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Hi there, I was editing a symbol and, after I pressed A on the keyboard, I've got this: I guess it doesn't say too much in order to figure out what happened. Anyway, I'll keep testing and I'll check if this happens again.

I have an art board with a large Symbol on it which I then duplicate in much smaller scale to additional, smaller art boards. If I create a shape inside the original symbol and set a stroke width of, say 20pt, then the stroke width is an actual 20pt on all copies of the symbol, regardless of their relative scale. I was expecting the stroke to be scaled proportionally. The example shows a 45pt stroke on the circle as set in the 1024pt large art board. You can see it is also 45pt on the smaller art boards, pretty much destroying the design.

Working now w. symbols. Happy to have seen the in-house vid, viewed several times, took notes. Figured out that some of my problems to date were not understanding how the symbol container and contents selection changed operations. Question. Symbol contents have attributes. There are obvious ones such as fill, stroke, and layer blend. It appears that transformations are also an attribute. Any others? It seems that if a symbol content object/layer, or one within a group of objects making up the symbol contents has a geometric transformation, it is un-synchronized. An example. I made a symbol of a group of 2 nested stars. Duplicated the symbol several times, and selected one internal star in one instance. I turned off synch, and squashed the star some. After that, while it would move and rotate within that instance. Size and rotations in other instance objects no longer affected it. A similar thing happened when I reshaped a square into a rectangle, at which point I saw that transformations were unlinked. Which leads to a question. Is there a way to re-link? Or, should another symbol be made out of the transformed shape. IE, detach, re-create so that particular form can be retained. Then place that inside and existing symbol. Anu advice, or comment appreciated. Sorry to make this longer, but... here may be a bit of a bug. I made several instances of a rectangle. Moved individual containers around, and rotated them some. Then started rotating and moving one of the content rectangles. The various instances would shift in place in relation to each other, and/rotate synchronously, as expected. After 5 - 8 positional shifts, I tried centering 2 of the rectangles on each other. and found they had slightly different sizes. If de-synched so I could try and duplicate the center positions, rotation and XY sizes, as above, they no longer synched. My suspicion is that in the course of the positional transforms, there was a very small rounding error on the defining node positions. By small, I mean 1 or 2 hundreds or thousands of an inch. Enough to be visible on a retina screen, though perhaps not enough for most printers.

Make live boolean with symbols please.

It would be nice to have a tool that sprays symbols. with size, opacity, rotation and color control. (like symbol sprayer tool in adobe illustrator, or anything like that.)

While using Affinity Designer today I noticed in the "Character" dialog that a strange ‰ symbol is used instead of % for Tracking and Kerning. Why? I've never seen that before in Illustrator or any other app. Is it a mistake?

I want to use the OM symbol in one of my designs. AD doesn't have "clip art" so to say. Where is the best place to get an OM symbol on the web? I feel like every free download site is a scam. Also, once I get the om symbol i need the background to be transparent. Advice?

Hello, I am new Affinity Designer user. Before that I use Fireworks program for 14 years (started with Macromedia Fireworks 4.0) and now I think it is time to look for a new drawing tool. Now I investigate the Affinity and I have some questions, perhaps I just do not know where to find the necessary drawing tools: 1. Is there a "Symbol" instrument ? Combined into one "Symbol" (object, element ....) several graphical primitives? I found in Affinity only the "Group", but it is not the same as "Symbol" in Fireworks. For example in Fireworks - I can make many copies of the "Symbol" (Push Buttons element) and then making some corrections (such as color and line thickness) in one of the "Symbol" (Push Buttons element) copies and this correction made automatically in all "Symbol" (Push Buttons element) duplicates in the document. Can i add that "Symbol" to library ? 2. Is there a similar text tools, like Fireworks - "Kerling or Tracking", "Anti-aliasing level", "Auto Kern" etc. 3. Where can I find a display Grid edit tool - For example i need Grid 51x51px in Red color 4. It is not yet possible to import Fireworks CS6 files? Thank you in advance for the help.