friedgoldmole

For some reason when I was selecting Paste Special from the edit menu, nothing happened at all, no dialog box showed up listing the formats available to paste in, however today it seems to be working fine. Weird, I never use a second monitor on this laptop (ref your suggestion it may have been showing up on another screen) so no idea what was wrong.

yup that works perfectly here as well, thanks! How on earth did you discover that, I assume you have some idea of what is going wrong in the background?

@SrPx so in lieu of Paste Special not doing anything at my end, I tried exporting the 2023 numbers merged curves to an SVG, then re-importing them using the File/Place command, opening the embedded svg layer, navigating through the layers to the curve layer, copying and pasting back into my original document and then using the Boolean Add function, and this worked as expected, so this seems to suggest your above solution would work for me, if only Paste Special was working. At least I have a viable workaround, though at this point it seems quicker to just use Inkscape until this is fixed.

@SrPx thanks for the workaround, only issue I have here is paste special doesn't seem to come up with any sort of dialog box even after enabling Copy as SVG and restarting (which I know shouldn't be needed) when copying the 2023 numbers (which I have previously used right click/geometry/merge curves on). Was it working for you on my example document, maybe the font I used is cursed and I need to start again. I rely so much on Boolean union type joins so hopefully your suggestions above will work in other situations so thanks for the steps! For reference I am doing this on a Windows 11 PC.

@Boldlinedesign thank you, I should have taken the time to demonstrate those additional boolean operations as I have the same results, e.g. nothing is working as expected. If I draw a number 2 using the pen tool and use the boolean operations it seems to work as expected so I did wonder if it was an issue with the font, but it was converted to a curve and ungrouped and I inspected the nodes and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

@michail I gave your suggestion a go but i end up with the following outline. It looks ok filled with black but is unsuitable for cutting. The result from inkscape using boolean functions is below, I added additional patterns around the text and changed the fonts in the end, but I was unable to get this result in Affinity Designer.

Hi Michail, I should have explained better but I was trying to generate a single outline for use with a cutting machine, like a cricut etc. Attached the final result which I ended up making in Inkscape. Ignore the empty quote below. Can't find any way to delete it on my phone. I will give your suggested workflow a go when I get a chance, but using the same methodology that fails in Designer as described above works perfectly with Inkscape, so assume it is a bug.

Just upgraded to version 2 of Designer and really disappointed to find the boolean operations are still broken and unreliable, trying to add two shapes together, one derived from text which was first converted to curves and ungrouped, with the correct layer order and tried with both Alternative and Winding fill types both result in a black box when using the Add boolean, not the expected result. Looks like I will have to go back to inkscape for this seemingly basic feature. If I try to do an intersect join with a simple box and one of the numbers as a workaround everything just disappears. 2023.afdesign

Is this GPU support supposed to be accelerating brushes yet, I have a few of the "IPad only" brush packs like Daub and they still run sluggishly with GPU acceleration enabled.

I thought this was mentioned as coming soon back in June when 1.7 came out. Is there any sort of ETA for this, or is Windows taking a back seat versus the Mac version?