RussPitcher

It's now mid 2022 and I'm on version 1.10.5.1342 and this is STILL NOT WORKING!!!! It's utterly maddening as this is a fundamental function of a drawing program and it's been broken for years. I can sort of get it to work using the workarounds above by experimenting with the orders of the objects to be merged, the document dpi, breaking apart objects with holes (e.g. curves in the shapes of letters like d,o,r,q etc), but it ends up with my blood boiling because it takes me an hour for an operation that should take seconds, and sometimes it's simply impossible. To be honest, I'm questioning the sense of sticking with this program. I've used it since the start and loved it, and in general I still do, but this sort of fundamental bug going on for YEARS makes it impossible to recommend or rely on I enclose another example of the issue. Just try to merge the black objects - The bird shape and the M, and the rest of the lettering so that you have two discrete objects with no overlapping lines so that the file can be used for vinyl cutting. Please, please let us know when this will finally be fixed and why it's such a problem in newer releases. I never saw this at all in earlier versions - if I recall correctly the last working version was 1.7.x. The Midnight Songbirds BlackBlue.afdesign

I am still having regular issues with boolean operations.I know this has been reported before but it's driving me insane, especially as it's a fundamental issue that's been happening for months. This is just one example of many similar issues I've had with boolean adds/subtracts/intersections. In this file I'm trying to perform a boolean add on two curves. No matter the position in the layer tree or the order I select the two curves I get strange issues and, as far as I can tell, the only workaround is to delete nodes until there is no longer a failure and then manually recreate the missing profiles. I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 (20H2) and Designer (1.8.5.703) but this has been a problem for some time and a full PC format and OS install hasn't made any noticable difference. This sort of problem happens with new files. I'm not sure I've seen it with existing files but I haven't made any particular effort to recreate the issues with older files. Given that I've seen problems and bug reports for boolean issues for many months I've stopped recommending Designer over other products and I'm getting to the point where I'm going to end up ditching the product, which is great shame because, in general, it is a program I love and have been delighted with. Unfortunately since v1.7 I just keep seeing major bugs with basic functionality and they don't seem to have been addressed with any success. Can you give me any hope that these sort of critical bugs will be fixed soon? Boolean_Add_Issues.mp4 Justice Hammer - PROBLEM.afdesign

I'm seeing the same issue a lot. Subtracting or merging shapes causes all sorts of issues.

Do you have any idea when the importing issue might be complete? It's now been around six months with important functionality broken. I've been a big advocate for Affinity products, and I still am, but the lenght of time that it is taking to fix this is quite ridiculous.

I'd definitely love to see a Lightroom alternative in the Affinity Suite. I can pretty much guarantee I'll buy it the instant it's available.

There are definitely general DPI issues too. When I take a file with an A4 template at 72 DPI and change the DPI to 300 with [Anchor to Page] selected I expect to see the items on the page change size relative to the page. Instead I see no visible changes. Then if I open Document Setup again I see that the page size has changed from 210mm x 297mm @72DPI to 50.4mm x 71.3mm @ 300 DPI, so rather than changing the DPI, the page size has been changed. I can then leave the DPI at 300 and change the page dimensions back to 210mm x 291mm and select [Rescale]. As expected there is no visible change but now I've managed to arrive at 210x297@300dpi, which is what I wanted in the first place. If I then change the DPI from 300 to 72 and select [Anchor to page], the page dimensions change to 875mm x 1237.5mm and the DPI appears to change to 72DPI, again there is no visible change but the page size has changed. It seems that rather than rescaling resolution and keeping the page size as specified, it's rescaling the resolution and leaving the page size to jump around.

Is there any way to download the latest 1.6.x version of Designer? I need to get some work done and the dimensions are critical as they need to align with previously made physical items and some of the assets are used as templates for a cutter.

Here's the file I used. Thanks for the quick response. Engraving - 2019-01-27.afassets

I have just installed Designer 1.7.1.404 after rebuilding my PC this week, previously I was running on an earlier edition - I forget which version exactly. I have a number of assets that I imported from a backup .afassets file and these seem to be misbehaving after the upgrade. The assets appear to be 50% size when I drag them on to the page. At first I assumed I had the document DPI incorrect - I do some work in 72dpi and some in 300dpi - so I created two clean A4 documents, one with 72dpi and one with 300dpi and dragged the assets once onto each page. Despite the different dpi settings the assets were the same size on page and both were 50% smaller than they should be. I also tried changed the DPI using the document setup, but there was no change to the items created from the assets. The page dimensions would change if I selected rescale, but the items on the page would never change apparent size no matter what I did. Has asset/dpi management changed intentionally in this version and, if so, how can I fix my assets so they behave correctly? Thanks.