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Patrick, thank you for all you've done for Affinity and this community. Wonderful to have folks like yourself to work with. God speed.

Curiously, with the Rounded Rectangle, it seems to expand correctly if the corner radius is 15% or more. I would assume this is already known, but assumptions are dangerous things. (And sorry, didn't search, tbh ... fatigue.)

In testing this, I can always undo and get back the original group of mixed objects, including a symbol and both types of text objects. When converting the group to curves, the text loses all fills and strokes. The symbol does actually get deleted, though its group remains. Obviously it would be very bad if you converted a group and didn't catch the deleted objects/symbols, especially if the work is going to be commercially printed. Flaws like this seem to reiterate and amplify a serious flaw in the vector/path engine. And as much as I truly love and genuinely appreciate the Affinity suite, fundamental flaws like this—especially those that have existed for a long time and been reported multiple times—are more than puzzling. As someone who works both in code and design, I'm intensely aware that bugs happen. No software is perfect, but the fundamentals really should be reliable outside of initial releases and betas. It's the wish of many, myself definitely included, that the Canva team would make fixing longstanding bugs a much higher priority. * Windows 11/64GB RAM/NVIDIA MX450/Core i7

Thanks, @NathanC. So this is a misunderstanding on my part of how Affinity handles leading. Muscle memory from decades of Adobe strikes again. Now if only there was a keyboard shortcut to access that particular field/value, or even the last accessed value in any panel.

Thanks @NathanC for your reply and the attempt to replicate this. Here's a screen recording showing the issue. As you can see, in both Artistic Text and Frame Text modes, the keyboard shortcuts, ALT + up/down, change the leading when it's in the default/auto state. After entering a leading value manually, the keyboard shortcuts no longer change the leading value even though the history panel records it being changed. The result is the same with filler text or manually-typed text, with hardware acceleration on or off. Windows 11 24H2, all updates including KB5054979 cannotSetLeadingByKeyboard.mp4

This is very disappointing, and it still exists in v2.6.2 After running "Expand Stroke" on any path/stroke, especially if the stroke has a pressure profile applied, the resulting shape is not faithful to the original path/stroke. What appears to be smooth curves can be sharp points, or worse—I was able to create small external loops in strokes after expanding. To see these, you might need to zoom in to 400% or higher. This may not seem to be that big of a deal if you're viewing on screen at 100% or less. But this is not how a designer's work is used. Frequently, our vector work is enlarged to enormous scale: 80' long banners in museums, billboard, bus wraps, etc. I have designed graphics that were a part of the Olympics; these were produced at more than 120' in length. At scale, these discrepancies and sharp points become huge problems. These issues can cause you to lose your client's trust, or their business altogether. Two of the primary reasons professionals work in vector are precision and scalability. Having worked with Adobe Illustrator since 88, I thought ... Did Adobe do this same thing, and I just never noticed it? Short answer: No. At least not in any versions that I still have access to, up to CS6. The precision of paths/curves and their "Outline Stroke" is 99%+ accurate compared to what's happening in Designer. Same with Figma; the Outline Stroke function there results in extremely faithful shapes. No, I'm not advocating that Designer copy Illustrator. There are many ways in which Designer is better. However... This is vector 101. This is the bread and butter. Everything else must be built on top of the fundamentals, not instead of them. IMHO, there appears to be a foundational flaw in how Affinity apps create, display and handle vector paths. It's almost as if the engine is set to use a 99% approximation of the original when converting. Whatever the cause, this really needs to be addressed and fixed.

Thanks, Mike. Sounds like it. I don't remember seeing it before, and it drove me crazy on recent project. Hope this one gets corrected quickly.

In Designer 2.6.2, text leading cannot be adjusted with the keyboard shortcuts (ALT up/down arrow) once a value has been set manually. In other words, if you replace the leading from whatever the default is, say "(12.4)" to "15", ALT up/down no longer changes the leading. Pressing ALT up/down, the History panel adds "Increase leading" or "Decrease leading" each time, though the value does not change. Applies to Frame Text as well as Artistic text. If the default Auto value has not been overridden, the keyboard shortcuts work as expected. The keyboard shortcuts work as expected in Photo and Publisher. Windows 11 24H2 / AD 2.6.2 and Beta 2.6.2.3228 (Searched but did not find this specific issue; hopefully this hasn't been reported before and I missed it...)

Very strange, but that does work.

A curious follow up on the missing/generic icons... Last night I left Photo open and told the computer to "sleep." (Windows 11, 24H2) Today, after "waking" the computer ("Oh, good morning, you're back so soon?") the missing Photo icon is no longer missing/generic.

Same issue here with the missing/generic icons. All three apps, Beta and Public. MSIX. Windows 11 24H2 (though this existed before 24H2) Curiously, the correct app icon shows while the loading/splash screen is visible. Then the generic icon appears to the right of the actual app icon. Finally, when the document opens, or the new document screen appears, the app icons drops down, leaving just the generic.

Lasso? It's there, but you have to use a modifier to get it: Node tool + ALT on Windows. Not sure about Mac, maybe control? iPad help says three-fingers and drag. (Seems like a dedicated tool/icon, and keyboard shortcut, for it would make sense, but that's even further off the original thread topic.)

Confirmed for me. Win 11 23H2/Firefox 131.0.3 Example image: https://images.pexels.com/photos/9672817/pexels-photo-9672817.jpeg Right click, copy Paste into a Photo 2.6 Beta document: pastes the URL Paste into a Photo 2.5.5 document: pastes the image as expected

Love this, and much prefer this over the old behavior. In my workflow and/or personal preference, the click to sample and click again to apply felt unnecessarily slow and clunky.

I believe @issicus is asking for the same functionality that's been requested above. If so, this really seems like a simple "fix" that would be especially welcomed by the many thousands who've just moved over from Adobe, whether having bought already or signed up for the six month trial to see if Affinity will work for them.