Ian Tompkins Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 I recently started using Affinity Designer 2 on my iPad Pro and was a bit baffled that common keyboard shortcuts are absent. When I place my cursor between two letters and press Option + Right Arrow, it jumps to the end of the line of text rather than increasing the kerning. Cmd + Right and Ctrl + Right do the exact same thing, so I don’t see a compelling reason why Option + Right Arrow wouldn’t be available for use as a kerning shortcut instead. I recognize that the iPad interface is (necessarily) optimized for touch, and I think it’s done quite well for that purpose. However, kerning is buried fairly deep in the menu, and the traditional Option + Arrow shortcuts would be a major convenience for those of us using keyboard and mouse on iOS. It doesn’t look like enabling them would interfere with any other functionality, so please consider doing so! I would add that there are a number of other shortcuts in the same boat which I think could be added without causing issues, such as Cmd + and Cmd - to zoom, or Esc to back out of editing a text object. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feltleftco Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 I am deeply seconding this request - between no kerning options on ipad AND no server capacity for projects between devices, not being able to add spacing between text characters is extremely important and I'm shocked and concerned that it hasn't been implemented yet. As a designer, this is a very simple option that should be available on ipad, as numerous projects have required it and the manual moving is TEDIOUS beyond reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 On 4/23/2023 at 11:01 AM, Ian Tompkins said: I would add that there are a number of other shortcuts in the same boat which I think could be added without causing issues, such as Cmd + and Cmd - to zoom Those two shortcuts exist for the iPad, since sometime in V2 (not sure when they became available). 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...
GripsholmLion Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 "extremely important [...] shocked and concerned [...] TEDIOUS beyond reason" That's an unusually bad case of superlative-itis. 😆 PaulEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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