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Text>Find... and select another font in the format list. Find first which font has the best "1". Select match case; it may take a few tries to set the procedure right.

Thank you, I uploaded "DWG-export-kills.afdesign"

No crash report, I just select export > DWG and after a second AD just crashes quietly. (Seems that delay varies but end result is the same.) If Serif can supply secure upload address I can upload the problem file. I do not wish to share publicly customer content, signed NDAs and like.. BTW, I ended using https://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/ for DWG, I guess it was good enough.

As in title. Is there 2.6.0 still available anywhere? (I guess I can recover it from TM.. when I get to my another work site.) EDIT: Seems this one document is too complex for DWG export. Simpler ones do export. I guess I dig up old copy of Illustrator and export from there.

It would be good to have different kinds of content aware tools in Affinity. I would think they are so mainstream by now that they will come sooner or later.

Affinity can display font sets, based on FontBook groups, I assume.

While convert to outlines may be useful, placing a PDF displays it as passthrough, preserving the original look. Thus outlining is not needed in most jobs. Convert to outlines when you open a PDF as editable is useful when you want to edit small part of file and keep appearance original otherwise.

Please add an option for text content to stay in text form (editable) in DWG export dialog in Designer. Currently it automatically converts all text to paths.

I further tested and: text still is converted to paths on export to DWG (would be good to have option to keep it editable) scale goes from 1:500 to 1:400 on export to DWG. Setting it to back 1:500 after does not change elements, you have to transform them manually. It did happen also in earlier version (which caused some trouble as I prepared content to wrong scale :-D). This should be corrected. EDIT: I may be that the problem happens in IMPORT DWG as I remember I imported native DWG and got wrong scale (which I did not find out at the time). I tested exporting to DWG and importing that DWG back to AD so it is not necessarily export problem. I will check it later with Autodesk sw.

Allright, first impression is that it works for DWG i/o and is also much snappier. Thank you!

OK I uploaded some files. Most of the DWGs do not open in AD, one says unsupported entities, one displays weird scale/all objects are bundled together. The one Affinity file refuses to export to DWG, uses up all memory. The memory leak is the most severe problem. Problem is persistent and appears after file is large and complex enough -- these files are only a few of the problematic ones.

Opening and exporting big (3 MB and bigger) DWG drawings usually eats all memory and then some. System halts and I have to force quit Designer (version 2.5.7). Please correct this behaviour. Also, DWG export outlines/converts text to paths. This is unnecessary. Please retain editable text. System is Mac Mini M1, 16 GB, Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81).

^ There was a time when InDesign didn't have this feature either. It was all done manually. Now designers are used to having span columns feature available. If Affinity wishes to compete they should add it.

I also prefer to use Photoshop as workflow there is generally much simpler. I though like to do advanced compositing in Affinity Photo.

Designer just cannot handle large files. And especially DWG Export is problem. I think there is some combined effect as large file size + DWG export promptly makes Designer to run out of memory. I can edit and export large PDFs so and so (sometimes runs out of memory in PDF export) but exporting DWG format for the same files just does not work. File size is around 3,6 MB PDF and 12 MB Affinity format. Mac Mini M1 16 GB, 30 GB free disk space. Please optimize DWG Export.