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I’m not entirely sure of your requirements – there are missing details – but my attached video shows one quick way to do what I think you might want. If that doesn’t do what you want then we might need more details. 2024-03-28 12-41-30.mp4

I’ve never tried to do that, and didn’t know it was supposed to work, so that’s a new one on me, but doing so also crashes V2.4.1 on Windows 10. (Dragging to apply the colour as a non-gradient fill seems to work okay.) I would try it the way I did it if I were you and report this as a bug in the meantime.

Scroll to the post you want to change, press the ‘three dots’ button at the top-right of that post and choose “Edit” from the menu, then make your changes and then Save the changes.

I forgot about the Outline functionality which Alfred mentioned later.

I don’t think the Boolean operations are limited by the number of shapes. If nothing happens when you use them it’s normally because of a different issue, sometimes the Fill Mode is ‘wrong’ for some of the shapes, sometimes it’s because the shapes are not (all) closed curves, or various other things. If you can share the document we can experiment and see what’s happening.

Thanks for the reminder, that’s probably an easier method in most situations.

Without a screen recording, as requested by Callum above, it’s difficult for us to know what’s happening and, therefore, difficult for us to give further advice.

Welcome to the forums @MarioDM It seems to be working okay for me – see attached video. If you can give us more details of your set-up (OS+version, application+version, etc.), and tell us which tools you are using and how you are using them, then someone should be able to give better advice. 2024-03-28 08-48-46.mp4

Thanks for supplying extra information. For regular shapes (e.g. rectangle, ellipse, and such forth) I would probably just use a Quick Shape (e.g. Rectangle Tool) instead of messing around with selections. For irregular shapes I would probably use a variant of what I show in my attached video using a Spare Channel, which I suspect could be what David’s macro does. (Make sure that the first selection is smaller than the second selection so it can be subtracted.) 2024-03-28 08-36-24.mp4

I think I was able to reproduce this but not in a way I can give a repeatable workflow for. Attached is a video where I managed to reproduce it, or something like it, but I couldn’t say what I did before to make it happen. It seems to happen, but only sometimes, almost randomly, when I’ve been in Preview Mode and then do some other stuff and then try to drag a guide from either ruler, if that helps any. 2024-03-28 08-06-17.mp4

@maxen You have posted this in a section of the forums related to the beta software only. If you are still using the V2.4 beta software (there is no V2.4.2301 as that’s not a valid Affinity software version number) then you should look at upgrading the commercial software (already at V2.4.1) as the older beta software will expire soon. If you are not using the beta software then this should have been posted in the relevant non-beta section of the forums. A moderator can move this thread for you (if necessary) when you tell us which you are using.

I’m confused by your combination of the Marquee Tool (there are more than one), and shapes, and guides, and “stroke them” in the same sentence. Can you give us a more detailed example of what you are trying to do, preferably with a visual example and/or a document?

If the blueprints have been scanned with something like a flat-bed scanner, from flat drawings – i.e. the scans are ‘flat’ with no 'z-axis distortions' – then it’s possible that the only thing that is needed is to use the Straighten functionality of the Crop Tool .

As Walt said above, the file with the ‘~lock~’ at the end of it isn’t a real document, it’s used to lock the real document so it cannot be edited by more than one person at a time. If you can see that file and you are not editing the document then something has gone wrong somewhere. I managed to export the file okay, apart from some Pre-flight errors (potential spelling mistakes and overflowing frames), but I don’t know which export settings you were using. Pdf (containing errors) is attached. Funeral sheet recentred.pdf

Did you try selecting a layer and pressing the ENTER key? That functionality is documented in the Help as Move Data Entry. (Screenshot is from Designer but it works in Publisher too.)

Ah, that’s why I’m not seeing it in 1.10.6. At least it’s not my memory that’s at fault this time, apart from not remembering that the category was removed.

I can’t see the ‘Basic’ brush category in the Designer Persona of Designer in either V2 or V1. Did I imagine it? I think the only ‘truly-vector’ brushes in V2 are the two Solid Pen brushes in the Pens category – if you edit them there’s no bitmap shown at the bottom of the dialog.

I think it’s because they use rasters that are drawn along a vector, rather than being ‘hand-drawn’. In a similar way, the Vector Crop Tool in designer doesn’t just crop vectors. I think some of the Basic brushes are wholly-vector. Note: Use of Adjustments and/or Blend Modes may also cause a wholly-vector design to be rasterised.

You can change the Screen Tolerance (‘snapping distance’) via the Snapping drop-down – see attached image. If that’s not what you want then you might need to give us more details, preferably with a visual example.

You’re welcome. As for rearranging the categories manually, I don’t think you can do that as they are always listed in the order specified by the “Sort Categories By” option in the Brushes Panel ‘hamburger menu’.

The ones with the ‘shopping bag’ come from the Serif Store and the ones with the ‘linked chain’ are linked between the applications.

@pfi This section of the forums is for the beta software only. If you are still using the beta software then you should probably update the commercial release to 2.4.0 and use that instead as the beta will be ‘expiring’ soon. If you are using the 2.4.0 commercial release then you should be posting in a different bug section of the forums.

I can’t be sure but the problem looks like it’s because the QR Code (layer name “bit.ly_boar-barra”, in various places) isn’t pixel-aligned. Make sure that the X, Y, W and H in the Transform Panel are integer pixel values and it should work better.

I know, I tried it myself and got so mixed up in the various dash parameters that I gave up after a while. In case it’s any use to anyone, the Dash parameters I was using (also getting an SOSOSOSOS) were: 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 (Round cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -3 (Square Cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -7 (Square Cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -11 (Square Cap) Also, I had Balanced switched OFF for each Stroke.