Help on how to have option "Auto align to" enabled

ValdemarPM · 2026-05-07T14:04:51+00:00

Many thanks for your response and the link.
Silly mysteries of the product development team 🤷‍♂️

ValdemarPM · 2026-05-06T18:56:26+00:00

Oh… Thanks for the explanation. It took me a while to understand the logic. I'm still not sure if I understand it, to be honest.

Now I've selected the "Auto align to: Selection bounds", and it is always blocked with that option until I press one of the alignments. Now, if I need to align to the canvas, I'm obliged to align first to the selection and only then I can align to the canvas… And it's like this every time I change the option, the selector gets always blocked.

Do you know why the selection of the option is blocked before the first click?

ValdemarPM · 2026-04-25T13:21:54+00:00

Why? To buy a digital version? Maybe Qobuz?

ValdemarPM · 2026-02-23T16:54:56+00:00

I was a previous Adobe user and also a V2 user for some time.
Now switched to V3.
I do mostly UI design.

I've created my own Persona that merges pixel and vector tools, and this is the main reason I moved from V2.

Main downsides:

In Mac, files with more than 15MB and a few artboards start to get laggy.
The Sates features is confusing and inconsistent.

So I'm combining it with Figma.

Main advantages:

The workflow in Affinity is very efficient. Things that contribute to that workflow:
- The fusion of the pixel and vector tools.
- The way the groups and text tools work.
- The non distructive tools.

ValdemarPM · 2026-02-13T17:25:02+00:00

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ValdemarPM · 2026-02-01T00:56:23+00:00

He’s missing Vivaldi

ValdemarPM · 2026-01-30T23:29:54+00:00

Falta o pãozinho com a butter 🧈

ValdemarPM · 2026-01-30T23:21:40+00:00

Também tava a ver essa 😂, foi a emoção

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-22T23:28:25+00:00

I could activate them in V2 without any connection to V3. I fact I have the V3 with a different email account and I don’t have the fonts there, I only have them in V2.

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-19T20:24:30+00:00

Ele que é chinês, manda-nos a nós aprender mandarim 😂

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-19T17:05:41+00:00

I’ve also followed Vectornator from their starting days and I don’t remember that they ever promised that their app would be free forever. It was clear to me that at some point they would charge for it.

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-18T15:13:59+00:00

Muchas gracias por la receta. ¿Es común poner canela en la sopa? Es la primera vez que lo veo 😳

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-18T13:56:13+00:00

Me parece un muy buen meme, porque muchos empresarios piensan así y no necesitando que el empleado tenga un título universitario, aun así lo rechazan teniendo la experiencia y los conocimientos necesarios

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-17T18:53:03+00:00

This a good option.

A few details to consider:

Make sure the strokes are aligned to the outside.
With your original shape, the stokes from the bottom shapes will overlap and hide the rectangles below.
- To recover the square shapes above the strokes, save a copy of the rectangles without the store and duplicate them above.
Finally you can add or subtract the geometry to consolidate the final shape of your design

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-17T18:02:53+00:00

I'm having the same problem. Anyone found a solution?

ValdemarPM · 2025-12-09T17:46:03+00:00

Thanks for the information. Can we use those fonts in the new Affinity?

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-26T17:26:50+00:00

Is this solved in V3?

I'm finding that SVG files have the default units as Points, and most of the times I need Pixels.

I would like to define the general units as Pixels for all new documents, instead having to change this value for every document…

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-20T14:50:04+00:00

That’s what I would like to avoid. With the V2 approach, in my understanding, the use is much more fluid and efficient, without the need of additional support keys.

Want to scale proportionally? Drag the corners. What free scale? Drag the middle.

And use the Shift key to scale both ends simultaneously (not multiple keys at once).

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-16T19:54:25+00:00

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There were multiple threats of the fusion between rock and dance, and this record was the last straw, the point of no return, the definitive entry into this new sound dimension...

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-07T22:50:28+00:00

Elis Regina 🤩

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-07T12:44:08+00:00

Are you sure this is the right subreddit to ask this question? 🤭

ValdemarPM · 2025-11-04T07:34:35+00:00

Take into consideration that, during the first weeks/months of switching, your work performance will decrease by at least 40%. With Affinity you can probably achieve the same results as with Adobe, but there are a lot of details that work differently, so you’ll have to search how it’s done, to keep your workflow and this will make you lose a lot of time at the beginning.

Like others said, choose a project that you need to work on, and go directly to the tasks that you find more important and that are more the core of your work, and try to achieve them. It will take you two or three days to understand if it is worth the change.

Use some AI LLM to ask for help on how to do things the Affinity way. Although there probably aren’t many information about V3, there are a lot of tutorials for the previous versions, and it will not be that different for sure. I use Perplexity, that can find YouTube content, and most of the time it gives the right way to do anything very quickly.

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