VectorCat

when I have two paths to join, it crosses over..in other words, rather than joining both of their right ends, it joins the right end of one path to the left point of the other path. reverse curves helps none at all. How can I instruct AD to join the paths I want in the way I want to join them? Is this impossible in AD? thanks!

ah..most clear..why that change? does the Context dropdown replace it?

mmm...not quite sure what you mean, Dave..Using Context...Fill/Line seems to do it..are you referring to something else? Thank you! Vcat

Is it possible now to control the center of rotation of an object other than the object's geometric center? I don't recall whether that was on the roadmap or not...thank you!

Yes, you understood me correctly and I found what you are talking about..thank you, Since Time Began

I can give a gradient to a stroke alright, but controlling the gradient on that stroke is more elusive. If I use the gradient tool (G) I end up changing the FILL gradient, not the stroke gradient. Can someone clarify the right way to control gradient on a stroke, please? Thank you!

ok..thank you ronnie...hopefully there'll be some instructions forthcoming on this and other Affinity features and tools...

Correct me if I'm wrong..you have to BE in Pixel persona when doing this?

Something I'm not getting here...I can make the new brush using that png but I can't get palettes looking like yours to make the adjustments you make..if I go into pixel persona, my brush is nowhere to be found... Is there another step in there? Many thanks..the brush you made is the bee's knees and just what I'm needing!

...and so it does! thank you, ronniemcbride

Maybe this is how AD is meant to work, but if I have a shape, and place another shape on top which is longer that the first, so that choosing both, then boolean subtract, VISUALLY produces 2 shapes, but I can't isolate one from the other, color them separately, etc.. Is there a way to achieve what I 'm after?

Yeah, I can throw that up later on..I think it was a temporary glitch; I came back later and it worked...no clue why it didn't work, but later did. my instinct was right having the "cutting" shape be on top, tho...

Thank you!

I have a rectangle on top of a larger rectangle and when I have both selected and press the subtract boolean icon, the larger disappears leaving the smaller. My goal is to cut a notch out of the bigger rectangle with the smaller one. Can someone point me in the right...procedural direction? thank you!

Is this possible? Right now, it goes from tall and thin 1 column of tools to 2 columns of tools. can there be an option to have it either? thank you

Well-stated AshTeriyaki I think we can all resonate with what Petar is saying. For myself, I like my XYZ-tool to be 100% focused on XYZ-type tools. A little overlap is good but I don't want that overlap to come at the expense of the core function of that tool. Seems like everyday I'm discovering some new, extremely well-thought-out feature of AD. Well done chaps, indeed!

I have a simple text object with brush strokes inside. When I scale down the text object, I lose the strokes visually; the strokes are still there, but they appear not to scale down with the text. Is there a way around this?

Sorry..couldn't think of a title to neatly wrap this up. Let's say you're making something simple like a waffle menu icon. You take a square, option-drag it to the right, and cmd-J to get more copies the same distance to the right. Then you make the second row. be great if the vertical distance could "look to" the distance horizontally between the first squares you cloned. is this even possible?

Is there a secret to getting a 3-finger drag or swipe to work consistently? sometimes it drags or swipes..sometimes it delineates an area. thank you

I don't see how..don't see gradient fill tools active while I have live (not outlined) type active.. anyone? vcat post script: I now see it; tools became visible as soon as I selected the Gradient tool.

Certainly not, and the way the Dev team have approached AD is clear to me that you're on a vastly superior path.

sweet..

Here's what I'm doing..I have a shape with a gradient fill. To adjust colors of the nodes, I click once on the node, then head to the color wheel.. now, for one of the nodes, - which all began as gray value, and I changed one to blue, and that node - correctly - kept its same gray value, but took on the right amount of blue. Next node, I picked green. However, rather than that node color keeping its gray value, it changed to the full-on green! #1 sounds and feels like the correct behavior. I am using the color picker HSL, triangle in the middle of a color "band"...this band used for selecting hue, the triangle for saturation and luminance.. thoughts?

ah..my bad...I didn't intend to re-walk that ground. there is *so* incredibly much going on with this great application..I can imagine you are quite busy, and I thank you all for your stellar efforts. vc

What I'm talking about here is whether there's a control to govern how much AD will smooth out or "correct" strokes made with the vector brush? Sometimes, even if I draw an expressive thick/thin line, when I lift the pen, the line will be "adjusted" to be of uniform lenght! that ain't no dang fun! any thoughts on controlling strokes behavior when the pen is lifted?