Affinity Designer Pen Tool

[jonnsin]

For some reason I cannot see pen tool blue handles on the document page but if I extend the path off the page they show up on the background but as soon as move back on to the page they disappear. On a finished pen path they will show when using the node tool . I don't recall this happening in the pas

I am on current A/D and using a n iMac 24" Monterey 12.6

[Dan C]

Hi @jonnsin,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble!

I'm a little confused by your report however as I'm struggling to visualise the issue you're experiencing.

Therefore, can you please provide a screen recording here showing the issue for me?

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 Many thanks in advance

[jonnsin]

You can probably see the blue lines at left off page which only appear as I come off the page and disappear as soon as I come back onto the page. Hope this makes sense. Sorry didn't manage screen recording but this might explain my problem. Actually on closer inspection I have discovered that the blue lines do appear when I come back on to the page are there but are so feint the are almost invisible. Is there a way to strengthen them?

[Hangman]

2 minutes ago, jonnsin said:

Actually on closer inspection I have discovered that the blue lines do appear when I come back on to the page are there but are so feint the are almost invisible. Is there a way to strengthen them?

Why do you need to strengthen the blue lines on canvas when you can see your path/curve represented by the stoke weight and the nodes? Slightly unsure why or what benefit you would gain here if the blue line was thicker or more prominent? If you reduce the stroke width to say 0.5pt you will effectively see the same blue line both on and off canvas...

Could you maybe explain what benefit you feel you would gain by strengthening the blue line?

[Old Bruce]

What you are seeing is the handles for the selected Node and its immediate neighbours' curves. The final node is the selected one, it is a sharp node so has no handles, the next one is a smooth curve and has the one handle controlling the curve on the side that is closest to the the selected curve.

Choose the node tool and click on some other nodes. Watch what happens.

This could be a screen drawing issue. If you haven't turned your machine off for a long time (days) and you haven't quit Designer for quite a while too then these things should be done.