Re-request scale tool

[Claus]

After v. 1.8 has been released I’ll only ask for one thing: dedicated scale tool. The current bounding box scaling does not work in many cases. I need something like Illustrator, select anything, objects or nodes, click once to set the scale center and drag to scale.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Claus
Pointing out this is not a new request

[fde101]

This thread is a duplicate - this has been requested already many times.

What cases are currently not working for you?

[Claus]

I know, we had this conversation before. As others here I repeat my favorite request to keep it visible. I’m pretty sure most requests are duplicates. So to repeat myself, with the current bounding box gizmo you can’t scale a selection of points with a custom center. I have also asked that scaling a single point will scale the curve handles, like Illustrator. Since a single point has no bounding box (or points that are aligned horizontally or vertically) a dedicated tool is needed.

[fde101]

27 minutes ago, Claus said:

scaling a single point will scale the curve handles

You can't really scale handles, but I do remember what you are referring to...  that doesn't necessarily need to be a separate tool; it could be done with a modifier key or a separate mode of the node tool if Serif were so inclined.  I doubt they would implement a separate tool just for this.

 

28 minutes ago, Claus said:

I repeat my favorite request to keep it visible

Then bump the existing thread, don't create new ones.  That just adds clutter and many of us find it annoying to wade through a zillion threads discussing the same thing.

 

29 minutes ago, Claus said:

you can’t scale a selection of points with a custom center

That should be possible by making the transformation center visible and positioning it, then holding down the correct modifier while scaling.  I will double-check when I get a chance later (don't have it in front of me right now), but if that is not working, that could still be fixed with the current tool - again, this does not require a new tool, just some improvements to the existing one.