MFF Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Hey y'all, I have the Surface Laptop Studio and I'm trying to figure out if there are touch gestures in Affinity Designer? Like two finger undo, etc? Was hoping it would be a smooth transition from the iPad version...but now I'm second guessing that. Thanks y'all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 No, those are iPad-only features. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFF Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: No, those are iPad-only features. Super unfortunate as there are so many Windows based tablets and convertibles. Looks like I’ll have to switch to a different app, as that’s a huge hit to productivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFF Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 For those who stumble upon this hoping their SLS will work for vector art - unfortunately, you'll find the SLS lack terribly in all apps. Why? Because companies suck at caring about Windows touch devices. Illustrator, Designer, CSP, etc all have individual downfalls for artists trying to use the SLS and a pen. Trust me - I sold my Macbook Pro and iPad Pro to get an SLS and now have my SLS for sale on eBay to switch back. Breakdown: Illustrator doesn't do touch gestures or touch for gestures only. So your fingers will draw, select, and jack up your work. Rotating the canvas is terrible, and the response to touch in general is terrible. Affinity Designer has no canvas rotation. After using the pen there is a delay between it recognizing your fingers for gestures like zoom, etc. Overall super glitchy and has a ton of issues with randomly not reading your fingers, but still reading your pen, and then reverse. Clip Studio Paint is the best, but unfortunately if you're mainly working in vector...it's a very raster forward program, with no vector fills, etc. But does have gestures like two finger undo and canvas rotation. But for me the lack of vector attention ruins it for me. So, switching back to an iPad Pro and Affinity Designer is what I'm doing. IF you stay with the SLS, snag the Xencelabs Quick Keys and thank me later. Set it up for undo/redo, tools, alt, shft, etc. Still with it hate using my SLS for design work in tablet mode. lorisobi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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