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Can’t figure out how to draw straight lines


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Hi,

I am new to designer on the iPad and need to draw straight lines.  I’m used to having a straight line tool but can’t seem to find one.  Also didn’t find a tutorial.

  Closest I have gotten is a rectangle with one zero dimension.  

Thanks!

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With the pen tool selected, look at the Context menu at the bottom. Change mode from Pen to Line in Mode drop menu.

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M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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I appreciate the help but in practice that is basically the same as drawing a rectangle and setting the height to zero, because what you get is a diagonal through a rectangle, not a line, until you set one dimension to zero, which feels cumbersome.  Unless there is a way to force it to vertical or horizontal that I haven’t found.

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2 hours ago, Farestone said:

that is basically the same as drawing a rectangle and setting the height to zero, because what you get is a diagonal through a rectangle, not a line, 

Can you show what you mean? I'm not sure I understand.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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