One (first) day with Affinity Designer

[Kleduts]

Hi,

 

I have worked during one day to test or to evaluate the possibilities of Affinity Designer.

 

First : no crash during this (very long) session : Good job !

 

But, I have some difficulties :

- I don't found the posiibility to copy/paste a color (and only the color) or to copy/paste an effect. It's... laborious. :-)

 

- Some bahavior are strange : when I resize on object, I use the Shift key to respect the ratio. When I resize a text, I use the Shift key NOT TO respect the ratio.

 

- I don't find the possibility to align an object to an other one without moving the second one. I don't success what I want to do.

 

- when I type a precise value in an input field (for sizing an object for example), if touch the top of my mouse : the value is changed !!! It's very very boring ;-)

 

 

Well done, it's sorme ergonomic details. Of course, I appreciate that coulod be solve... yesterday ;-)

Thank you for this very powerful product.

 

Thank's for your help

 

Fabrice - From Bordeaux (France)

 

PS : An other suggestion : translate it in french !!!!

 

PS 2 : http://www.plannning-medical.com ( The logo was created with Affinity Designer, the previous version and the other graphics elements was created with Illustrator).

[MEB]

Hello Kleduts,

Welcome to Affinity Forums.

 

1- It's not possible to copy and paste a color or an effect individually to another object in this first version yet. As a workaround you can use the color picker to pick the color from an object and apply it to another;

 

2- This is by design and works like this: objects that have an inherent ratio/proportion like images or text (where most of the time you don't want to distort them) scale naturally without the need to press shift. Objects that don't have a pre-defined ratio/proportion like shapes, require that you press shift to keep their proportions;

 

3- This was requested a couple of times already but wasn't implemented yet;

 

4- This is by design. This allows you to fill/change values with the mouse, dragging in up or down to increase/decrease the value.

[Kleduts]

Hi Meb,

 

Thank's for your reply.

 

1- ok

2- I was suprised by this behavior. I understand the reason. It's just a feedback.

3- ok

4- Why don't try to "detect" the behhavior of the user. For example : if he changes the value with the keyboard, he can't change it again with the mouse before 1 second.

 

Best regads

 

F. - From Bordeaux (France)