rallx Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 For those of us who might use designer for technical illustration, various scaling options would be useful: 1. Set document scale — so that inches or points can be converted different dimensions. One can imagine a carpentry project where 1 inch = 2 ft for example. In my case here would be the most convenient workflow: open a raster image of a map with a scale bar, drag the mouse along the scale bar (or any feature of known length) and then type in the distance represented on the map (e.g., 100 m, 10 km, etc.). The scale would be set automatically. [as an aside, length and area calculations, in the scale/using the units specified would be nice] 2. Scale object — I mentioned this briefly in a post on a different topic but thought it would be more useful in a dedicated post on scaling. One should be able to specify the change in size (or shape) of an object in a dialog box where you specify the horizontal and vertical scaling factors (either proportional or non-proportional) by either percent or by entering a ratio. 3. Set document origin — this is less important to me, but still useful. The ability to place the (0,0) at any point within the document. Also the ability to specify geographic/engineering coordinates (positive to the right and positive up) or the usual screen coordinates (positive to the right and positive down). One can likewise imagine two different types of rotation: counterclockwise positive from the right (engineering convention) or clockwise from the top (compass convention) peejay and cosinus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted October 7, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 7, 2014 Thanks for the feedback. Items 2 and 3 are already on my list. metajake 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallx Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Great news! I didn't see scaling listed explicitly in the Affinity Designer feature roadmap post, but maybe I didn't look closely enough. I'm really enthused about the direction that AD is going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misamee Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 I've spent something like 20 minutes to find how to set the size of an object. I thought I was just missing the place where to look, because I couldn't believe a feature as such was missing, and now I see that is indeed missing. Ok, this one is about scaling, whilst I'm talking about precise sizes, but since this usually (in other apps) is part of the same feature, I suppose they will both implemented sooner or later. Will switch back to Inkscape once again until then :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted October 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 12, 2014 I've spent something like 20 minutes to find how to set the size of an object. I thought I was just missing the place where to look, because I couldn't believe a feature as such was missing, and now I see that is indeed missing. Ok, this one is about scaling, whilst I'm talking about precise sizes, but since this usually (in other apps) is part of the same feature, I suppose they will both implemented sooner or later. Will switch back to Inkscape once again until then :( The transform panel lets you set the size of an object. The transform panel will also let you scale objects by typing things like w+20%. The transform panel has always had these capabilities but we still plan on adding a set of transform commands as it will give more flexibility for things like transform each etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallx Posted October 12, 2014 Author Share Posted October 12, 2014 The transform panel will also let you scale objects by typing things like w+20%. Cool! It also allows you to enter 0.5*w. I get the impression that AD is full of hidden gems like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Some time ago I suggested sometime similar. possibilty of seeing the % values while scaling an object or text :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trystero Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Hello, i purchased Affinity Designer one week ago (the main reason was: it opens my old Freehand files!) and this morning I was trying to use it for my first work. But I immediately discovered that there is no Scale % option in the transform palette. I had to scale a picture in the background by 114,2% and I cannot. Please add this ESSENTIAL option! The FreeHand Transform palette: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 30, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 30, 2014 Hi Trystero, Here's how to scale you image: - select the image - go to Transform panel, width field and write: *=114.2% (make sure you use a dot, not a comma) - since width and height are linked by default for images, Affinity will scale both dimensions Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotster Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Any chance item 1 of the original post will be addressed. That would be super useful. -Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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