GraphicDesigner Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 On macOS, you use Alt+Left/Right to go back and forward whole words, and Cmd+Left/Right to go back and forth lines. One thing I hate about Adobe and Microsoft applications on macOS is that they obliterate these shortcuts, and they are the only apps on macOS which do this. They made Cmd+Left/Right go back and forward words, not lines. On InDesign, I always try pressing Alt+Left/Right as per my muscle memory, but this changes spacing which is annoying because I always do it accidentally. On Publisher, thankfully you can disable this by removing the keyboard shortcuts. But is there a way to get the default macOS behavior back? Now when I press Alt+Left/Right, nothing happens—I want it to go back and forward words though. And I want to change the Cmd one to go back and forward lines. Anyone have any ideas? I'd prefer not to use a third-party tool to remap these shortcuts and all that stuff. Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 I believe that capability is coming in 1.8, and is usable now in the 1.8 beta for testing. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GraphicDesigner Posted December 28, 2019 Author Posted December 28, 2019 That's amazing! I had a feeling that Affinity Publisher had this feature. Adobe apps really suck at macOS integration compared to Affinity's apps! Thanks a ton. Quote
GraphicDesigner Posted December 28, 2019 Author Posted December 28, 2019 53 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I believe that capability is coming in 1.8, and is usable now in the 1.8 beta for testing. And how would one enable it in the Beta? Edit: actually I see it! They're just more keyboard shortcuts Quote
h_d Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 FWIW (Beta 1.8.0.523 for MacOS) : "Apple defaults" use Alt+arrow to jump the cursor word-by-word. "Serif defaults" use the same shortcuts to modify paragraph leading. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
Old Bruce Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 2 hours ago, h_d said: "Apple defaults" use Alt+arrow to jump the cursor word-by-word. "Serif defaults" use the same shortcuts to modify paragraph leading. Not leading but kerning. Leading uses the up and down arrows not the left and right ones. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
h_d Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Not leading but kerning. Ah yes, my mistake. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
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