Bungle Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 How do you resize all layers in a group (Designer) When i resize the layers all resize differently and not in place as it were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 11, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2017 Hi Bungle. If there's frame text layers in the group you must use the lowest bottom right handle (the one that's detached from the group bounding box) to resize everything keeping their proportions. Currently it's not possible to scale objects in a group independently from each other keeping their relative positions - they all will be scaled as a single object. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungle Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 It doesnt scale as a single object, thats the problem, all the layers shift all over the place, no text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 11, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2017 That's weird. Can you please upload the file using this link so we can check if we can reproduce this here? All files will be deleted after being checked. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungle Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Its only a circle with a square, nothing special, but it all moves out of place, Oh FFS, just loaded up AD and redid the group, it works perfectly grrrrr, will save the file next time it happens (Has happened before, thats why i assumed it was normal) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lafonia Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Got the same issue, have a set of shapes that I cannot scale properly when I select all of them and resize they go all over the place and the same happens if I group them and do the same... I attached a project file... Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Many of the shapes in your file have corners defined by the Corner Tool. These are specified as an absolute size (like 0.125in) and hence they are not scaling as the shape is resized. This changes the shapes such that they no longer line up. Easy fix… select all the shapes, and then using the Corner Tool > Bake Corners. Will now resize just fine. A better fix would be for Affinity to upgrade the Corner Tool so that radii can be specified as a percentage, which will scale with the object. See… Lafonia 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lafonia Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Sweet! thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Aammppaa said: A better fix would be for Affinity to upgrade the Corner Tool so that radii can be specified as a percentage, which will scale with the object. That sounds simple enough, but how would you decide what the corner percentage radius for each of the nodes of an irregular shape like this one should be that would preserve its shape when scaled? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 It is a good question. In the rounded rectangle tool (where percentages already exist as an option) the percentage seems to relate to length of the shortest side. Obviously this will not work for an irregular shape. I guess that the units aren't what is important here. The desired function is that the corner scales and remains editable with the corner tool. So if my corner initially has a radius of 5mm I should be able to tick a box to Scale with Shape (just as I can in Stroke and Effects Panels). Then when a resize occurs, the radius is simply recalculated relative to the amount of rescaling. If I increase the size of the shape by 3.456% then the radius is also increased by 3.456%. That would work wouldn't it? And if I want an absolute radius, we just retain the bahaviour as it currently exists. R C-R 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, Aammppaa said: So if my corner initially has a radius of 5mm I should be able to tick a box to Scale with Shape (just as I can in Stroke and Effects Panels). Then when a resize occurs, the radius is simply recalculated relative to the amount of rescaling. If I increase the size of the shape by 3.456% then the radius is also increased by 3.456%. That would work wouldn't it? It sounds like that should work but it could get complicated if (as some users are almost certain to request) that this option should be available on a per node basis, so some node radii could scaled by percent while others retain their absolute radii. Still, the all or none option would be useful, so if it has not already been requested, maybe you should add that to the feature request forum.... Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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