Trying to add a second line 0.2 inches in the "perpendicular" direction of the first in Affinity Designer.

[MEB]

Hi thomaso,
Currently both the Pen and Point Transform Tool tools offers local snapping options in the context toolbar - check the tooltips they should make clear what each one does - (besides the general/global options in the Snapping Manager).

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Ah!, the Point Transform Tool even shows snapping if I have snapping disabled in the snapping options window. Very good to know! – How did you get that info, just by try and error? The help article appears rather poor with such secret but important knowledge, doesn't it?

For me it was trial & error, as it has been for many of the what I will charitably choose to call "under-documented" features of the Affinity apps.

[thomaso]

5 hours ago, MEB said:

Currently both the Pen and Point Transform Tool tools offers local snapping options in the context toolbar - check the tooltips they should make clear what each one does - (besides the general/global options in the Snapping Manager).

Thanks, MEB, to point me to these tool bar options + tooltips. In the meantime I also noticed that the snapping subject in the Help is spread/devided to various spots – though I still did not read about the cmd-key to make the rotation tool icon appear and avoid scaling while rotation.

Possibly in AfDesigner you might want to implement an additional tooltip bar which mentions the possible modifier keys and their function – as it exists in AfPublisher at the bottom of the main window (right to the page no.)

 

5 hours ago, R C-R said:

what I will charitably choose to call "under-documented" features of the Affinity apps. 

Nice wording. Yes, I really would appreciate a Reference Manual, printed or pdf, which includes – besides all help articles – additionally content about features which do exist but still aren't in the help yet.

Un- or weak documented features seem to be kind of waste of developer effort & they increase the number of user questions & possibly even user frustration. Documentation would invest in those various pots. During betas there has been a thread about localisation issues, after a while the moderator asked not to post issues related to the help. Nowadays I wonder why Help issues are no main thread, at least in the beta forum.

[MEB]

It's already available in Designer as well when you are in regular mode (not Separated mode) at the bottom of the interface. It lists all modifiers for all tools including the rotate cmd modifier to just rotate the object in the Point Transform Tool.

[thomaso]

3 minutes ago, MEB said:

available in Designer as well (...) (not Separated mode)

Thank you. – Oh, this limitation is a pity. Is there any specific reason that it does work in Separate Mode in Publisher but not in Designer? Or would it need a feature request?

[MEB]

It was implemented first in Publisher and wasn't ported back to Designer nor Photo. I believe this is already logged but I will check it out just to make sure.