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I'm trying to move the duplicate copy of a star symbol from the lower right quadrant of the artboard to the upper right quadrant of the artboard. The artboard is 1000pt x 1000pt. Since I need to move it precisely, I've used the transform panel. In the transform panel, I've put -500 in the y-axis to move it to the upper right quadrant, but it keeps going beyond my artboard all the time. I've tried recreating it on a new document, and it's all the same. Affinity Designer 2022-03-10 13-39-32 - Copy - Copy.mp4

Hi, trying to understand some affinity Photo functionality, i observe a really strange behavior. Start with a life filter, e.g. procedural text, to generate a simple gray gradient Add a rectangular vector shape as mask Look at the transform panel The live filter now gets option to enter x, y, rotate and sheer If you enter 200 for x, the vector shapes gets shifted. But the x will shows -56 after completion. entering 100 for y will not shift, but -156 will be shown The valus seem to add to 256 Another observation: If you move the vector shape after nestig it, the transform panel will show insane values for the live filter layer. I spotted this in a more complex document, when i tried to pixel-align some vector shapes used for masking with help of transform panel, and struggeled there how the layers were presented. My assumption (which could be wrong) is that the transform panel should not allow to enter values for x,y,r,s at all for live filter layers, and should not be able to e.g. rotate. zero pro text gradient.afphoto 2021-02-19_19-38-10_proc_text_and_vector_as_mask.mkv

Is there or could be interesting to have the area of a shape or polygon automatically calculated in the ‘transform’ panel, together with the now existing position and size? thanx!

Hi guys. Maybe this has been mentioned before elsewhere, but I find the Tab shortcut behaviour on the Transform panel to be complete nonsense. The field selection order shouldn't be an absurd from left to right, top to bottom (i.e. X position > Width > Y Position > Height), but instead a more logical from top to bottom, left to right (i.e. X position > Y position > Width > Height). The way it is, it feels a bit broken whenever you feel the need to manually input values. And it should't take you more than changing a line or two of code to fix it, so… maybe you could do that for the next release? Thanks! Edit #1: Even though the “constrain proportions” link-thingy button is, indeed, selectable via tab (and, very logically so if I may add, after all the others), I just noticed that the Rotate and Skew fields aren't. Also, having the “Tab to hide the Studio” shortcut activated instead of cycling from the last field back to the first one doesn't make much sense and isn't very friendly, IMHO. Edit #2: I've just noticed another thing: In fact, the Rotate and Skew fields are indeed selectable via Tab. And you can tab from the Skew field to… the X position field?? This means that even though those two fields are visually on the bottom part of the panel, if we consider the whole “Tab to hide the Studio” thing, they seem to be coded as if they were on top. Which actually makes it a bug/error/oversight on your part, oopsy-daisy. But the best solution would be to not only change the ordering and getting rid of that cycle-breaking behaviour; that way, it wouldn't really make any difference. Edit #3: It gets even weirder still. If you press Shift-Tab instead of Tab, you can infinitely cycle backwards (as it should be, anyway) through the panel fields… So, did you actually hard-code that break when tabbing regularly on purpose?

When I work on projects in which pixel accuracy is important, often after scaling elements I need to manually adjust the coordinates in the transform tab. It would be nice if there were buttons for rounding coordinates on this panel. When clicking with the [ctrl] key, it could round all parameters. I painted it on attached screen. It would be very convenient at work when you working on many objects. Instead of correcting 4 fields on the keyboard.

It would be a great help, if Affinity Designer / Photo could export information for slices from the transform panel (X, Y, W, H, rotation), e.g. in a CSV file. Chris