northwest.nina Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 I have a 10.5 iPad Pro and my last update on Affinity Designer was Oct 20th. This issue seems to only get worse for me? It's counter intuitive to how I work and I swear I spend half of my time trying to select and move items only to accidentally resize and transform them just to hit undo and repeat over and over until it finally works. I REALLY need an option to JUST move an object when I want to move one, and a separate option to transform... or at least a way to disable transforming an object in the sub-menu for the move tool. This is driving me crazy and I've gone from thrilled to finally have Designer on my iPad to disappointed that it's still way faster to work on my computer with a Wacom tablet I really don't want to use anymore! Phil K., DM1 and SandraM 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brkplt Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 This is the biggest let down otherwise wonderful app. Needs an immediate update. It makes me stressed while working. A lot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emptyful Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 New member here, just adding my 2 cents. I LOVE Designer on the iPad, but this behavior is maddening. I'm running out of new and creative swears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 People have been reporting this issue since July. Still no solution. Phil K. 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willbilly Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Having this issue as well. Basically unusable. Phil K. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulix Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Sorry, but this is just ridiculous. It‘s impossible to do serious work like that, since I keep resizing all the time, being required to do workarounds, slowing me drastically down. This issue hasn’t been fixed since months, nobody even cares to comment on this topic, yet it is such an obvious thing to implement. I really loved what Affinity did on the Mac, but their iPad app is just a mess. No nudge controls, entering manual values works half the time, duplication comes with a 1 sec delay, and and and... Phil K. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil K. Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 At this stage of the game the issue has been occurring for at least 4 months, it might be necessary to leave a review on the AppStore for this app. They claim the app to be a high quality precision vector application but they can’t even get a basic fundamental editing feature to work correctly. Maybe a review might wake up Serif to this issue, but I’m not holding my breath. fabiogil 1 Quote iPad Pro 9.7” (A1674), Affinity Designer for iPad 1.6.4.45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil K. Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 So much for leaving an AppStore review. Someone already did and the response was disappointing fabiogil 1 Quote iPad Pro 9.7” (A1674), Affinity Designer for iPad 1.6.4.45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Please, please, please address this, QA or developers! Zooming in is not a solution, it is a work around. Let me have another button under the Selection tool which just hides these knobs and completely prevents resizing. Why not? - People move objects at the very least as much as they resize, if not more; so having resize be prioritized just baffles my mind. Phil K. and Skippy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandraM Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 My current workaround is to keep the Apple Pencil at a very small tilt angle. It's not a 100% solution, but better than nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelicateGenius Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Doesn’t seem that complicated to me. Affinity peeps, just do this please. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Lol, yours is fixed, now we just need Serif devs to add it to ours. SandraM, Phil K. and DelicateGenius 1 2 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabiogil Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 @DelicateGeniusI don’t like this solution... as a PRO tool, the app must be accurate. Simple as that. A solution as that for me is unacceptable... Phil K. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierre.vandwalle Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Same problem here, also I don’t even really understand all the icons that are in the move tool menu? Video tutorials don’t explain this... Is there a documentation somewhere that at least mention each icon? - What is the bottom right icon, with a small eye inside the square for example? - what is the difference between Select Under and Select Inside? On the screenshot, I’m trying to select and move the groups composed of those three blue dots and it’s basically impossible without zooming ver far in, even with the pen. In addition I can’t quite ensure that the group of three dots remain selected, that is if I select the group, then accidentally clicking on one of the dot yank the selection from the group being selected, to that single blue dot being selected. Is there a way to lock the selection (i.e. locking what is selected), so as to ensure a consistent behavior? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 As I understand it, 'Select Inside' allows you to tap to select nested objects. Whereas, 'Select Under' allows you to select objects ‘hidden’ below other objects. Paul Mudditt 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Also an issue for me and slows down my workflow. Affinity, could this be added as an issue to somehow fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaime Mendola-Hobbie Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 I was having the same problem, and while this isn’t a perfect fix, it’s workable. If you select your layer with the arrow/direct selection tool and the instead of dragging your image to where you want to reposition it, you drag on the art board (the area outside of your active canvas), which moves your selected item seamlessly. Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 On 3/15/2019 at 6:45 AM, pierre.vandwalle said: Same problem here, also I don’t even really understand all the icons that are in the move tool menu? Video tutorials don’t explain this... Is there a documentation somewhere that at least mention each icon? - DM1 1 Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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