NOTE 1: Anywhere the Illustrator Equivalent was mapped, the default Affinity Designer shortcut may have been affected or removed. So I made this respond to the "C" tool, and disassociated the corner tool. This is not a standard tool in Illustrator or a conventional reassignment in Affinity but I seem to be bringing a lot of pixel images onto my canvas and want to crop them.Toggles with the Node Tool using the "A" key.It is just bound to "O" and toggles with the Contour tool Does not respond to Shift-O like Illustrator.Note: I have only tested this for very basic compound paths.Make a compound, and then select "subtract" in Affinity's layer palette for the item you just compounded. You can achieve the same thing, but there is an extra step to get Illustrator's default behavior. Beware: compound paths behave a differently in Affinity than Illustrator.It's less of a hurdle for me since I use duplicate and Transform again a lot, and they are related functions. So it seemed to make the most sense to me for this shortcut to map this to CMD-D in Affinity. And some other apps use CMD-D for duplicate. Illustrator uses CMD-J for "join paths" and CMD-D for "transform again." Affinity Designer contains its "Transform Again" feature as a subordinate function of Duplicate.You're likely transitioning between Adobe and Affinity for good, so it might make more sense to just learn the way Affinity does it.īut here are some of the wins as I see it – items that activate more closely to key functions in Illustrator (as of CC 2021): I think there are a non-trivial number of differences between the apps, such that a mapping between them creates a Frankenstein-ian problem: the set of shortcuts is neither Illustrator, nor Designer. So frankly, I'm not sure it's the best, or going to help much. I didn't really spend all that much time on it, and I am very new to Affinity Designer. I went through and made a shortcut preset file for Affinity Designer, attempting to map its functions to my best-guess equivalents for Illustrator.
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