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Me too. I know dark mode is all the rage for younger people, but for those of us with non-adolescent eyes, tiny grey text and icons on a black background they may as well be invisible. I've tried using Designer v2 on my iPad, but the dark UI was too difficult and slow for me to work with so I'm staying with the lighter UI on my laptop. No criticism of the App functionality though, V2 is great and remains my go to for illustrations and graphics.

Perfect. Thanks so much

I have been struggling with this for hours. I want to crop a figure in Affinity Photo to remove all of the excess (i.e. I only want the area inside the crop margins to remain and nothing outside). When I crop the figure and then paste into another composite figure I am putting together in Affinity Designer it brings all of the excess that I don't want. It seems to be simply restricting the area that is visible, but not removing anything. Any advice on what I am doing wrong or alternatives ways of destructive cropping of a figure? Thanks

That's a workable solution Copy/Paste --> PowerPoint --> Save as SVG is a great solution. I had no trouble opening in AD and after remembering to "ungroup" was able to edit all the bars etc. Smiley face, problem solved. Thanks for taking the time to figure it out, much appreciated.

It looks like my problem is to do with the fact it is a Histogram I am trying to copy (doesn't work in Windows, but does in OS X). If I make a simple bar graph, like Lagarto's, it will indeed copy and paste as a vector into AD in Windows without any problems, but the Histogram style of chart always converts to an image. I will figure out a way to get the histogram converted to a column chart and problem solved. Thanks much for all your help.

Unfortunately I get the same image pasted format regardless of whether in Designer, Pixel or Export personas (oddly in export mode it draws a rectangle with a heading PNG in RGB). The PC is running Windows 10 and Office 2016 and I have the latest Affinity Designer This is an example of the Histogram I'm trying to copy from Excel Gene changes histogram.xlsx and this is one of the styles I'm wanting to end up with in AD

Thanks for your help. When I run the VBA macro in Excel it identifies the copied graph (a histogram) on the clipboard as a picture (i.e it only executes the If fmt = xlClipboardFormatPICT line) On the Mac version it will Paste into Designer as a fully editable vector drawing, each bar can be resized, moved, change pattern etc. In contrast, doing exactly the same process on the PC version it always ends up as an image. All of the Paste Special options also end up as an image. However, if I then paste into PowerPoint without clearing the clipboard it pastes as an editable Microsoft Excel Graph Object, not as an image so the vector information I am assuming is still there. It appears like Designer running in the Windows environment ignores the format of the object on the clipboard and if it is not text then assumes it is a bitmap. I think I will have to get my students to email me their spreadsheets (usually very large) so I can copy and paste the histograms into AD files on my Mac and then email the files back to them. They are able to open the Mac generated AD files on their PC version and edit them as normal.

Any advice on how to copy and paste a vector graph (created in Excel) into Designer? I can do this in the Mac version without any problem using copy and paste, but the PC version always pastes as an image irrespective of whether I select Metafile, Enhanced metafile or save it as a PDF and try to open the PDF in Designer. The clipboard will copy and paste the graph between Office Apps retaining it as a vector. Are there some settings I can change to prevent graphs being converted to bitmap images?