Mr. Sam

@Old Bruce Good point; sure wish we could fill with vector shapes... anywho, the image had some vector layers I wanted to keep; but since this had to go to print yesterday, I had to export as "flattened" PDF and remove the vector layers. I hope Affinity can get this bug fixed. I do a lot of pattern prints.

I have posted this on the forum here, but thought I should report this issue. I just downloaded the most recent version 2.3.1 and I can't get around this. Designer is only exporting the .png, not the tiled fill when a fill is set to bitmap. I have included 2 bitmap fill images; and you can see that they are both exporting to pdf with only the center, original .png, not the tiled fill. The other picture is exporting artboard 2 after rasterizing the rectangle on artboard 2, but I don't wanna export a rastered image, I wanna export to PDF as a vector. Help!🙏

Was this bug not fixed??? As you can see in the attached images, the export is only exporting the original .png and not the bitmap fill. Any suggestions? @stokerg you mention to rotate the fill... in this case, I can't rotate the fill and get the desired result; but in any case, how do you rotate the fill "after" you have set the fill. In Inkscape (I use both), I can easily click on the fill, and the "fill" adjustment nodes are there; in Affinity Designer, the adjustment nodes seem to be gone forever once I have clicked off of the bitmap fill. If I want to adjust the fill, I have to re-fill the area with the bitmap image. Is there a way to adjust the fill after?

I am still having this issue. Does anyone know if it was resolved, I am on the latest version and it is doing this exact same thing.

@firstdefence, thank you for your reply. I am aware of the ctrl left click to select an object, but that wasn't working. Strangest thing... This was taking so much time trying to find the correct ellipse to fill, that I ended up shutting down my PC for a day and taking a brake. Now, I'm back at it, and for some reason the standard double click on the ellipse/object works. There must have been some sort of bug in the program; but now we're back in business! Thanks again.

Update to the issue. I can select the parent object, but can not multi click objects nested under any parent object to select them. This is becoming SO time consuming. Fish 3.mp4

See posted video. All of the sudden, Designer won't let me double click to select any object, it will ONLY select the background. This is getting SO tedious when working with multiple objects. I have always been able double click (maybe more clicks) to select any object, even if it is grouped inside other objects... Click enough times, and the software will select it. About an hour ago; this stopped happening and I have no idea why. I click 1000 times and it will never select the object, only the background. I can click on the layer to adjust, but if I accidently click off, I'm back to the background and have to scroll to find the object I was on... This is maddening! Can anyone help me understand why Designer isn't allowing me to click to select an object. Test 1.mp4

Thank you to all who posted here. I lost mine as well until I found this post. Ugh! this was berried way too deep!

Super helpful @Aammppaa. I'm going to look into this. Thank you. I do a lot of drawing and am now in the process of learning to put them into vector. Sure wish there were equal capabilities like this with the pencil tool as with the pen tool.

@firstdefence, I am literally drawing a Japanese carp at this time, and you are correct, it is very tedious having to select each node to snap it to the nearest curve. It gets very frustrating. Each scale has it's own gradient, so I have to use the fill tool for each scale. This is getting time consuming, so I'm wondering if there is a way to have it auto snap (turn the neighboring curve yellow) to the nearest curve. I wish there was a feature like: -Auto Snap Curve: End of curve snaps to nearest curve (with custom tolerances). -Auto Snap Curve: Snap curve to any other curve intersection along it's path.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to AUTO "Snap to Curve"? I tried to illustrate what I am asking in the video. I know that one can use the "Sculpt" feature to make a continuous path, but I want separate curves/paths that auto snap together when they are close to each other. If I am working on a large project and I want to draw a bunch of lines with the pencil tool and fill the enclosed areas with the flood tool, is there a way to auto snap and close the curves of the pencil tool, or do I HAVE to join the curves manually (aka. drag selected nodes to nearest curve until the other curve turns yellow, which attaches them)? I find that it is taking forever to have to manually join each ending node nearby curves. It would be so nice to have it "Snap" to another curve.

NotMyFault... You ARE at fault for hitting the nail on the head with this. Thank you, I figured out how to have a shape using the pencil tool and then filling it with the fill tool through the link you gave. Thank you!

This might help some people [Click Here] https://affinityspotlight.com/article/understanding-groups-and-layers-in-affinity/

Hmmmm... Great find. This will probably work. You are a huge help, thank you so much!

I will try both of your suggestions tonight when I get home from work. Thank you for the input, and I will take your advice on future posts. I get how this can get confusing about who is answering which question. Thanks again.