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Hello all, So I have done a some tinkering and then some searching and then some reading. I am trying to get down to the bottom of a few issues I am having that are different from my past life in working with Illustrator. So.... I am working with text right now. I have taken the text and converted it to curves. 'O' is one of the letters and I am trying to isolate the inner linework and the outer linework as separate paths. In illustrator, this 'O' would typically behave as a compound path, but instead I found out that I have to use geometry divide in AD. Is this correct or am I missing something. No biggie now that figured it out, but curious. The bigger issue I am having right now is with using the pen tool and snapping. So I have this letter 'O' which has been broken down into separate paths. I have the O linework selected as snapping candidates. I would like to create new linework using the pen tool that begins and/or ends directly on the intersection with the 'O' linework. I plan on then removing certain linework from the 'O' and then joining the curves of the pen tool with it to create a new object. The only problem is that I cannot for the life of me get snapping to work with the pen tool and the 'O'. I expected that the pen tool would snap to the outline of the 'O' when it is within a certain distance (like with illustrator), but it does not behave this way. I can only snap to essentially the midpoints, but nowhere else. What am I missing here? Thanks -
I can't seem to get the marquee tool to snap to a grid. I have enabled snapping and checked snap to grid in the snapping mgr. I can snap to a guide but not to a grid. Help please - this is a big issue for me.
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Is there a way to temporarily hide the snapping candidates (pink line) to see doc/objects without it instead of actually unclicking the button? Would be useful to have but then that would negate having a button I guess. Just thinking in terms of efficiency. -
Greetings, I am having trouble snapping shapes to a curve. Is this possible? (In my screenshot, I am attempting to snap the rotated rectangle to the curve it’s close to, but can’t.)
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We would like to see more improvements of text snapping. (If you create a new text object, only the “first click” snaps. Only the first character can be used.)
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Perhaps a button to reset snapping candidates is a good idea. Could quicken our work.
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Part of my workflow in Freehand is draging guides onto anchorpoints. When "snap to point" is activated in Freehand the guides perfectly snap to the anchorpoints. To do so in AD it would be necessary, to be able to drag guides frome the ruler while in node tool. Actually, this is not possible, but maybe it would be a nice option for future updates... Speaking about guides, another nice thing, that I like in Freehand and that would be great to see implemented in AD, ist the possibility to convert any shape to guides. And one last thing: Congratulations for the latest update! It was one more big step forward and I can’t wait to see the next bunch of cool functions implemented in your already great piece of software!
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Hi, I've recently bought Affinity Photo, and I am quite pleased with it. It feels very solid and snappy. At the moment there's one thing I can't get to work, and that's layer boundary snapping, in order to align two layers against each other. I've turned on all snapping options, but when I move a layer towards another layer, they simply overlap, no snapping occurs. A snapping line does appear when a layer nears the center of the canvas, and snapping works in that case. The same goes for canvas boundaries, that also works as expected. I'm using El Capitan and a consumer level Wacom tablet. Could the Wacom tablet be the culprit, as the driver takes over pointer control? Or am I just doing something wrong? Many thanks in advance for any replies. -
I think the snapping features in AP is very good! However: If you have the time, take a look at Vectorworks snapping, wich is insanely good: http://www.vectorworks.net/getting-started-guides/Common/object-snapping Just for inspiration :) Best Soren
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Hello, first of all I'd like to thank you for your great software! Could you please explain to me why the options shown below in the screenshot are grayed out (not working)? Is it a demo version limitation or can they become enabled on certain actions? Thanks in advance.
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I've got a couple of vector masks which are masking out two images. When I drag the masks together, with snapping turned on, they snap but leave a gap between them. A gap that's very clearly visible... what am I doing wrong? There's no stroke before you ask :D Driving me mad!
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Hi, it would be great to have the option to snap to locked objects as well as hidden objects, as is currently available. Thanks for your consideration
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While working with vector nodes, have holding +control snap handles to major degrees, i.e. 0, 90, 45, etc. Currently, +shift just locks the angle (and making handles lock equal distances from the main node), but it’s harder to find exact alignments. You could go as far as say +control to snap to major degrees document wide, and even adding +control +alt to adjust the degree snapping according to the angle of the node. But, I'd love at least document wide to quickly lay out points with a little more control. -
Please, take a look at the snapping (constrains) in Nemetschek Vector Works.
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I am trying to understand why snapping performance can be perfect and a breeze to line things up, then I go to another set of objects that need to line up relative to one another and then snapping totally bonks out and does not perform well at all. Are there special clicking patterns I need to do, meaning click one before the other to align to it. Just seems I always need to play with tolerance, which by the way how does it affect snapping, I may be doing it wrong. I should add that my objects are usually groups of several other objects, sometimes near 100.
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Hey there! I’d like to request either a shortcut or a button in the menu to keep or reset the elliptic shape for the Depth of Field Blur filter in AP while or after scaling the affected area. For now it’s possible to hold down shift and constrain the transformation to the selected axis, though honestly I'm not sure when this will get useful for me right now. Not as intuitive but maybe a button in the menu would be nice, so after scaling the ellipse in width or height you would be able to convert it back into a circle-shape with the new dimension. Also the option to hold shift while moving the center of the effect so it’d snap onto the x- or y-axis would be cool. Let me hear what you guys think of this. ;) Greetings Dennis -
I've noticed there's a couple of features that prevent me from using Affinity Designer instead of illustrator. When I'm making a logo or illustration for that matter a lot of the time it calls for symmetry. Illustrator has a mirror tool that makes it easy to accomplish, though I think it can still be improved upon. I was hoping that you guys would consider making a 'live symmetry' mode. Similar to your 2 window mode split mode (one outline and one regular). I know I'll probably get people telling me you can accomplish this using a longer method but the fact of the matter is when I do it never lines up perfectly. Especially considering you can't flip on an axis. Now the intersect snapping to me is EXTREMELY important. You guys claim to be the most precise out of all the software which I would almost say is true but you're missing a key feature that I absolutely need. When I have two shapes that overlap I'd like to be able to add a node at the intersections between them. By that I mean I want control on which intersections to add the nodes instead of using the: Minus Front, Intersect, etc. tools. Let me know what you guys think! I really think with those features I could finally see myself using this as my tool of choice. I think you guys should look at the Astute Graphics tools (for illustrator) as well and try to mimic some of that behaviour in Affinity Designer. They have tools for making shapes that make everything way more accurate and precise. I hope you'll consider adding these features. Thanks! -
Please enable the ability to force a locked layer to become a snapping candidate. Often times I lock layers so I don't accidentally edit them, but periodically I still want to snap other objects to them. A suggestion would be to hover over a locked layer while holding Alt (to ignore the fact that it's locked) to add that layer to the snapping candidates. -
What would really be handy is if there was a snapping setting where a node would only snap to what is currently displayed on the screen. So that snapping could be localized. In a large complex shape there are so many nodes possible that ones far away can interfere with getting a node positioned right. By zooming in and positioning the drawing on the screen properly positioning would be greatly enhanced. -
Hey guys, it would be a REALLY great productivity enhancer to have a keyboard equivalent to toggle snapping on and off... something like pressing S while using ANY tool. Thanks for considering this suggestion. Cheers!
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Guys, Try pressing the Screen Tolerance slider in the Snapping pop-up window, and you'll see the slider appear but the entire Sanpping panel disappears behind it... -
I’m just using the Designer beta to lay out some typography, and I’ve noticed that the snapping tool only works with the usual object geometry of bounding box, midpoints, centre points etc (for both art text and text frames). Obviously with typography, the baseline is an important point of alignment, and Illustrator currently includes it in its snapping options. I’d love for the Affinity suite to include the same functionality. -
I can't seem to get cropping to the edges of a cropped object to work. Perhaps I'm missing how to do this. It's not apparent how it works, if it is there.
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Hi, I'm really enjoying Affinity Designer so far. However, I'm having some trouble with node snapping while using the pen tool. For example, if I try and draw a box with the pen tool (4 nodes, holding shift to draw vertical and horizontal lines), I can't seem to get the third node to "snap" to the last.. I have no idea where I should be clicking to align the node to finish the shape. Once the shape is closed, I don't seem to get any snapping hints when moving those nodes either. Am I missing a setting within the snapping settings in order to align nodes within the same shape? Or is this not an existing feature yet? Thanks! -
I'm sure there's a very easy way to do this that I just haven't yet figured out, but if I have pixel objects in my workspace, is there any way to snap another pixel object to their bounding box? It's very confusing because if I have a pixel object, I can drag it around and it'll snap to the artboard or any vector objects present, but for some reason, I can't seem to get pixel objects to snap to the borders of bounding boxes around other pixel objects. I do have all the snapping options set in the snapping manager. Is this just something that is temporarily not (yet) possible or something that is by design? If you consider a pixel object to be snappable to a vector object, then there shouldn't be anything existentially preventing pixel objects from snapping to one another? Thanks!
