You can quickly access common tools using a hardware keyboard, if one is connected to your iPad.
While the default keyboard shortcuts broadly follow industry standards and common use in other apps, it's possible to customise your keyboard shortcuts exactly to your liking.
You can customise shortcuts on an app-wide or a per-Persona basis. Shortcuts can be customised for tools, commands, panel visibility and blend modes, either being added as new shortcuts or replacing existing shortcuts.
Available settings are as follows:
Persona—The pop-up menu sets the Persona for shortcut customisation.
Apply to All Personas if Available—When selected, any shortcut you subsequently customise for a feature that is available in multiple Personas is applied in all those Personas. When unselected, you can uniquely assign a custom shortcut to work just within the Persona selected on the Persona pop-up menu.
Reset—The shortcut for the feature currently selected in the shortcuts list is reset back to default.
Clear—The shortcut for the feature currently selected in the shortcuts list is removed.
Reset All—Shortcuts for all entries in the shortcuts list are reset back to default.
Shortcuts list—Shows keyboard shortcuts for the Persona selected on the Persona pop-up menu.
To customise a keyboard shortcut:
On Affinity's Home screen, tap Settings.
Tap Shortcuts.
From the Persona pop-up menu, select the Persona whose shortcuts you wish to customise.
In the shortcuts list, tap the feature whose shortcut you wish to customise.
On your hardware keyboard, press the key(s) to assign. This adds the new shortcut or overwrites the existing shortcut.
To delete a keyboard shortcut:
In the shortcuts list, tap the entry whose shortcut you wish to delete.