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Clearer Proportional scaling preferences


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Something that drove me crazy for a long time was that in Affinity some object scale proportionally by default (making them scale proportionally when you hold shift) while other objects are the other way around. I looked for a long time for a way to change this behavior but didn't. I also looked for a way to enable "scale from center" using the option key, but didn't find that either and gave up. Only much later I found that you can scale from the center using command (on mac) and that there is an option to make proportional scaling behavior consistent, in 'Preferences > Tools' and change the "Move Tool Aspect Constrain" setting to "Do not constrain by default".

However, this was at least to me quite unclear. So my proposal would be to introduce a new preferences section called "Scaling behavior" with one option regarding the proportional scaling constraint behavior and what modifier key should be used to trigger that, and one setting for the scale from center behavior and what modifier key should be used for that.

 

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Well, yes. Perhaps a more thorough reorganization of the preferences would be a solution to this specific problem as well. But that I think would be a bigger undertaking, which could delay fixing this more specific problem with scaling behavior.

I'm not saying that the current default approach with proportional scaling as default for some objects is bad, but I think it's one of these things that will annoy and put people off when they're migrating from a long time of Illustrator usage. And when there is actually a simple setting to get this to work the way you want it seems a pity it's so difficult to find.

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