![]() People coming from competing products to your platform will feel more enticed to switch since the boundary for transitioning is a lot lower if there is less you have to learn.Your tool is used by professionals to make their job easier, having shortcuts makes one able to do their tasks at least twice as fast, therefore makes your tool twice as effective….To add to this in a more appealing way to product designers: I don’t really understand how this is the case because Sketch uses the same system preferences dialogue to let you setup custom shortcuts but there it is working fine for almost all keys. I am on Mac yet more than half of my shortcuts are not working. The first thing I do after getting to know the tool a bit is to change the shortcuts to how I am used to them, given they have the same functionality as in previous tools I’ve been using. How is this not a standard thing yet? As someone coming from Sketch I am thrilled to start exploring Figma. ![]() This affects every non-US customers daily Figma workflow and I do not understand how no-one in the team is embarrassed by this long known (and partially solved) issue. Rant: Not caring about different keyboard layouts is a clear oversight on accessibility and global market. So instead of telling them “you can customize everything” give them proper guidance. I would like more people to start using Figma and not being overwhelmed or confused by completely wrong shortcuts. I call this a low-hanging fruit for Figmas product team but they don’t seem to careĬustomizing shortcuts is a great feature but mostly for hardcore users. Non-US users will at least have some sort of guidance through shortcut jungle mess. Simply copy the cheat-sheets I built almost 2 years ago. Once you figure it out (it’s a little tedious, but possible) the least Figma could do is to show the non-US shortcuts in the onscreen UI Helper. The keys are NOT just tied to a location on the keyboard, but specific hardware keycodes. Here’s my 2 cents (over and over again) regarding WIN key mappings: It would also give the user more control over the tool and their workflow. I think this could be a game-changer, as i’ve seen people who refused to migrate from other tools to Figma because they couldn’t customize shortcuts. It’s also not a possibility for Windows users. ![]() It would be nice if the tool itself provided some sort of customization on this regard.Īlthough being a workaround, Mac users can customize keyboard shortcuts by application, but it is a bit limited. This makes the user adapt their workflow to the tool, and not the other way around - and that hinders efficiency. On this forum post, a member of the community asked for help on backing one layer level with a different shortcut from what Figma has right now. Now you can switch between methods in both InDesign and Illustrator without ever taking your hands off the keyboard and join the ranks of the master composers (wig not included).And here’s an example of confusing shortcuts:Īlthough this problem could be solved by just rebinding the shortcuts to the actual character and not the location on the keyboard, I’ve noticed there are some other issues concerning key bindings. Select each one, type in the shortcut you want to use, and click Assign. Scroll down until you see the Paragraph Panel commands, which include the composers. ![]() In the Product Area menu choose Panel Menus. Then, in the dialog box choose or create a new custom shortcut set. The only twist is that you’ll have to create two shortcuts, one for the Paragraph Composer and one for the Single-Line Composer, since InDesign has no command to toggle between them.Ĭhoose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. No similar shortcut exists in InDesign, but there’s nothing stopping you from making something similar. All you have to do is use the built-in keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C (Windows) Command+Shift+Option+C (macOS). While the Every-Line/Paragraph Composer generally works quite well, there are cases when the quickest solution to fix a bad rag/break is to switch to the Single-Line Composer. The Single-Line composer only looks at one line at a time. Like InDesign’s Paragraph Composer, Illustrator’s Every-Line Composer takes every line in the paragraph into account to try and make the most pleasing appearance. These are the methods that Illustrator uses to compose paragraph text by determining where to break lines. Single-Line Composer) with a keyboard shortcut. Snap to Glyph is pretty nifty, too.īut I recently discovered another cool-but-obscure type feature that I wish InDesign had: the ability to toggle between composers (Every-Line Composer vs. Sure, there are a few things, like the Touch Type tool, and the ability to apply rotation to a single character. When it comes to typographic tools, InDesign users don’t have much to envy in Illustrator.
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