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Another option is to 'break in' the binding. [Old enough to have received good books for Christmas or birthdays -- and being taught how to treat them!] cpc

Silvery100, Two suggestions for your 6x6 pattern: Un-group the rows -- then individual square can be selected by clickiing on them. Name the squares so you can easily find one in the layers panel if needed eg A1, A2, A3... B2, B2 B3 etc. Regards, Carl

Might fill mode 'Contrast Negate' be an option?

Alfred & G13RL, Thanks for your contributions -- will make my future work easier than 'playing' till it works! 🙂

lascivious1, Two things to play with... The little triangular arrows slide around to set text start and end limits -- I regularly go back to the Help file to remember all the options for text direction and positioning inside or outside the curve! At the top , use the Baseline adjustment to position the text higher (inside) or lower (outside). Regards, Carl

I had a quick try... Added some text, which appeared with the unwanted background. Chose the text layer and added a style. Didn't matter which -- the text's background disappeared! Went to the effects tab and un-ticked everything which left only a fill color which could be changed to whatever I wanted. No doubt there is a more direct way?

Callum Happy to oblige, though sending a simplified design. As I've been testing (and testing and testing!) the issue seems to be the extent of the end stops used to adjust the scale of the bitmap fill. If they (or sometimes only one) go beyond the edge of the object being filled the result in the print to PDF file is a square or rectangle rather than the filled shape. Note: the problem has nothing to do with the 4UP format I was using -- single sheet A4 PDF print has the same issue. The odd partial rectangles visible in the top right two images (nativity & annunciation) of my original poster design are due to partial covering by the 'Tidings of..." text group which is PDF printed as a single image rather than an individual curve per letter for the 'plain' text. When it is moved to the bottom layer then PDF print gives the four square / two round stained glass images like the lower picture in my original post. And yes, the two circles (shepherds and kings) have end stops within their perimeters. The 'forum.jpg' image included here was prepared for a possible bug report. How to see the end stops on two images simultaneously is an exercise left for the viewer! : -) Regards, Carl forum_test_design.afdesign

I've designed an A4 poster which needs to be also printed 4UP to give four smaller handbills. I've had no problems in the past but am getting peculiar results now using Affinity Design 1.8.5.703. The left section of the print error screenshot included shows a portion of my design and the print dialog which look fine as does an export as a jpg. On the right side is a screen shot from a preview of the pdf file in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Here the circular images, ellipses with a narrow stroke and bitmap fills, are peculiarly wrong with different parts of the bitmap fills showing outside of the clipping ellipses. As an additional test I deleted everything from my design except the six bitmap filled ellipses. Two printed to PDF correctly (shepherds and wise men) but the others again show bitmap beyond the ellipse -- but curiously not all exactly as they were in the original poster design. A simple 4UP workaround is to place four A4 jpg exports on a new A2 design, but I'd like to know if there is something I should have done to avoid the problem in the first place. Thanks, Carl

Big thanks to carl123 & h_d for some new tips... Typing in alternate units and change of decimal places for display.

Imzan, Google says 1.0 mm = 2.83465 points, so your 0.072 mm = 0.20409 points. Might not 0.2 points (0.0705556 mm) be close enough? I don't think you can get closer than that as AF Designer seems limited to entering tenths of units. Regards, Carl

You can crop in Affinity Designer as well.

Maybe I'm missing something about the problem, but I seem to get the desired effect in two steps... [1] Select all the component shapes and [2] click on 'Add'! No need to select the parts one at a time. Added: How is a 'shape builder' tool different? You still have to select all the parts.

Related: I'm beginning to use the colour wheel most of the time and wonder if there is a way to have it the default. I realise I only have to choose it once for a particular editing session but whenever I open a design to resume work I have to choose it again.

Well, learn something every day! Thanks for that; and for alerting me to 'Symbols'. I suppose much more is made clear if one carefully watches all the tutorial videos but my mind best absorbs what fits with current projects.

I checked on https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ and found vaguely similar but nothing exact. Another option might be to stack copies of your text. Choose font and write, convert to curves and make the fill white and the outline black. Attached is a quick Publisher project including the (sorry so sloppy!) history. CIRCULAR FONT.afpub