Benwiggy2

Yes, I tried using the knife around the dots, but that didn't work. I know the basics about nodes -- I just didn't think node-work would be relevant for this.

Ah: of course -- the Divide Tool. "You're guaranteed to find the answer after posting on a forum...!"

So the only way to separate them is to make duplicates, and delete the bits I don't want...? I know about nodes, but I just didn't think that that would be how you'd do it. I was expecting something a bit simpler, like a command to make them separate objects.

I've converted this glyph from a font into curves. But I can't select the dots separately from the rest of it. It's all one object, seemingly. No Layers, no groups. Rubber-banding does nothing unless it covers all of it. I presume it's obvious. Be gentle.

Looks like I'll have to rent InDesign this month.

I have a PDF with vector data, which I have placed as a Passthrough PDF. But Publisher is rasterising the image. It's clearly bitmapped when I zoom in, in Publisher; and the Exported PDF is terrible, even with Rasterize Nothing set in the Export options. Is there anything that can be done?

Is there an easy way to tell whether lines are joining? I've nearly fixed all of them, but there's a couple that I just cannot find where it's bleeding through. Oh: think I've sorted it: I have to split straight lines if they intersect another.

Thanks for this. I'd drawn the lines on a square grid, with snapping on, so I thought everything was snapping into place. Not sure how the dupes occurred. I did snip some lines with the Knife, so maybe that's where the little bits came from. I'll go back to the drawing board on the original tile. I suppose I'd better look up the difference between a Layer and a Group. Many thanks for your explanation, though. I greatly appreciate it.

That seems to be a partial success, as some holes still don't fill, and also this: Apologies for size.

OK, here's the document. Islamic pattern.afdesign

I'm really enjoying using Affinity Designer to make repeating patterns, like this: Now I want to "colour them in". If I try to Close Curves, it adds extra lines all over the place. Join Curves does the same. The Vector Fill Bucket still won't fill in the holes. (These are single black lines.) Am I missing a trick? Thanks.

Well, yes: the StudioLink is a great idea. I just wouldn't have considered text flows to be outlandish in a vector drawing app. Thank you.

I'd hardly call having text flowing between frames and columns a "vast improvement" to Publisher: I'd call it fairly essential for a page layout app. Oh wait: is this an AI-generated response? That does seem contrary to the whole app-linking/persona thing, whose very nature is to provide everything in one app. Anyway, I doubt the designers will change their minds on my account, so at least I now know that I'm not missing anything; and I know how to get around the problem. Thanks.

Well, version 2 was released altogether, and all three apps parse the same document data in the same way. Designer copes with text frames brought in from Publisher perfectly: the 'design choice' was just to exclude the UI controls. I thought the whole idea of the App Sync™ thing was the ability to do anything in any of the apps. But I guess the lesson is: "Do it all in Publisher". I'd be interested to know what the benefit to the user is of this limitation. Thanks, all.

I see in the pre-V2 Archive that Designer deliberately restricted the ability to flow text across frames. The same seems to be the case for creating text columns, too. I can just copy frames over from Publisher; but is this limit still in place? There doesn't seem to be a Publisher 'persona' that I can switch to, either.