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That's what I do, so with it on top & its opacity set to 30-60% depending on what it contains, it makes it easy to use it as a guide for my vector additions. @Ros17: Note that each vector object will be created on its own layer, not all lumped into the same one. This will give you lots of flexibility in how the final design looks, so for instance you could vary how the layers are stacked to change which ones overlap others, hide some objects temporarily, & change that at any time.

I guess I was but sometimes no matter what I did I could not even select the entire paragraph -- it did not begin selecting the beginning characters of where I started dragging through the text, as if I had not started the drag until midway through the paragraph, nor would it even select all the way to the end of the paragraph, much less including the EOP symbol. I was mostly testing with art text, if that makes any difference. Oddly, where it did work reasonably consistently was if I just started the drag slightly above & to the left of the text & included just a small part of the first character & released the mouse, the entire paragraph inherited my named style.

I did but when I used a custom paragraph Text Style I created named "Weird Text Style" based on no other style & applied it to a block of text, all the attributes of that block changed to its attributes, but that block still showed "No Style" for its name in the Text Styles panel, not my "Weird Text Style." What am I doing wrong?

As I said, it doesn't always cause problems but it is a well-known problem that does affect some users from time to time.

But does it copy the name of a named text style defined in the Text Styles panel (Body, Heading 1, whatever) & apply it using this tool? That seems to be what the OP is asking for.

There are dozens of posts about this. Try searching the forum on "corrupted files" or the like for many in depth discussions about how Affinity's unique way of serializing & only loading parts of documents at once, its need to have continuous access to the document on the disk, & so on creates a potential risk ... & how often we have complained that they still have not found a way to reduce the risk to zero.

1. Visibility does not affect if a selected item's bounding box is visible or not. 2. In your screenshots, the status bar shows that 3 objects are selected, so one of them must be farther down in the Layers panel. If you mean that you scrolled the view then what went down was the document, not its contents. I do not know if this has anything to do with it but it might help if you could clarify what you meant by content & where the mouse pointer was when you used the wheel.

I assume you are aware of the potential issues Affinity apps have when actually working on files that are not stored on the startup drive. The recommendation is to copy the file to that drive, work on it there, & then move it back to the other dive for storage. Yes, this is certainly a PITA & some users never seem to have problems working directly on external ones, but there are many examples here in the forums of files that have become corrupted & unusable when working that way. Also, what interface do you use to connect the NVME drive to the Mac? Some can become temporarily overloaded if too many different devices are trying to access the same shared buss at the same time, & even if the drive itself is extremely fast, it can cause errors particularly in Affinity if the drive is not immediately & continuously available.

What has changed? Can you share a screenshot of the soft proof dialog showing this profile in its list of profiles?

AFAIK, this is how the Style Picker Tool is designed to work: it just copies whichever of the attributes that are enabled in that tool's context toolbar, which could be a subset of those used in a named style, or possibly a mix of ones that are & are not in any named text style. If you want to apply a particular named text style to selected text objects, I believe the intended way is via the Text Styles panel. Also maybe refer to the linked Using text styles help topic....

What tabs are you referring to? Do you have several documents open so you would normally see a tab for each of them or something else? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "menus" in this context. Do you possibly mean the Toolbar or Context Toolbar that normally appear across the top of the UI?

Could you explain more about how you scrolled all the content down in the app? Do you perhaps mean you dragged it down on the canvas using the Move tool, or dragged everything down in the Layer panel? BTW, it is better to provide screenshots of the entire app UI (or in this case at least the entire Layer panel) rather than just tiny segments. This is because something might be obvious from the full app UI that would help explain what is going on.

No, not unusual if you are saving to attached & mounted external volumes, but you would explicitly have to choose to do that & you might run into permissions & other issues if for instance the volume is used for Time Machine backups, isn't available for one reason or another, & so on. Thus my questions about that file path & if saving to the local startup drive user's home folder works.

@Skegnas, jusr curious but what is the name of the app you referred to as "the native iOS PDF viewer"?

It would help if you could post an example file, one with just the un-sculpted curve you are trying to sculpt in it. This might reveal something we can't tell from just the screenshot.