Alexis Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Affinity Designer need this feature: SELECT same color objects jamesholden and Krustysimplex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sciGR Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 I just downloaded the trial version of Affinity Designer (Windows) to give it a spin. Guess I don't need the full 10 days - 5 mins were enough to eliminate AD as a potential AI replacement, as without a "Select all with same X" feature this software is next to useless (as least for what I would use it regularly). Too bad. I did love its overall performance, totally beats AI there. Ian Tindale and Elma 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, sciGR said: I just downloaded the trial version of Affinity Designer (Windows) to give it a spin. Guess I don't need the full 10 days - 5 mins were enough to eliminate AD as a potential AI replacement, as without a "Select all with same X" feature this software is next to useless (as least for what I would use it regularly). Too bad. I did love its overall performance, totally beats AI there. To be fair, Adobe Illustrator has been around for a lot longer than AD. But yeah, I would like to get a select all / magic wand feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airguitarbandit Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, Fatih19 said: To be fair, Adobe Illustrator has been around for a lot longer than AD. But yeah, I would like to get a select all / magic wand feature. To be fair, this ticket has been open for years. This is BASIC. robinp, furtonb, Elma and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 1 minute ago, airguitarbandit said: To be fair, this ticket has been open for years. This is BASIC. Yeah, I myself kind of confused why they don't implement this earlier. It might be that they are figuring out codes that works fast at doing that or adding their own implementation (special functionality). Adobe Illustrator also has some basic stuff that only recently added such as control over the size of anchor point. furtonb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sciGR Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 1 minute ago, airguitarbandit said: To be fair, this ticket has been open for years. This is BASIC. This! This is an essential and VERY easy to implement feature: just grab whatever feature is wanted from the currently selected item and traverse the tree. Done. While we are at it: Another hard to miss feature: Select a bunch of objects, click one of them to designate as the reference object, then do whatever alignment on them. And no, to use a dropdown menu to select first/last is just not cutting it. Again, rather easy to implement. Before adding more complex features, Serif should rather focus on usability. Because without the latter, the former don't matter. furtonb, Pixel and Poly, Pioof and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannah Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 yesssss, i need that too! I start to be afraid, when my designs in ADe become more complex and I have to select averything that looks the same by hand... Elma 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metajake Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 +2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freid Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 oh ! +1 +1 +1 +1 Its essential in production. It should be a major priority. robinp and predick 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ttleCat Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 6 hours ago, Freid said: oh ! +1 +1 +1 +1 Its essential in production. It should be a major priority. I agree but it seems the importance is not understood. It's been 4 years since the first post. predick and Renfield 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 13 hours ago, B4ttleCat said: I agree but it seems the importance is not understood. It's been 4 years since the first post. Importance is only part of the story. Exporting editable text to PSD format is important, interpreting fonts embedded in PDF files is important, proper handling of right-to-left languages is important, and a host of other features might also be on any given user’s “important” list, but some of those things are difficult and some are currently impossible. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschenk Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 +1 for me too. I purchased Designer several months ago, and find it very difficult to work without this feature. If I am creating my own work from scratch I can work around it, but not when dealing with files created by other software. For example: deleting or restyling the roads on a map, restyling the data points or grid an infographic, or setting up artwork for laser cutting (which uses different colors and fills to tell the machine what to do). Malauch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadCat Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 +1 and then some. Joined the forum just to post this. I downloaded the trial version of Designer and within a short space of time I knew it was a good enough product to buy (especially on sale). During the trial I just created my own documents and played around with the different tools. I was impressed. After installing the purchased version, the very first document I opened up was an existing document I had been working on in Ai, a map from a GIS program. Went to try and "select by lineweight" and realised I couldn't. Nor by color, or or any other attribute. Ain't no way I can click-select thousands of objects by hand! I am not a programmer, and have been blown away by what your team has done at this price point, but this feature just seems like a very simple sort and select algorithm to implement even in a rudimentary form? I agree that basic functionality like this is an absolute must for any production or even casual environment and am surprised and dismayed to find it absent even after years of asking. airguitarbandit, Malauch, furtonb and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 16, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 16, 2018 Hi MadCat, Welcome to Affinity Forums Selection by attributes is already planned for a future version. We have a small team/limited resources so we have to prioritise/balance things according to our development plans, dependency on other features already or still being developed/finished, users requests as well as other variables. The dev teams are already doing the best they can to close those gaps/missing features as possible. Please bear with us while we work to expand/improve the app. cuibonobo, woefi, matisso and 2 others 4 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 +1 to this. I really need this feature for complex illustrations. Having to select each individually is a chore. I like AD a heck of a lot more than illustrator for most things, so having to fire up my old illustrator CS5 again to do this is disappointing. It has been in the pipeline for so long now, but I consider this one of the basic for a good vector program. I know you have limited resources, but this one has more practical use than a line stabilizer, for instance. Renfield and furtonb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murex-13 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 from a printer view this features is essential Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioof Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I'm coming back to see if there had been any progress on this issue. But no. You have limited resources, right, but also wrong priorities I'm afraid. This is perplexing to me. You are probably catering to your existing user base, but you should understand that adding basic functionality would expand that user base significantly. Anyway, still on AI CS6. Renfield, B4ttleCat, furtonb and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ttleCat Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 7:30 AM, MEB said: Please bear with us while we work to expand/improve the app. We've been "bearing with you" for quite literally 4 years for a planned feature. This is absurd. If I didn't give a rats about Affinity Designer (or Serif in general) I wouldn't be here badgering you, but I do care. It's not only impossible to stop using Adobe products for missing features like this, it's also impossible to genuinely recommend to serious users. furtonb, Malauch and coZ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coZ Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I recommended your product to several people in architecture/planning. The missing select same feature is essentially for us, as we often work on maps or exported PDF/Dwgs with a lot of lines and polygones. Please add this feature and you will attract a lot more users. Malauch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadedesign Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Still waiting for this feature - it's essential and should be straightforward. Can't ditch IIlustrator without it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jamesholden Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 On 9/15/2018 at 11:55 AM, >|< said: Since it hasn't been added to the Designer Road Map over the last four years, I think we can forget about it appearing before version 2.x, which is probably more than two years away. I do hope you are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinela Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Please add this essential feature, I'm finding ways around other problems but it's very hard to work selecting the objects one by one. jamesholden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Jimmy Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 This is the only reason I’ve not bought the Desktop version as I cannot use this app without this feature. I purchased the iOS app as a test. jamesholden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyleandjaz Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I concur! Please add my vote to the resounding voice of the community who'd like to see this feature. Without it, I use and promote AI over AD. jamesholden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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