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The layers aren't locked no. I'm finding similar issues now with Designer - drag out a selection and it either selects nothing or misses some objects. Click on an object individually and then attempt to use the marquee tool again and it works fine! I'm not using an Ipad and don't have screen recording software that I'm aware of. I'm simply dragging out a marquee to (attempt) to select multiple items. Very often it doesn't work. If I click on the objects individually I can continue to select additional objects individually but for some reason the marquee tool just seems to be a lottery as to whether it wants to work or not.

I'm not sure if this just an issue with imported IDML files (and maybe PDFs) but attempting to use the marquee tool for selections is often a lottery. I drag out a selection for multiple items and very often it selects nothing at all. Sometimes if I've moved on a page the selection will actually highlight as though it's selected the objects on the previous page! If I then 'copy' it doesn't copy objects from either page though. Normally to fix this I click on an object on the current page and then try again and it works. Right now I'm attempting to select multiple items on a page but no matter how far I zoom out it refuses to elect any of the items. I can click on objects individually and that works but obviously a pain.

I found a post on this back in 2019 which claimed that a knife tool was on the roadmap... seems it never made it! None of the workarounds work very well without quite a lot of extra work. The 'break curve' command seems to only be available on an adhoc basis (I'm sure there some sort of logic to when it can work and when it can't but I haven't figured out what that is).

This is so frustrating. Seems to be a complete lottery as to whether expanding strokes and dividing paths will work as expected and then when it doesn't having to go back and do workarounds.

When using the 'add from file' option to add new pages it's nice to see the thumbnail of the chosen file.... but it would be even nicer if it showed a preview of the pages selected for import

I'm looking forward to getting to that place. In the meantime 95% of my work still involves converting IDML files and it'll be a good few months before I'm likely to properly switch to Affinity. In this particular case though I probably should start learning some new habits...

Thank you That makes things a little less frustrating.

Can't really see how I could have been any clearer as to what the steps are.

In files with lots of layers the scroll bar to scroll down through the layers partially covers the selection boxes for layer visibility which can makes using them a bit tricky (& quite frustrating). On a separate but related moan I'm finding that on more complex works when I select an object/curve, because the default behaviour is to open the relevant layer in the layers panel I'm having to constantly scroll up and down (very lengthy!) in order to then select/deselect other layers. Can there be an option to keep the layer closed instead of automatically opening it whenever anything is selected? I've looked through preferences but couldn't find anything.

I can't sorry, but as described when I attempt to place an Affinity Photo file into Publisher the colour is missing. The file I'm attempting to place is typically: - vector layer with curves created in Designer - that same layer duplicated and rasterised - then edited in Photo with colour layers in between the raster layer and the vector layer If I drag this file into Publisher I don't get any of the colour. If I merge all the layers then I do get the colour.

Thank you!! I just changed the shortcut to = (for zoom in) and now works perfectly as CMD +/= Although I did then also have to set the zoom out button option too (to -) but now working as expected. Thanks

Created image in Designer. Duplicated vector image to a raster layer. Opened image in Photo and added some colour. Saved image as Affinity Photo file. Now when I attempt to place the coloured Affinity Photo image into a Publisher doc it only shows the original (non coloured) outline image. I'm assuming something to do with the additional layers not being imported but so far as i can see there's no options for doing anything about this. I took a look at Resource Manager and nothing obvious. Have attempted via drag & drop to place the image and with the Place option from the menu - same result (no colour).

Tried that - didn't work either.

no worries - thanks

I don't know if this is a bug or just some kind of logic that I don't understand. I've drawn various paths, selected them and then expanded stroke. If I then select some curves and use the Divide tool they divide as expected and I can select the newly divided curves. However with other curves they don't divide they just disappear. I've selected the same curves and used xor/intersect/subtract/add and all of those work as expected but divide works inconsistently (or in this case not at all).