katrinaDTL

@LibreTraining THANK YOU! It worked like a charm.😁

The garbled text which looks like that is often the result of having multiple copies of a font installed.
Check the windows fonts folder and directly view the actual files (not Font Manager).
C:\Windows\Fonts
Look for duplicates like:
Montserrat-Regular.ttf
Montserrat-Regular_0.ttf
Montserrat-Regular_1.ttf
etc.
Make sure you only have one version installed.
Un-install the fonts, and then go look to see if anything is still there.
There should be nothing (for those fonts, obviously your other fonts will still be there).
If there are still any versions of those fonts there, you need to delete them as they are duplicates.
Also make sure you have no fonts installed in your user font folder.
C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts
USER_NAME should be your user name.
The reason to un-install it all, and then clean it all out, is to start clean.
The various font caches need to rebuild properly with only one version of the fonts installed.
Do this with the apps closed so they will re-initialize the app font cache when they re-start.
 
If this does not work for you, please attach your document so we can test it directly.
 

Thanks @LibreTraining. I'll definitely give this a try and report my results.

Hi JokeRat,
 
If you go to Affinity Designer > Preferences > User Interface you will find a tick box for Show lines in points. Unticking this will allow you to view the stroke in the units you have chosen for your document. 
 
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Distribute Vector objects along path. With interactive preview. 


 

Let's hope the pattern making capabilities are at the forefront for the devs this coming year. I hate to admit that the AI for iPad has some nifty ways of making them and also a very intuitive radial repeat function.

@katrinaDLT
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  
This is the legacy Symbols tutorial (1.5) previously linked to and this is the current symbols tutorial which should be used in preference as found in this official list
 

Hi,
You can create repeating patterns with the Art boards and symbols, this account: East Coast Charm on YouTube has lots of tutorials for Affinity Designer, on the Desktop and ipad doing repeat and drop repeat patterns, this is a useful one for the desktop: Create A Pattern Template In Affinity Designer

Hi all,
I'm considering buying Designer but one thing that I can't find is if there is a way to fill an object using vector or patterns. I only find gradients and bitmap.
I know we can duplicate an object to create hand made pattern but I can't then edit the repetitions like if is a bitmap fill.
Cheers,
Juan