Enough! Percentage scaling boxes already!

[nik78]

Why has this not been done after all this time? It is a major flaw in the program.

And that goes for all the other programs as well.

It should have been there from the beginning.

Typing in formulas is not the way to do it!

Is this going to be done or not?

Getting this done would be a big step forward.

Do it already!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, nik78.

I'm not sure what you think is missing. Can you provide more information about what you're trying to scale, and perhaps show a screenshot of where you'd like to be able to specify a percentage value?

[AaronB]

Nik78,

In the Transform Tab you can type in a percentage in the X,Y or W,H fields. Let say you have a shape and you want to double the width of it. Type 200% into the W: box and hit enter.

Hope this helps.

Aaron

 

[Pšenda]

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/expressions.html

[nik78]

For professional day in and day out work what you need  is a proper scaling tool (and I am not the first person to say it) as in Illustrator or those boxes in Photoshop and Indesign. It is a must.

[fde101]

On 4/5/2020 at 9:57 AM, nik78 said:

what you need  is a proper scaling tool

We already have two of them: the move tool for scaling objects and the node tool for scaling a selection of nodes within an object.

Those work just fine.

 

On 4/4/2020 at 11:12 AM, nik78 said:

Is this going to be done or not?

How would this work for a shape which does not have a native size associated with it?

For example, a rectangle always has 100% of its own width and 100% of its own height no matter what that width and height happen to be.  If you reduce it to 50% of its size it now has 100% of its new size.

A percentage is utterly meaningless for most types of objects so any functionality that is provided along these lines will indeed be quite specific to the type of object.

Indeed, what you are requesting is already present for images:

 

 

Many have been asking to extend this to embedded documents and may in fact have a valid point in asking for that, but if you have something else in mind, then please respond to this completely relevant question that was asked earlier so that we can understand what you are asking for:

On 4/4/2020 at 11:17 AM, walt.farrell said:

an you provide more information about what you're trying to scale