Photo - macOS Sonoma - Letterspacing Shortcut bug

[ronnyb]

Seems that tightening and loosening arrows are reverses... current setup is highly unintuitive....

[walt.farrell]

I'm not sure if you mean that it's counter-intuitive to set it up that way, or that it's broken. It works the opposite of what the menu shows. Right arrow is for loosen, and left for tighten on my Mac, which matches how it works (and what the menu shows) for Windows.

[ronnyb]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure if you mean that it's counter-intuitive to set it up that way, or that it's broken. It works the opposite of what the menu shows. Right arrow is for loosen, and left for tighten on my Mac, which matches how it works (and what the menu shows) for Windows.

Loosen should use the forward arrow key, Tighten should use the back arrow key... it's currently backwards

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, ronnyb said:

Loosen should use the forward arrow key, Tighten should use the back arrow key... it's currently backwards

It is described backwards. It works as you want (at least, it does for me).

[ronnyb]

not for me.

[walt.farrell]

Sorry; I just realized that my menu shows it differently.

For me, it shows opt+left-arrow as tighten, and opt+right-arrow as loosen. This matches what Windows shows and how Windows works:

 

Question: Do you have your application Shortcuts Settings set to use Mac defaults? I don't, which might explain the difference.

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Question: Do you have your application Shortcuts Settings set to use Mac defaults? I don't, which might explain the difference.

Ah, the Apple shortcuts are backward for Tighten and Loosen and I believe this is just a mistake.

Apple doesn't use left or right arrow for tighten and loosen, it uses Option-Command-Left Bracket ([) for Tighten and right bracket for loosen. So if the "Apple" shortcuts for Affinity are going to use left and right arrow they should be in the same direction as the "Serif" shortcuts to mirror Apple's bracket directions.

Ronny, for now you should just swap these manually to customize your own set.

This issue isn't specific to the beta and could be moved to the general Mac bugs forum.

[Dan C]

Hi ronnyb,

We're not able to reproduce this here.

Are you running an additional language on your OS or anything else that could be altering your shortcuts?

If not, could you try resetting your apps settings by launching the app holding the control key and hitting "reset" on the following window.

Lee

[MikeTO]

@Lee_T You're not getting reversed arrow shortcuts when you click the Apple Defaults button?