[Yosemite compatibility?]

I installed Yosemite this morning on this 2010 MBP. I began doing serious work in Affinity on this Mac about 2 hours ago. I have so far seen or exprerienced anything prevents my working or Affinity operating smoothly.

 

I wish apple would tone down the colors, but I feel that yosemite is production-ready.

[Warping/Distorting?]

Are there any warping tools in the cards for AD?

[Resize *anywhere* not just at "handles"]

sometimes you need to zoom way in to see when/where to stop scaling an object. Often, zooming in means that one of the "handles" is not in view any more, yet you can still  see the perimeter of the item being scaled.

 

It would be awfully handy to be able to grab anywhere along this perimeter to finish the scaling job whilst zoomed in on the area of concern.

 

thank you

[Could the "sensitive space" be enlarged a bit?]

I'm talking about the zone where you can re-size widgets in the interface or where you can rotate a selected object on the artboard. The zone where the cursor changes indicating the thing you can do such as widget resizing or rotate versus move. It seems like the "zone" is very small. I see this on other apps, too..maybe it's a trend; often the zone is 1 px high!

 

People with that level of super-human manual exactitude have my eternal admiration. However, I don't have it. It feels like trying to grasp a very thin hair with tweezers and 8 hours of that can be wearing.

 

Could there be a bit more of a zone for these things..just a bigger area?

 

Thank you for any consideration on this.

[Unable to pull out a guide]

I have rulers visible but they appear transluscent...I have a layer clicked on/activated..and Show Guides is active.

 

I can't drag out a guide. I can place a guide using the guide manager, but I can't drag with my cursor.

 

anyone know what up with that?  Am I in some kind of cant-drag-guides mode?

 

I'm in the Draw persona...

 

thanks

 

 

 

[How does tab-setting work in AD?]

I know what tabs are and how to set them in other apps, but in AD, I don't see how you see what you're doing...tab stops are relative to what?

 

thanks for any clues!

[Can pasting text with same style as original happen?]

We don't currently paste HTML, but if the browser you are pasting from provides RTF, we should get formatted text from that.

Usually, I use FF, fwiw...

[Support for CSS3]

Maybe this is way out there, but with modern web-focused workflows, I think you could make a case for CSS support..this could help with wireframes - at least for text elements – or other types of web mockups...to see how the text would look using actual CSS, rather than an approximation.

[Can pasting text with same style as original happen?]

...or something like it?

 

Let's say I grab some text from a web page and I want to use that look (ie text styles, weights sizes) in some mockups..I'd like the text, once pasted to have those same weights and sizes..

 

Is this possible?  I have seen *some* apps that can do this, but I'm not sure of the rock-hard details about which apps and under what circumstances.

[Select child item by direct clicking?]

Hi,

 

1.) Turn on "Edit all layers", if it's not already on (bottom left of layers panel).

2.) Hold Cmd when you click to "dig" into containers.

3.) Use Option / Alt to cycle through click selections.

 

Hope this helps,

 

AndyS

Sweet! Oh, yeah, that helps muchly so!

 

Thank you

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

OK..no, I get it and I wouldn't be hasty to chuck it..it's not a bad way to go, but might I suggest adding some other warning element to the situation, like maybe the text box could take on a different color, such as red, to help alert the User to what up?

 

I can appreciate the difficulty in choosing the warning method to use..I am accustomed to the one Quark and InDesign use...I've always found it mildly annoying, but...how else to handle it.  I respect how you guys are approaching it.

 

The only danger I can see with the current method is that AD will allow overflow text to display (and print?) but maybe that's not the end of the world, either...

 

So, it's hide the text and User says, "Hey, where'd my text go...Oh, yeah...overflow."   or show the overflow and User thinks, "Hey, why is that text behaving like that...ah...overflow."

 

Just thinking out loud here..

[Possible to allow items at the side of the artboard to be visible?]

I like to use that area to stash things I need to be out of the way, but within reach at the same time...perhaps others do, too?

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

ah..that works...thank you !

[Strokes (as compared with Illustrator)]

4.) Multiple strokes is on the cards - but we need to find a nice way to implement the UI - most other efforts I have seen are not good enough, imo.

 

5.) You *can* do gradients on lines! When using the gradient tool, select "Line" context from the context toolbar.

 

 

Sweet, and Sweet!

 

I am glad that you confirm that feature X or Y is on the way. I sure am enjoying the ride until then...

 

:D

[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