Potatobug

I'll check all this out tomorrow. I need sleep. Thanx a bunch for all your help. It was much appreciated.

Here's the file. I'm curious to know if you have the same issues. Thanx in advance. FantaSeaRvsd.ai

I haven't had Illustrator for several years and since installing the Affinity apps all my AI files have converted to AD. The best I can do now is email the AD file that used to be the AI file. If you get what I mean.

UGH! Then I may be hosed. Have others had this much trouble opening AI files in AD?

I can't identify any cause of the rectangular shape in the layers panel and I;m not using mesh fills on any part of the image or any image. I have one question with regard to the screenshot below. This is the dialogue that appears when I open any of these files. It shows the image will be cliupped in the thumbnail but I see no way to tell Designer to increase the artboard before opening. It says these are the PDF options at the top of the box. Why is it opening the files in PDF rather than the native AD file format or something more suitable like EPS or TIFF? Could the PDF format be part of the problem? - Bug

Below is the image as it looks when scaled to fit the artboard and also if I copy/paste the layers into a larger artboard. Either way,, a lot of information is lost and I'm left with just the outline artwork beyond the cropped areas. It's really looking like my work is destroyed in Designer.

While the Affinity apps are great, I'm having a serious problem opening my Illustrator files in Designer -- the layers are all there but the image is being cropped and the information on the cropped areas is lost. Here's an example. Above is the original image as created in Illustrator. This is the image as it opens in Designer. All image info beyond the cropped area is lost. This is happening with many of my images. Is there any way to get Designer to open these images in their entirety? Otherwise many hours of meticulously crafter artwork is lost. Any help would be appreciated. - Bug

That appears to have fixed it. Thanks a bunch, MEB!

Everything is set correctly, I've watched two tutorials just to make sure I was doing everything right, I've followed all directions but when I left click to make my selection, it selects the entire image JPG -- the whole square rather than any part of the image. I kinda need the select tool to be more, well, selective. Either this or it makes no selection at all -- no tool response whatsoever. Any ideas what the issue might be or how to resolve it? I really need to get this resolved. Thanks in advance for any help. - Bug