vdamjanovski Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hi Affinity team. I am using Affinity for Mac, both the Designer and Photo, almost full time now. I have happily uninstalled Adobe software and found I can live without the dreaded Illustrator and I can create my artwork much better with the Designer. I am still learning the Affinity Photo, but I am happy I don't depend on Adobe's monthly payment. One important but missing thing in the Designer is the measuring tool. I design a variety of things, including test charts (as included in this as attachment) which require precision and details. To achieve the precision I need to have info at glance when a select/draw lines or shapes like squares for example, and I need to know their exact dimensions (in mm or pixels). This seems to be very difficult if not impossible. I am getting a work around by seeing the info at the bottom right in the Transform window, but nothing is straight forward as I need to make calculations between x and y coordinate to find out the length of a single line for example. Also, I found it frustrating that I can't move the origin of the coordinated system (0,0) top left hand corner to anywhere I like in the screen and start measuring things from a new origin. Why is this so difficult to implement such a simple function in a beautiful program like Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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