[Moving a flood filled "region" to a new layer]

@Lee D the most on point answer ever. Thanks!

[Moving a flood filled "region" to a new layer]

Hello all,

I'm new to Affinity (and graphics software in general).

Here's what I'm doing:

• I import an SVG
• I rasterise all the layers in the SVG
• I use the flood fill tool to fill "regions" in the image (see the attachment).

What I'd like to do is move the flood filled region (the red bit) to a new layer.

Any ideas how I can do this?

[Failed to open file...This file type is not supported.]

Hi @MEB, thank you! I've done some investigation, and I saw that there was an error in the SVG itself. I regenerated it, and it successfully imported into Designer. False alarm!

[Failed to open file...This file type is not supported.]

I have an SVG file generated with Processing. It's 117.5 MB.

When I try to open this in Affinity Designer, I get the error message in the attachment.

Is this expected (due to some size limit in Designer) or is it a potential bug?

[Millimetres to pixels]

Hi John. Thank you for the explanation! I learned something new today.

I looks like both Inkscape and https://www.unitconverters.net/typography/millimeter-to-pixel-x.htm assumes 96 DPI. 

[Millimetres to pixels]

Hello everyone.

In Affinity Designer, when I select the A3 preset in Document Setup, I see the dimensions in millimetres as 297mm x 420mm.

When I then change the Document Units to pixels, I see the dimensions in pixels as 3507.9px x 4960.6px.

When I do the same thing in Inkscape, I see the dimensions in millimetres are the same, but the dimensions in pixels are 1122px x 1587px. When I put the same millimetres numbers into https://www.unitconverters.net/typography/millimeter-to-pixel-x.htm, I also get 1122px x 1587px.

Is this expected behaviour?

Thanks.