Quick node selection and alignment

[Sebastiano Basile -Avola]

Good morning everyone.

Question: For example, often, I need to make a quick multiple selection of the nodes of some lines (I do a lot of formatting) and then align all the nodes down while the start of the line has to be stopped.

Is it possible in affinity designer?

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[gdenby]

Hi, basile,

 

No. AD does not do that. You might notice that the alignment tools are only available when objects are selected. AD offers snapping tools, which allows nodes to snap/ align  in various ways, such as when aligned with another objet's geometry.

 

In AD, the approach that would be simple would be to draw a single line, and power duplicate it. 

[Sebastiano Basile -Avola]

Too bad it can not do this.
It would be nice to at least to quickly select all the multiple nodes then move them simultaneously.

[gdenby]

I suppose it might be nice, tho' I've never had a reason to do so. I'm supposing from your post you want equal length lines for text flowing. Again, just make 1 line and duplicate that. Toss out the lines that aren't what you need.

 

If you feel it is needful, make a feature request. Myself, a blend tool, or a mesh warp would be orders of magnitude more used. For instance, to flow text along a series of curves whose inflection changes in an orderly manner.