Otto Manuel Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Hi, I really enjoy Affinity Designer, but have yet to find a way to replicate a helpful function found in Adobe Illustrator; "Pathfinders > Trim" This function allows me to separate a quickly made vector sketch into components. Is there a way to do something similar in Designer? Windows 7 x64 and Affinity Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Manuel Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 I searched around and saw several threads where the merits of the Trim function were debated. Some of the discussions reinforced my impression that duplicating layers and running subtraction processes served as a substitute. I did this for my current project and was able to replicate the function of one click of an Adobe Illustrator Trim button with a couple dozen duplicate and subtract (with a few adds thrown where it was necessary) procedures. Designer is such a pleasure to draw in, but it is a pain to have to run through all the steps to separate the shapes when you know the process has long been incorporated into one familiar function in other apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted October 28, 2020 Staff Share Posted October 28, 2020 Hi @Otto Manuel, Many thanks for your feedback here, as you've discovered this is possible in Affinity but is perhaps not as succinct as is possible in Illustrator. I'll move this thread to the Feedback section of our forums, for our devs to see and consider - I hope this helps! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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