[Opening non-Affinity files]

Thank you for the detailed information.  I was an avid Canvas user, and then went straight to Illustrator.  I am worried that now that they are now just selling subscriptions to "the cloud"  I may run into problems with it too.  I did have to change some Javascript to get it to run on my computer.

[Opening non-Affinity files]

Thank you for the link, I am on a MAC.

[Opening non-Affinity files]

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I have a bunch of files, similar to the one attached, that are drawings, I think they were done in Deneba Canvas over 20 years ago, that is drawing program although you could do a lot of things with it.  However, I no longer have that program and can't figure out how to open them.  Any ideas? I have added .svg, .eps and and several others, but they are still unopenable.

[Converting to PDF]

So glad to have found this topic and answer!  New to affinity and I couldn't figure out how to save anything in another format!

[Working off of the artboard]

Thank you.  I had looked at all the various choices in the Menu Bar, but had no idea what "Clipped to Canvas" meant!

[Working off of the artboard]

So far I am very happy with Affinity Designer.  Does exactly what I need.  Adobe abandoned those of us who don't want to subscribe to Illustrator.  On to my question.  When I have designed something and need to add to it I like to be able to work off of the artboard or on the "background."  However, if I move an object off of the artboard on to the background and click away from it, it is no longer visible.  I have lightened the Background Gray Levels, but the object is still invisible.  I see no changes in the Artboard Gray Levels.  I am working in MACOS 10.13.  Is it me or the fact that this is the free trial or...?  Probably the workaround would be to insert another artboard and delete it when I am done, but this was one feature that I took for granted in AI.