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I have reduced it and it was super slow, but when I adjust it to a ram speed I know I don't have it runs smoother and quicker but the spinning wheel is still happening just not at the rate when I use the lower settings as you suggested. Would love input from the Dev team on how that is possible and perhaps maybe even find the source of what plagues most of us with similar issues. I do appreciate all of your input.

Would you mind verifying that the screenshot that you were referring to was becca's and not mine so we can at least eliminate that out of the equation. Thanks Mike, greatly appreciate it 🙏

I made my settings exactly as the screenshot that Becca did. It's now worse than before. The spinning wheel of death spins even longer now. This is for a newly opened file and just simply dragging an asset onto the new document. Can you verify that you are looking at the correct screenshot? Mine has the "About this Mac" included so that it's clear what OS version I am running as well as the make year and model of my newly purchased Apple Macbook Pro. Thank you sir for any help 🙏

I'm Having similar issues but your instructions aren't clear to me, How do I turn off Hardware Acceleration and enable Metal? Looks like those 2 things are within the same setting. My issue is that I use Affinity Designer exclusively and I just purchased this macbook, using Sonama 14.1 but unlike my 6 year old macbook that went bye bye recently it shows the spinning wheel of death after each adjustment in any AD project I am working on. What would normally take five minutes is taking 15-20 to complete the task. Could you treat me like I'm from Mars and look at my attached screenshot and let me know what I can adjust to eliminate the issue. Just FYI I spent 3 hours with Apple Care with no success on this issue, I was passed off to 2 different "Higher Ups" and still same issue persist, the spinning wheel of death. I do have a bluetooth mouse and I was using an SD card to save my work on but changed that with a tiny bit of change in performance for a few clicks before returning to the spinning wheel of death at every adjustment, whether major or minor, even changing the spelling of text would cause the Spinning wheel. I also included the 'About this Mac' pop up window so you can see what I am working with make model and screen size. As of this moment everything is up to date with my OS and Affinity Designer is version 2.2 Thank You In Advance Mike for any help you can provide, even what I can do to optimize performance with the slider adjustments in the performance tab. I don't use this Macbook for anything else but Affinity Designer other than occasionally browsing google images for reference material or fonts. I use my ipad for everything else. 🙏🙏🙏

Got it working! Thanks Mate!!!

I recently started vectoring an object on my desktop (PC) and needed to export it to my ipad. I used google drive to drop the file on and then opened the file up on designer for ipad with Zero problems but when I completed the vector object and tried to export it back to the desktop it keeps exporting the objects as pixels even though I chose "editable" for all aspects of the file it still opens up on the desktop as pixels. Please Help! Thank you in Advance for any help!

Thank You!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!!! I see others have offered an alternate solution, but since I am not very clear about what it is just by reading it (That's always my problem, I need a visual/video) I will use your method Isabel :-) I am super happy and thankful to you Isabel for doing this :-) I think I could listen to you read the ingredients off of a cereal box LOL, you have a voice that is very easy on the Ears, Affinity should pay you to do all of their Tutorials :-) Thanks TO ALL of you who have offered contributions, tips, and solutions on this thread!!!! Greatly appreciative of this wonderful Illustration Affinity Community !!!!!! Happy Creating Guys!!!

Looking forward to the tutorial Isabel :-) Thank You!

Once you convert the Text to Vector it will revert to the same problem of an overlapping stroke. It's fine if you leave it as text but once you hit (Ctrl Enter) to convert it to (Curves) you get ....

Not to worry my friend I actually have forwarded this thread to a person on youtube that does a lot of Affinity tutorials, her name is Isabel, I am waiting on a reply from her as we speak and hopefully she'll be up for the task. As soon as I hear from her I'll let all within this thread know with a post. Thank you again for your input and contributions to this topic. Much Appreciated!

No apologies necessary RC, I do a ton of lettering in both printing and embroidering, so I know that this thread will come in handy again and again. I am a huge fan of a going over material even if I think I may know it already, the possibility that I may have missed something is very high. I thank you for being thorough. You are clearly great at being very detailed in your explanation and I urge you to do a video because based upon the responses within this thread there is a real need for it. The problem for me as an artist I am a visual and an auditory learner. Once you go beyond 3 steps in the written form I start to get a bit overwhelmed and can lose track of where I was and where I need to go. So 85% of the time I am going to get the full understanding from a youtube clip coupled with the written. It's just how I have always learned. So please do consider a youtube video RC :-) Thank You!

Exactly, I def see this guys issue, unfortunately the issues for me begin when you add a stroke. The Stroke will be visible on the neighboring letter instead of the stroke finding the outer most line of the scripted text. I hopefully have found the solution as I have described above with the using "erase" in Blend mode.

No Owen, It just stroked the individual letters and they overlapped each other, that wasn't the look I was going for. I liked your instructions for how they sounded, simple. Unfortunately, the didn't get the desired effect in the end.

Sorry Bud, here is what I used from you, "Alternatively, ungroup the group and 'Divide', which will give you separate shapes for the "holes"." At that point I just found the holes or loops and selected them, then I went to the blend mode and chose "Erase" and it Worked

Tried it, loved the simplicity of it but just did not work for me, if you actually can get this shortcut to work please make a video. So far using the technique described by Alfred plus using the blend mode and selecting "Erase" has been the only method that has personally worked for me.