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Mentioning this more as a discrepancy, not necessarily a bug. Backstory: I am looking to migrate from a combination of Freehand and Illustrator, where Freehand has been my main editing software and Illustrator a forced addition for opening current format documents (Freehand being essentially abandonware). I noticed that I cannot paste vectors copied in Affinity into Freehand, it always results in a bitmap (png by default, no non-bitmap choices under "paste special"). I can paste vectors into Illustrator fine, and copying on from there into Freehand works as well. I'm thinking it may be that the clipboard in Affinity needs a minor tweak for universally consistent behaviour.

Right clicking a swatch doesn't apply the swatch, so having the brushes act the same way makes sense to me.

Not a rep, visitor like you. I know exactly what you're referring to, and I tried it myself. Scaling doesn't work properly either, which is even worse. The simplest solution is probably to have some kind of checkbox to select whether your edits affect content of your selection or just the container. Another, more refined fix is to have the Node tool select the nodes of all objects that are inside a selection marquee, whether they are parents or children/content. Any edit you make should then affect all objects fully or partially selected. This would give granular control. I hope that made sense, it got a bit involved :) Edit: Shift-click lets you set properties of container + content, but not scale properly.

I think it would make sense to have it default to 'Combine' in that case, since this is probably what most people expect to happen. You are obviously free to decide your own terminology as long as it's internally consistent, but it would probably help "ex. Freehand/Illustrator" folks like me. On a side-note (which you probably already have in the works): The description of the selection needs refining. For example, a "compound curve" should probably be called such, rather than the more non-descript "curves".

A sister issue: "Create compound" does not create a compound, it performs the boolean "add" function, deleting any intersecting shapes (if objects are separate) and just keeping the outline.

Here are three; "cklogo" has a non-intersecting compound path (the main white text), "Solid.." has many intersecting ones in the text. The third ("logo_svart") I added since it seems to be autotraced on a linux or through a web interface (cairographics.org is mentioned in the raw file), but results in the same thing as well. cklogo_hori_cmyk_pos.eps Solid_Park_liggande_BW.eps logo_svart.eps

Opening an .eps results in a group or several groups of compound paths that cannot be released into their component parts with the expected menu item "release compound". Through a search on the forum I figured out that "divide" accomplishes the same thing in this case, but I feel this is completely unintuitive, "Divide" should perform the long established boolean function and nothing else.