davorin Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Evenin' As a new AD/AP and soon publisher user I would like to know if there are any plans to enhance mirror, rotate or skew tools like I was used to it on Illustrator for decades now Copy/rotate an object is clear to me...though takes more steps in AD... The mirror tool only allows on vertical or horizontal axis... In Illustrator you just select an object, option-click anywhere you want the rotate/mirror point...and in the popup you specify the angle of rotation or the mirror axis...select copy or not...and you could see a preview... Never figured out in AD how to mirror/copy an object this easily... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2018 Hi davorin, Thanks for your feedback. Regarding skewing and rotating you can do it with the Move Tool directly on canvas. With an object selected, place the mouse cursor over the bounding box corner handles coming from the outside. At some point the cursor will change to a rotate cursor - click and drag at that point to rotate the object. Same for skewing when approaching the middle bounding box handles from outside - the cursor will change to two opposite arrows - click and drag to skew the object. You can use use the Transform panel (R and S fields on bottom) to input specific values manually. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davorin Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Well I am aware how to rotate an object with the handles...or use the transform tool... But this weekend I had to copy mirror a design on a specific vertical axis to get a symmetrical design...this can only be done complicated with an additional path on the mirror axis.. You can't mirror/copy objects on an arbitrary point at an orbitrary angle with ease like in Illustrator...not to mention the preview mode... Have you ever looked at this how Illustrator does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2018 Hi davorin, Yes, i know how Illustrator works but this is not availbale in Designer that's why i've not commented about it (this request it's already in the Feature Requests section where it should be). I wasn't sure you were aware of the bounding box handles behaviour (skew specially as rotate is the same as Illustrator) so i mentioned it just in case. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davorin Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Ah okay... Is there or are there plans on a "how to move from illustrator to AD" guide? Since this is one of the main audience, or what I experienced from online media about your products, it might help other people who want to migrate away from Adobe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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