Dashed/Dotted line behaviour

[SirWillibald]

Hi,

been using Designer for quite some time now and couldn't be happier that I left Adobe Illustrator behind. However, I have a minor problem and I can't find a solution in AD for this. A picture says a thousand words.

In Illustrator, there was an option to have each dashed/dotted line be drawn the same way at the start and end point (don't know, what it was called, hope you understand what I mean). I've tried to recreate this behaviour in AD, but I can't find a solution, the joints always look somewhat messy. I know, it's a minor and mostly cosmetical problem, but it bugs me...

All lines in the picture are seperate, joining them doesn't help, obviously.

[firstdefence]

Affinity doesn't have that Adobe Illustrator feature, you could try using the phase option to adjust alignment.

This is what you are talking about, it doesn't really have a name, more a long tooltip.

Included a screenshot so people understand the question 

[SirWillibald]

Yes, thanks for the visual help with my feeble try to explain to Illustrator way. That's exactly what I meant. I just don't have access to Illustrator any more.

Will give the phase function a try, thank you!

[firstdefence]

No Problem, It's hard to describe something that people either have never seen and or doesn't actually have a name, it also helps others understand the question and maybe learn, then think Affinity should have that feature and nag the devs to death to have it lol! I had to open illustrator up to see if it had a name I suppose we could use the acronym ADTCAPEALTF lol!

Just been on Adobe Illustrator help and from what I have read that tool tip is the name lol!

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, SirWillibald said:

Will give the phase function a try, thank you!

As you probably quickly will see, it is very 'fiddly' & not a very good solution for this 'align to fit' issue.  

[SirWillibald]

9 minutes ago, R C-R said:

As you probably quickly will see, it is very 'fiddly' & not a very good solution for this 'align to fit' issue.  

Hmm... Already tried that, you're more than right. The result is OK, but very time consuming if you have multiple lines like I have.

OK, where "nag the devs to death"?

[firstdefence]

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-suggestions-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/

[MEB]

Hi SirWillibald,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
The dev team is aware of this (missing) functionality. It was requested a few times here in the forums. I'm checking if we have an improvement request logged for this already and I will fill one if not. It's then up to the dev team o decide if/when implement it.