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OK, I have double-tested the EMF bug in Microsoft Word 2019 and Excel 2019 16.0.13328.20128 without subscription and everything is fine. Office 2019 products do import SVG files as well, and no subscription is required. So the issue appears to happen in Microsoft Office 2016. However I had an opportunity to test EMF created with Affinity Designer latest customer beta 1.9.0.something in Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 25.0.0.60. And EMF appears to be broken: Inkscape 1.1 beta (and 1.0 release) cannot read Affinity Designer-produced EMF file and display white page. However Inkscape reads Illustrator-produced EMF file perfectly. You should really stop moderating me because of my bug report! Or I will have to ask my money back . I'm attaching files for my bug report with this post in 7z archive. Black lives matter, mumbojumbo EMF bug previewed in Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 25.0.0.60.7z

According to support article, Office 2016 SVG only works with paid Office 365 subscription - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/edit-svg-images-in-microsoft-office-365-69f29d39-194a-4072-8c35-dbe5e7ea528c?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us&fromar=1 I will double-test Office 2019 compatibility and report later today. Correct! We also use EMF & WMF format for legacy engineering programs. Such programs are not going to be updated ever again to support SVG because developers are mostly in graves. The best thing about Windows computers is legacy support. This is very important to do business! Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

EMF/WMF is broken at least with Office 2016 for me. You are welcome to contribute your bug report to this thread as well. Black live matter, mumbojumbo

EMF is the only way to insert scalable vector object in Microsoft Office applications, especially (in my case) to Word and Excel. We heavily use this to provide company style templates for Word/Excel that would print flawlessly. Nobody can argue you should respect market share of Microsoft Office products and provide a proper compatibility with them. EMF is a really powerful file format for scalable images which is often overlooked by users. Only SVG is better. Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

That's not me who hid valuable bug report without proper notification via PM. There is a reason for me to ask questions and use bad language. And your chronology of my posts is wrong. And you post off-topic here. Warning! Please stick to discussion topic which is "Why EMF export is not working correctly in Affinity Designer since day 1 and nobody fixes it?" Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

The EMF and WMF export feature is broken in Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.9.0.864. Have a look at my report with examples. Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

I double down on this. I have exported AD drawing to EMF and opened the exported file in Inkscape 1.0. All I see is white space. AD EMF export is broken.

I can see you're using current version of Word 2019, I'll double-check EMF claim regarding 2019. My file was created using Word 2016 and there is EMF bug in this case. However I can assure you everything works correctly when using EMF generated using Inkscape and Word 2016. I also have tried opening Circle.EMF generated by AD in Inkscape and the file is just white space. So it's still better to look into EMF export, it's broken! You are also completely wrong regarding WMF issue. I saved my circle from Circle.AFDESIGN to Circle.SVG using Addinity Designer 1.8.5 & 1.9.0, opened it in Inkscape 1.0 and saved to Circle-Inkscape.WMF. Circle-Inkscape.WMF works absolutely correctly when inserted in Word 2016, no extra white space. So WMF export is broken 100%!!! I've added 3 files mentioned above [Circle-Inkscape.WMF; Document (Word 2016 with Circle-Inkscape.WMF).DOCX; Document (Word 2016 with Circle-Inkscape.WMF).PDF] to 7Z archive and re-upload it here as Broken EMF-WMF Export Bug Report Source Files (Updated).7z Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

No it's not. The important files are gone. The 1.8.5 thread was posted by me not moderator. Without a proper 1.9.0 beta thread no developer will fix this before release and I will have to wait another year for a fix. I have reported this bug 2+ years ago in release thread and noone ever did anything about it. FFS is it like not enough disk space on a server to save a topic in beta forum? Like what possible reason can it be to remove a proper bug report on upcoming release?? Black lives matter, mumjumbo

You're welcome. Unfortunately it seems they are not willing to be helpful at all. Someone has even deleted my bug report in 1.9.0 beta forum this morning. And also has deleted my bug report files. If you ask me, this is some s***y attitude to a customer. Only Allah knows how many bug report has been deleted before.

1 topic with important example files attached. Now everything is gone!!! Who is responsible for this **** attitude to paying customer?

Are you nuts? Is this how you treat your consumers??? Restore my report now: the bug has been reported by me 2 years ago and still has NOT been fixed!!! Black lives matter!!!

I suggest you try saving file to SVG and opening in Inkscape 1.0, then saving to EMF and opening in PowerPoint. It should ungroup. The EMF and WMF export is totally broken in Affinity Designer since 1.6. Please have a look into my bug report featuring similar problem in Microsoft Word 2016+.

Hello developers, Please fix broken EMF and WMF export in Affinity Designer 1.8.5.703 in Windows 10. The bug is there at least since 1.6 (that's when I started using AD). Bug is also present in Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.9.0.864. Steps to represent bug in EMF export: Start Affinity Designer 1.8.5.703 Create New Document > Web > SVGA 800x600 Create grey circle 600x600 in the middle Export file to Circle.EMF Create new document in Word 2016 or 2019 (I cannot test in earlier versions) Drag and drop Circle.EMF into Word document Save Word docment as PDF using File > Save As > PDF Resulting PDF should display grey circle, however there's nothing displayed in PDF (white space)! Steps to represent bug in WMF export: Start Affinity Designer 1.8.5.703 Create New Document > Web > SVGA 800x600 Create grey circle 600x600 in the middle Export file to Circle.WMF Create new document in Word 2016 or 2019 (I cannot test in earlier versions) Drag and drop Circle.WMF into Word document Expected Word should display grey circle. The circle is displayed but it is 1/2 smaller and has a lot of extra white space around it. Save Word docment as PDF using File > Save As > PDF Resulting PDF has grey circle but it is still small Steps to represent correct behavior when exporting to EMF/WMF using Inkscape 1.0: Start Affinity Designer 1.8.5.703 Create New Document > Web > SVGA 800x600 Create grey circle 600x600 in the middle Export file to Circle.SVG Open Circle.SVG in Inkscape 1.0 Save Circle.SVG to Circle.EMF using Inkscape > File > Save As > Circle-Inkscape.EMF Create new document in Word 2016 or 2019 (I cannot test in earlier versions) Drag and drop Circle-Inkscape.EMF into Word document Save Word docment as PDF using File > Save As > PDF Resulting PDF shows grey circle correctly Same accepts (works correctly) to WMF export using Inkscape 1.0 I'm attaching source files (.AFDESIGN, SVG, EMF, WMF) mentioned in steps to this post in 7z archive — Broken EMF-WMF Export Bug Report Source Files.7z Black lives matter, mumbojumbo

Snapping not working in following scenarios: a) if I rotate object and then try to snap it's bounding box (or bounding box midpoints) to bounding box or nodes of another object; b) if both objects is rotated; c) if only destination snapping object is rotated. Basically you cannot snap to 90% of objects correctly using bounding box! Is that another "feature" of Affinity Designer or something's broken?