SirWillibald Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 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. Markio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 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 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirWillibald Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 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! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 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. Markio 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirWillibald Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 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"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-suggestions-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/ Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 1, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 1, 2019 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. Markio and firstdefence 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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