Illustrator Pascal Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Hi, I am an illustrator and new on this forum. After working with the Adobe CS 5 suite for a long time, I switched to the Affinity applications. I just started with publisher. Something I am strugling with is changing the frame of an image. In InDesign I could add a point to the frame with the pen and then move it with the white arrow to change the shape of the frame. In A. Publisher there is no white arrow. According tutorials it has to be done with the node tool, but when I use this and click on the border of an image frame, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Edited January 22, 2020 by Illustrator Pascal Quote
GarryP Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 Welcome to the forums. To allow the Node Tool to work on a Picture Frame, press the “Convert To Curves” button on the Context Toolbar for the Node Tool (see attached GIF). Quote
Illustrator Pascal Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 I selected the node tool, but can't find the pop up menu for the 'convert to curves'. Quote
R C-R Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 26 minutes ago, Illustrator Pascal said: I selected the node tool, but can't find the pop up menu for the 'convert to curves'. "Convert to curves" should be on the Context Toolbar, either by clicking the ⨠ symbol at its right edge if the workspace window is not wide enough to show all the context toolbar items (like in Garry's GIF), or inline with the items to its left if it is wide enough to show them all. If you do not see this, first make sure you have selected the Picture Frame layer in the Layers panel, & if you still don't see it that the Context Toolbar itself is shown. If it is not, tick the View menu "Show Context Toolbar" item. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Illustrator Pascal Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 This is how my context toolbar looks like during the use of the node tool: Quote
GarryP Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 If your Node Tool Context Toolbar looks like that then the thing you have selected should already be converted to curves. You should be able to move the nodes and reshape the shape using the normal Node Tool operations. If you can’t, can you attach a video/GIF which includes your Layers Panel (preferably the whole screen)? Quote
Illustrator Pascal Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 I have found it the 'convert to curves' option was only available during the use of the move tool. Now it works Quote
Illustrator Pascal Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 Thanks for all the feedback. Quote
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