually append ".jpg" or ".png" ?

Is this deemed unnecessary?

Are AD and AP spoze to be able to use each other's documents? Isn't that one of the bennies of using them together? Just tried to place an image I made in AP into an AD document. No soap! Guess there's more needs to be done on my part?

when I'm done wtih a tool/box whatever, most softwares allow that pressing "Enter" means, "Yeah..ok I'm done. close the box." can this be enabled in AD/AP also? THa nks!

can you enable the crop tool to be grabbed/resized anywhere, and not just at the control handles? this is a pretty basic feature of crop tools and it does wonders for workflow speed, not forcing user to scootch around the document looking for a handle..you can do it right there, while you re looking at what your cropping to. Thanks

right now, AD pumps them out with @2x, @3x at the end of the name. I like to end these with _280, _560, _840 so that I know what the pixel size is of at least one of the dimensions. Possible to enable this kind of naming of exported slices?

ah..I see... I don't recall if force alignment was activated first, or not, but sounds like anything we create needs that activated from the beginning and I'm concerned about this sort of constricting free-flowing artwork.. am I over thinking or not viewing this tool correctly?

....unless.... in a burst of enlightenment, I realized that I could simply start with the 3x size, hit export and expect AD to export them in descending order of size.. should have thought of that in the first place...

Doing a workflow test..when I export slices, the size on my artboard is assumed by AD to be my 3x size, and the 2x, and 1x exports are smaller than 3x. how can I tell AD that what's on the art board is the 1x size, and to export 2x and 3x as larger? thank you!

clip attached. any thoughts as to why? thanks! slice-size-change.mov

OK..that is very good to know..thank you...so, it sounds like AD "knows" the pixel density of all placed assets, and doesn't merely save a local (in-document) copy of the scaled-down copy for 1x.

OK..so I think of my document as 216 dpi, any placed raster images must come in at the 3x size, and I scale them down to what I need for 1x, so that upon exporting 1x, 2x, 3x each resulting graphic will have the pixel density needed for that size?

if I create a piece of art including some raster image, intended for the web and I am ready to export to 1x, 2x and 3x, does AD "know" or draw from the source image in the Finder when it exports, or does it use the placed art as the source for pixel density? What I am thinking about is that raster art needs to have enough resolution for the 3X and 2X versions, so it almost makes me think I should work down...work at 3X, then export 2x and 1x making any sense? can anyone shine a light on this for me or for others?

I haven't explored this yet at all but I suspect the relevant tools may be in the Export Persona, the slice tool... Has anyone yet sent an image of any large size (ie, "feet" in length/width) and sliced up for tiling..anyone worked out this workflow? Thank you

I'm about to strap in for about 4-6 hours' worth of image preparation headed for the web. I need the output graphics to be exactly, precisely the size I make them at, not a pixel or 3 more. Affinity Design still is changing dimensions on me! I can understand if it's a text object, but the shapes I'll be working with today are squares. Is there something I can do to get AD to keep the sizes of my shapes without my doing any goofy workarounds? Else, exporting 1x, 2x, 3x, I will have a lot of very tedious cleanup to do..or find another workflow solution. Thanks for any clues! vcat

can someone explain in the alighn pallete, there's a check for auto-distribute, yet nothing happens until I click the distribute horizontally icon? can someone please explain the logic behind this? doesn't "auto" mean, "does it by itself?"

ah..ok..glad you know about it..thanks!

um..can this get fixed? photo's layer palette "group layers" looks identical to Designer's add new layer icon! That's like..uh..hello? doesn't even imply "group" it's just a dog ear page! So, the convention established in designer is that that icon means "Add a layer" the way icons help us is that they mean the same thing and they save there being a little explanatory text paragraph saying what they do. if you have 1 icon that means different things, the User is dumped off at the side of the road to confusion.

...and then what?

I get the current tool: corner radius will be X-percentage of the object's size. make object larger wtih resize handle, and the corner radius increases to remain that percentage. What if we want our corner radius to stay what it is, regardless of how large the object gets?

Can we make items be snappable? if so, how's this done? thanks!