Paulie68000

Apologies, you are quite correct; whilst it does seem to work for the boolean ops I've been using on converted text; using the same font as you I attempted to reproduce it and whilst it merged the H to the a and the p to the y the others didn't boolean add at all. I concur, it's as frustrating as heck. Sorry it didn't work for your use case

As another workaround, I found that if you have Affinity Photo/Designer 1.x still installed - if you convert your font to curves in 1.x you can then copy and paste those curves into Photo/Designer 2.x and the boolean operations will work on them (including knife and shape builder).

This sounds similar to another problem that a few have posted about elsewhere, to do with boolean operations (including knife and shape builder) upon curves that were converted from TT/OTF glyphs. As a matter of interest, if you take your text in Affinity Photo/Designer 1.x, convert to curves in there and copy and paste those curves into Designer 2.x all the boolean functions work correctly.

Hi, just adding my observations to this issue - I have experienced similar boolean problems (in all Affinity v2 products [on windows for me]) - it does seem to boil down to one object being subtracted from text that was converted to curves. (Even text that was converted to curves via Designer/Photo v1). An easy repro is to take, say, a big letter P, convert to curves and then create a square, angled at 45 degrees counter clockwise and overlay the top right of the P ; subtract the square from the character and the whole thing vanishes. I can also confirm using the exact same steps in Designer/Photo v1 work like a charm. I also noted that the new Shape Builder also has similar issues identifying the overlapping regions to boolean when one of the shapes came from a converted True Type glyph. Hope it helps track things down...