Arrowhead scaling limited to 500% v2.5.6 on Windows

[Milo_D]

Designer 2.5.6 on Windows does not let me change the arrowhead size to a value greater than 500%. Is this a bug or an intentional limit? It seems from an older 1.x and now archived thread on the forum that this was a bug circa 2021 on windows.

thanks.

 

[MikeTO]

I'm able to set it much higher than 500% on macOS. Perhaps a Windows version limitation?

[carl123]

Logged in 2021

 

[Ron P.]

Well, it was logged to be investigated, not to be fixed. 😆

[Milo_D]

Just updated and tried again. Issue still persists in v2.5.7.

@Patrick Connor Requesting attention to this bug. 🙏

[Milo_D]

Any update on whether this issue?

It is very helpful to scale the line-ends through the setting panel as it allows for auto alignment of end shape (e.g. arrowhead) with the curve of the line it is attached to, versus having to draw an arrowhead separately and realign it with the attached line every time the line shape geometry is adjusted.

In complex diagrams with business flows with several lines and arrowheads, having to adjust the arrowhead and the line separately is twice the work and painful.

Also, if this issue does not exist on the Mac, then it may not be that hard to bring the Windows code base into parity with the Mac code base for this feature. 

thanks in advance.

 

[carl123]

If it helps you can increase the size of the arrowhead to whatever you want'

The line thickness will also increase but you can adjust just that part by adjusting the pressure curve in the stroke panel

And maybe saving the profile (preset) will help to quickly apply it to other lines

[MikeTO]

arrows.afdesign

Here's a quick file with 600 - 1500% arrows in 100% increments. I don't know if the arrow size will reset if you open this and modify a stroke attribute for one of these arrows but maybe this may be useful to you.

[Milo_D]

On 12/15/2024 at 10:58 AM, carl123 said:

If it helps you can increase the size of the arrowhead to whatever you want'

The line thickness will also increase but you can adjust just that part by adjusting the pressure curve in the stroke panel

And maybe saving the profile (preset) will help to quickly apply it to other lines

 

On 12/15/2024 at 11:05 AM, MikeTO said:

arrows.afdesign

Here's a quick file with 600 - 1500% arrows in 100% increments. I don't know if the arrow size will reset if you open this and modify a stroke attribute for one of these arrows but maybe this may be useful to you.

Thank you for the helpful suggestions - I will use these for now. For the affinity team - using the file @MikeTO provided the arrowhead at 700% opens, but any resizing reverts to the 500%.

-md