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It looks like its rasterising the text on the fly, I've just tried the same thing in Designer and the text is very crisp. You may have to type the text at say 100pt, convert to curves and scale it down to get what you want in Affinity Photo. I'll see if that works... Nope thats awful too.

All you need to do is select Artistic Text and type your text.

Designer or Photo? You can have font text with a transparent background, it doesn't need to be rasterised first In Affinity Photo In Affinity Designer: File > Document Setup: Colour Tab

Which Affinity app are you using and which Operating System are you on? By the look of the image, you are zooming in on a rasterised version of the font - Rasterised basically means converted to pixels.

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Your brain is in SBP mode and that appears to suit your work process, I was surprised when you said SBP didn't have a mirror feature when it actually does. Choose 'Mirror Layer' or 'Flip Layer Vertically' from the 'Image' menu. Tip: If on the Mac, the 'Help' menu has a search function — type 'flip' or 'mirror' and it will show you the menu where these commands are located, If on iPad: tap the Transform button, then the third and fourth buttons will flip the layer:

They look like Boxes imported as curves because there are 10 curve layers and 10 boxes displayed. You could probably convert each box to a Text Frame: Layer > Convert to Text Frame a text frame has no visible boundary unless you select it, then you get the bounding box. I don't have auto rotate in my Print options But I'm on Mac.

I use the XP-Pen Deco 03 on Mac and its very easy to use and set up, I would definitely recommend it.

This is one of the things that I don't get and annoys me no end. My logic is, when you add another sheet of paper to a pile of paper you place it on top of the last one, you don't place it underneath the last one - its not real world behaviour, this shows up even more when you convert text to curves and then open the Text Curves Group, lets say you convert the word "Orange" to curves... That arrangement of the layers just isn't logical, you would never arrange a set of letters like this. Personally I think they have this wrong but I doubt they'll change it. This is how it should be. If you are talking about Guides, they are non printable anyway so they can be left visible, maybe show us with a screenshot? Are you sure that isn't a feature of your printer software not Affinity? You'll be looking for a while as there isn't currently a find and replace feature in Affinity Designer

Yes you can select everything within the group and then the target shape and subtract.

Was rewriting my post when I got called away, what Philip is trying to do is subtract a "group of shapes from an individual shape, which makes the process different. The simplest method is to ungroup the group of shapes and Layer > Geometry > Add them to make a single irregular shape, that can then be subtracted from the Individual Shape.

To cut out a shape from a shape use Layer > Geometry > Subtract or from the Menu Bar: Add you should end up with this

There is no way to "Lock" the Canvas, You could try adjusting the settings in OS X System preferences > Mouse Maybe adjust the tracking speed down a notch or two and see how you go. There are third-party mouse controller app's for Mac, Steer Mouse comes to mind. You could try this to get a bit more control. Ps. png files and jpeg's show as screen grabs without having links to the image like this. I don't know whether you like the separated look but you can also have a more completed interface by going to Window > Separated Mode and clicking on it to turn off Separated Mode.

Erase White Paper is fine as long as nothing "within" the image you want to keep is also light in colour i.e. portrait on a white background and the person has white teeth, then you will find you have a very unflattering and empty mouth. Just something to consider when using Erase White Paper, even on seemingly simple graphics.. Personally, I would have gone with Flinthillsky suggestion and just created it in designer, you then have a scalable graphic with good detail, same goes for the grid, simple job with the Grid and Power Duplicate tools.

Illustrator has similar geometry tools but also has Pathfinder tools... I've posted this so you understand what the OP is asking for. The Pathfinder: Merge option will retain all of the shapes colours, a bit like creating a compound object, so in Affinity you can use Layer > Create Compound and the colour used for an object which is placed at the lowest layer becomes the colour of the compound but... In illustrator using the Pathfinder: Merge retains all of the objects original colours and dependant upon where the objects are in the layer hierarchy and whether there is overlap of higher layers dictates whether the object gets subtracted from (see example of the illustrator Pathfinder: Merge in action)

Just tried setting the left colour to iMac1943 desired colour, and taking a sample from the mucky colour, then changing the colour format to CMYK and you get... And here is the doc to play with: green and green.afphoto

Saved with History: Techsmarton rough sketch.afdesign Font is Futura LT approx 40pt

As I have said the Graphic is quite a simple one and tracing seems a bit of a waste considering it would be easier to just draw it with the pen and type the text in seconds, to me this is like trying to put a block of stone back together after carving it into a statue. If you want a good trace post the jpg and ill use my app.

There is when using the Node Tool.

I have a very good tracing app, if you upload the jpg I'll see if I can produce something you can work with.

From the SVG, the trace has created a negative of the main shapes and text so the yellow is creating the shape. I think it would have been easier to just use the pen tool and find the correct font, the trace isn't that great either.

I would have thought the problem lay in the file format or export not necessarily Affinity, unless you can do what you want to do with the SVG back in CorelDraw. I don't have CorelDraw although I loved it when I used Windows, never understood why Corel Dropped Mac it would have been the go to vector app by now. Any chance you could attach the link to the post so we can get a better understanding?

Why not use Layer > Create Compound, to undo use Layer > Release Compound. You also get a few additional features

There is a Vignette Live Filter, the only issue is it's not moveable. A more controllable method is to create a Pixel layer above the image to be masked and apply an elliptical gradient in the colours of your choosing so in the case a black edge and white centre, then change the blend mode to Multiply if you want a black edge or and adjust the layer opacity for subtle effects.

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