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You guys are amazing. Thanks a lot. I love this software and that there is always a workaround.

got it! this is super useful, thanks a lot.

Tahnks this looks really ineresting! Unfoirtunately I am not quite sure how to add the mask.

A good question. Has a line even left/right/top/bottom? I mean the line only has a certain width and I want to snap an other line to its contour edges.

I am diggin out this thread because I am recently looking for a way to snap linesto other lines just like @thomaso wonderfully explained in the quoted post. Is it possible to snap the lines not directly on the other lines but next to it so they are not eoverlapping?

Any updates on this topic?

I installed the most recent driver (26.06.2023) and disabled OpenCL allready whit no success.

So I found a "solution". When I switch to WARP in the performance settings it runs much smoother! I have a NVIDIA Quadro P2200 in my setup and the only way to get a decent workflow is to bypass it with the WARP setting. Is there any known problems with the Nvidia Quadros graphics adapters? I tries different drivers, rn I rund the latest one.

Hey you all, I am working on a project right now and the performance of Affinity Designer breaks my neck. I have to edit lines in detail, but everytime I zoom in the performance get's really bad. As soon as I zoom out it runs fine though. Would expect the opposite to be honest. What could I do to fix this? I've allready tried the newest beta and stable. This problem occurs on all projects where I try to edit these kind of lines. The max. undos are set to 100 and I have tried to an/disable Hardware Acc. with no success. I run the latest version of WIndows 11 but the problem existed way before the last windows update. affinitylag.wmv

Good idea. That's the result of the new document: It looks like it should. Thecolor progfile is exactly the same and the export settings, too. Strange.. I will consider deleting the white line and making the dashpatter out of the black line. Thanks again Gary.

Yeah, these are different curves. I imported them from a GIS Software where I have rendered them. There are two seperate lines because of the different colors I need for representing the railroad track style. It's not the first time I have done it this way, but the first time that this problem occured. "Does one (or more) of them have an Adjustment, Effect or Blend Mode that is not on the other(s) or is different to the other(s)?" No, there is no further styling. Only a color is set and the settings you see in the screenies below. II moved them a bit for a better distinction.

I am working on a map right now and have a strange problem while exporting my layout: I have a bunch of rail tracks painted in a white and black deshaed line on my map. When I export the map to PDF the white lines (except from one! little section) are not exported. In Affinity the white dashed lines are shown properly. This is pre export in Affinity: And this is after export in any PDF Reader(on top you can se the section where the export works): When I export it as PNG, the white liens are exported just fine. Any ideas?

Wow, didn't know this feature existed. This will really come in handy. Thanks a lot This worked! You are fantastic, thank you :)

Thanks for all the input Garry. In the meantime i figured out how to make multi color lines. It's really easy and can be done with the appearance panel. This is the outcome: I think I can work with that! I just have to manually cut the lines at the points where they begin to overlap. Any suggestions on how to cut the lines? I'm pretty new to deisgner and I just can not figure it out.

Thanks for your patience and excuse the confusion. With "unsteady background" I meant that the map shows nature feaures in the background and there are a lot of changes in contrast and color. I made a simplified example. The "affected segements" are only the line segements, which overlap at least one other line. Would it be possible to cut the lines manually at the points specified in the example below and style the remaining line with for example two colors? Or can a line by default only have one color?