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    kris_ got a reaction from thomaso in Text as Curves doesn't work when exporting to PDF   
    Thank you both for your replies! thomaso was right - it was about transparency beacause Adjustment Layer/Layer Effect was considered as something transparent and that's why the text was rasterized. I managed to overcome this by:
    1) selecting both Background image and Adjustment Layer
    2) creating a group of the two
    3) merging the group

    Ps: as Fixx said, vector masks need to be applied to text layers if you don't want them to become rasterized.
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    kris_ reacted to Fixx in Text as Curves doesn't work when exporting to PDF   
    Keep text topmost. If you need to mask text use vector masks.
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    kris_ reacted to thomaso in Text as Curves doesn't work when exporting to PDF   
    Not knowing yet what pixel mask in detail you applied to your text - just some thoughts:
    – The Pixel and the Designer Persona differ by pixel (as a "stony/grainy" raster element) and vector (as kind of "elastic/liquid" element without resolution).
    – "Text as Curves" is meant as an opposite to "Text as editable characters", not to "Pixel". A curved text combines just shapes which have the form of letters, like a rectangle looks like the letter 'l', an 'i' is a rectangle + circle or a torus appears as an 'o'. So "Text as Curves" is no warranty against pixel but rather against text content manipulation. (Wheras curved text mainly is used for specific design- or production processes.)
    – Different PDF versions treat transparency differently. Transparency here means every kind of design which visually merges the appearance of objects (layers). The PDF version determines whether the transparency will persist as layers + setting information (and remain editable) or whether the elements involved will be calculated to a result image (which will be rasterized). The higher the PDF version number, the greater the ability of these PDFs to maintain transparency as non-rasterized. So, on PDF export you can influence the grade of rasterizing ("flattening") with according settings, for some you can not prevent.
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    kris_ reacted to Gear maker in How to join curves in a shape - AD   
    When a Join Curves is done it tries to tie the start of one curve with the end of another curve to make one curve.  On the two branches that don't look to be joined you probably have a red node signifying it's the last node in the curve and the other end is the start.  All other pieces have been connected end to end to make one curve.
    The geometry icons want closed paths.
    If you are using the beta version 1.7.0.6 there is now a menu selection Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves that might do what you want.
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    kris_ reacted to MEB in How to join curves in a shape - AD   
    Hi kris_,
    Welcome to Affinity Forums
    Affinity Designer doesn't support booleans operations with lines (only with/between shapes). So select all the line objects, go to menu Layer ▸ Expand Stroke to convert the lines (strokes) to shapes then perform the add boolean operation as usual.
    The Join Curves command is intended to be used with nodes (not curves). So for example, to join one line with another, drag one of the end nodes of the first curve over the end node of the second with the Node Tool (both curves must be previously selected), then with the Node Tool still selected drag a marquee around both nodes and press the Join Curves button in the context toolbar. The lines are now joined into a single entity.
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