heikehk Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Is there a possibility to crop a document using the Crop Tool? Thanks heike dangerman2000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 We don't offer the ability to crop the document using the Crop Tool for Designer at the moment. Affinity Photo's Crop tool does crop the document so we might look at combining these tools to offer both. LilleG, Three and MadMak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ash Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 Guess there's a few options which achieves a similar result depending on use case: Select all the objects in your doc (layers tab - choose "Edit all layers" then hit cmd-A) and group them (cmd-G), then you'll be able to crop. Puts all your stuff in a group which might not be desirable. Save your doc, then start a new one and embed your saved doc in it (File -> Place). You'll then be able to crop that as if it were an image (can always double click on it if you want to edit the doc itself). if it's just because you want to export a smaller part of the doc as an image - go to the export persona and create a slice of the area you want to export and do it that way... brunzenstein 1 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ash Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 Oh, or you could manually enter the size of the area you want to crop to in File - Document Set up, and then move all the objects in your doc to position as you want... Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heikehk Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 Something like changing the Drawing Area similar to the possibility to do this in illustrator would be perfect for me. I was just irritated to see the cropping toll without the funcktionality for the whole document. But as i said a kind of adjusting the drawing area with a tool like in illustrator would be nice for me too. I wil test your suggestions in the next days. Thanks a lot Heike Mr. Review 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boudewijndanser Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I was playing around with the cropping tool too. Dragging an area in your document and hitting enter, Mac makes bleep sound, hit enter again, same bleep... Hmmm... :huh: I was expecting "standard crop functionality" because the tool looks like that, because that's what I'm used too. ;) Three 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fperez Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I think the "whole document" crop tool is a must. Since it exist in the "File - Document Set up" it is somehow a matter of adding a GUI to this function. thanks in advace, keep up the good work, Franck Three 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonbeetle Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 +1 for cropping/fitting the document to the content (which goes a step further than just cropping, but cropping the whole document would be useful as well) EDIT Feb 16th 2015 : Any update on this? Despite how much I like Affinity Designer, the current cropping tool isn't at all what I'm used to from Fireworks and frankly causes me to go back FW more than I would like to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge07 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 That's basic functionality for a graphic app in my eyes, so definitely +1 for this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heikehk Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 Is there anything new about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 11, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2015 Not yet @heikehk. There's still other things taking priority. We will get there... Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
src Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 +1 for this feature getting higher priority. For casual designers like me, we don't know the right size of the image until we have the content and not being able to crop the document to fit the contents is annoying. dannyj 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btribble Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Fit artboard to selection? This is a massive missing feature! +1 MadMak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footof Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Yes, it's a bit frustrating not having a basic feature like cropping, but there's an easy way to do it — create a rectangle, imagine this is your crop area, resize it according to your needs, then just remember the size of the rectangle and resize your document to these measures. Move everything (if necessary) till the rectangle borders hit the borders of a new document. This is really almost as easy as a regular crop. Second option is just open the document in Affinity Photo and crop it with a crop tool, save and go back to Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btribble Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Yeah, did basically this. Long-winded hacky workaround though! Come on Affinity, Designer is such a great app in many ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 We don't offer the ability to crop the document using the Crop Tool for Designer at the moment. Affinity Photo's Crop tool does crop the document so we might look at combining these tools to offer both. Yes, please combine these. It's confusing for those of us who move back and forth between Designer and Photo when a tool (unnecessarily) works differently in each. Petar Petrenko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovoflud Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 +1 on this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Fireworks has a function (including simple keyboard shortcuts) to either trim or fit the canvas (artboard) to the size of all objects or selected objects. Command+Option+T will trim the canvas, Command+Option+F will fit it. I would very much like such functionality in AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socapex Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 +1, Skitch/Apple Photos crop tools are solid, worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dams Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 guys, I agree with others. It has now been 2y and still no way to crop an image? Come on. This is a basic need when you do UI design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kassim Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Bought this recently and seem pretty impressive but desperately need to be able to crop the canvas size please!!!! eduweb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whistlerdan Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 +100 How can it take years to get around to a crop tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMG Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 OH MY GOD is this feature necessary and desperately so! eduweb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npmc Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 +1, this is definitely required! Not sure how it can take 2 years to include a crop tool? Hopefully you guys can work it out soon! :) eduweb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugo bertrand Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Is there an update on this? Mr. Review and eduweb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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