[How to select text that's "outside" the text box handles area?]

What is the idea behind having text that is in a box with other text, but which appears below the text box handles?

 

It is very difficult to select this text. You must first select the box above, then you can get to the text you want.

 

Why not make this text more directly accessible to selection?

 

Is there an underlying reason for the way it is now?

[Could pressing Return close boxes with "Close" button on them?]

Or, perhaps there is a different rationale in the way it works now..is there?

 

Thank you!

[Tab adjustment "burps" and resets]

holding down up arrow on the tab setting to increase the tab amount...the affected text appears to move rightward, but not smoothly and will reset back to the starting point during this process.

 

getting out of the window, tabs work, but I used spaces to get the text to the spot I wanted.

 

Thanks

[changing Space After in Paragraph very laggy]

I'm just making these observations as I see them; I don't intend to throw a bunch of negative here.

 

Just used the space after slider for the first time and there was quite a bit of lag between adjusting, and seeing the result. What happens is that you see an initial change, then a second or two later, it "catches up" with where the slider now is, and THEN you see the full change you made.

 

No lives are lost; just thought I'd pass it along.

 

cheers!

 

vc

[Key Cmd to select tool other than Text, while Text is the active tool?]

When done with the text tool, is there a way other than making a trip to the tool palette to select another tool?

I've tried several key combos, but I either get another instance of text insertion, or letter if I type, say, V for Move tool.

[Magnify: space + CMD - in either order?]

For Space + CMD to work as a magnify tool, the order must be Space, THEN CMD.

 

Is it possible to allow this to work regardless of which key is pressed first? I keep getting snagged on this; could be some muscle memory I have from other apps where the order didn't matter; only the key combo.

 

thank you!

 

vc

[Select child item by direct clicking?]

I may be noticing this more on things like PDFs I open in Affinity, where it seems the only way to select child items is to open the parent and scroll down until you see a thumbnail that looks like what you're after.

 

This can be time-consuming to say the least. Could there be a way to direct-click on a child item with the cursor, perhaps holding another key at the same time, to "drill down" to the child?

 

Maybe there's something about PDFs opened in Affinity that confounds this, but thought I'd toss it out.

 

Thank you

 

PS: I need to amend this: it is not possible or practical to select child layers in a PDF that has been opened in Affinity....

 

My reason for doing this is to whip out some quick designs based on a web page. I PDFd the page from Safari, and opened in Affinity, thinking I'd be able to quickly manipulate the vector parts of the imported PDF but it couldn't be slower.

[Control what is sliced and exported?]

it certainly can!

 

I have not been able to re-produce what I saw earlier, which is basically, that I selected the object in the art board..the whole thing at the parent level..in the export personas area, made a slice, exported slice and wound up with 58 separate jpgs; one jpg for each of the 58 objects — lines, boxes, type - in the document.  screengrab shows the layers expanded, but in my attempt to reproduce, it didn't make any difference layers open or layers closed; I just couldn't get it to happen again.

 

Thank you

 

[Control what is sliced and exported?]

I am  making a graphic with many boxes and lines and I tried to export the whole graphic as 1 jpg, but instead, I got 58 jpgs! One for each item on the art board.

 

Also, trying to select all of those slices and I can't easily mass-select them using shift key or shift + arrow.

 

So...How do I say, "Take ALL of these items and make 1 slice out of them...all together.

 

 

thank you!

[A command to repeat an action, such as Drag-copy?]

Let's say you Option-Drag a shape to duplicate it, and then you want to repeat that copying n-times?

 

Or rotate, or what have you. Is there/could there be a command to repeat that action?

 

 

Just discovered this: CMD-J

[Text selection, Arrows]

Right now, if you select text with Cmd-A, then hit a left arrow, the cursor doesn't wind up at the beginning of the text. I think the default is cursor at the end of the text.

 

Could this be changed so that the cursor would be at either the beginning or the end, dep. on which arrow was pressed?

 

The universe doesn't hang in the balance, but it's a nice convention of text selection/moving about .

 

thank you

[Document Units: px versus pt]

if document units are set as "Pixels," then shouldn't line weights, etc. also be in Pixels?

 

I'm working on a custom size document right now where the Document Units are px; yet, the line weight tool gives wt in pixels.

 

Not a nosebleed issue..just something I noticed.

[Yellow ! triangle in Layers Palette when export slice]

Hmmm, that's odd then! Any chance you'd just send a copy of the file to support@seriflabs.com and we'll find out what's going on? We'll obviously only use your file to diagnose the problem and delete it afterwards, so don't worry about anything like that :)

Sure..I'd be happy to. After I  had that problem and the added pixel problem, I stopped working with that file. It still exists, but I tried to reproduce the problem this morning and couldn't.  I could try re-creating it from scratch, using the source file again.

 

I can describe what I did...I created a new Affinity document, and placed a graphic at 3X size, then made 2 duplicates of that on the layer, a 2x and a 1x. The goal was to then export the slices. Somewhere in that whole process, the yellow triangle appeared, and curious that not all of the slices had it!

 

If I can get it to happen again, I'll zip up all related files and send it your way.

[Yellow ! triangle in Layers Palette when export slice]

Hi, Matt;

 

I wasn't trying to produce 2x from Affinity; my items were all made from a 3x size placed in Affinity, and sized downward to 2x and 1x. Hovering over the triangle produced no information, no tooltip, no nothing.

 

Thank you

[Can the slice tool not be the default in Export Persona?]

Every time I return to the Export persona, I think the arrow tool is still active, swipe my item, and lo, a new slice is created which I must then delete. And that is because upon entering the Export persona, the slice tool is the active tool.

 

maybe the behavior could be last tool selected is the tool that's active when you enter Export again?

 

Thank you!

 

vcat

[Yellow ! triangle in Layers Palette when export slice]

When I double click on it, nothing happens, so I don't know what I'm being alerted to, but clearly it's some kind of problem or issue..can anyone tell me what?

 

thanks!

 

vc

[Layers palette is gone; how do I get it back?]

I pulled the layers palette out of its docked position and now I cant find it. How can palettes be restored to from whence they came?

 

thank you!

[the ability to copy and past parts of curves]

Deal!

[Can Magnifier (Z) be active only *while* magnifying?]

Hold space+cmd (space first), will do a temporary switch to Zoom tool :)

 

AndyS

schweet! thank you!

[the ability to copy and past parts of curves]

Ah...well..I could make the case that A) Users coming from Illustrator know and use this behavior, and B) it would be consistent with the idea that the Move tool selects whole objects, and Node tool selects nodes, ipso facto, copy paste with node tool should produce a copy of the node-tool-selected nodes.

 

...if that helps at all. Thank you for reading.

[Can Magnifier (Z) be active only *while* magnifying?]

The scenario I'm imagining is like this: you're drawing, editing, etc, and you want to zoom in on some bit, so you Z + marquee over that area. As it is now, the Magnifier is still active and you have to key press back to the tool you'd been using.

 

Is there/could there be a way that you have Magnify only while you are magnifying, then returned to the tool you'd been using prior to magnifying?

 

Magnify should also still be available for times when you still want it, but maybe there could be two key commands for each? One for permanent magnify (until other tool is selected) and one for "magnify on the fly"

 

 

thank you

[Who bought it? Who was first?]

About 5:40pm, Seattle time, Oct 2