Dazmondo77

Thats your problem by the sound of it just convert them back to vectors and all should be good

Can you post the file so we can track down the rasterising culprit?

Oh... and all your fonts - just make sure all your raster work is behind the vectors + any FX on vectors will rasterise

Try grouping all your vectors and putting them at the top of the layer stack

Great stuff Andy, look forward to testing👍

All actions: new document, open existing document, open stock image, drag and drop - result in bombing Crashed Thread: 9 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.utility-qos Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000004358 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb Terminating Process: exc handler [11151] Full crash log attached: Affinity photo beta 1.9 mac crash log.txt

Great app which I use just about everyday, also does halftone dot and line conversions, great for screen printing and just copy paste your new vectors into Affinity apps

In Affinity apps your colour documents colour profiles need to be exactly the same to preserve colours. The easiest way to keep colour values when copy pasting, means you need to ASSIGN the same profile to the document you want to paste from, to match the designation doc, if you convert (which is the default???) it will mess up the colour values throughout your document, and even converting back will make another mess of the colour values --- ASSIGN is the key to retain values between documents

Been getting by using this "TRICK" for a while now, really missing that lovely slug area🤪

As this is a much requested "feature" (taken for grated standard) is there any future plans to change the above Serif view?

"selection sets" or "tagged layers" YES PLEASE!!!

I did a similar post the this, but after using since the update, It definitely works better although there does seem to be a slight lag for it to highlight the destination compared to before - just about got used to it now

I've not experienced any curser problems since the reboot Thomaso - but when I reboot, since the last security update, everything goes great, but around a minute after startup everything locks up, I can move the curser but not click or select anything, which can last around five minutes then everything just works as normal?

I noticed in your screen grab, you have snapping turned on, If you have lots of vector points in your doc, I'd suggest switching off snapping which usually speeds things up for me - Worth a shot!

I'm getting it on Mojave - I first noticed it locking in the down position when a Designer document was using most of my system memory and went into beachball, so thought it was a one off, but I've just had a look in Pub, and as above, when zooming in and out it has the bug and sometimes locks in the lower position - no big deal Screen_Recording_2020-08-11_at_19_20_25.mov

I had a few issues after 1.8.4 including the curser always defaulting to the move tool when using any of the tools which was affecting all three updated apps - which I'm guessing now was actually defaulting to the the standard Mac arrow curser --- try rebooting your Mac it worked for me

R C-R I was actually using the mouse for the screen capture, but it was the same using the stylus - I quit and did a reboot and all seems fine - for now - I'm wondering if it was an OS prob defaulting to the standard mac arrow curser, as my system as been acting up a bit after the last (mid July-ish) mac security update, with some unusual hangs after boot-up where everything locks and seems un-responsive for a few minutes, then comes back to life??? I see you're on Mojave, have you noticed any unusual hangs after the last security update? I've done various searches and can't find anything recent that relates to my prob

R C-R - Just been having a play around and I'm kind of getting used to it - I guess it should help with the problem of mistakingly placing an object inside a container when you just want to place it behind which I've done many a time - so yes, dragging to the middle and right is working for me now, although it's the preview of the action which seems a bit slower to update ---👍---

I'm assuming this is a bug - whatever tool I select, the curser changes to the move curser and doesn't show the correct curser until you use the selected tool, after use it quickly changes back to the move curser - I can't remember seeing this behaviour before? Screen_Recording_2020-08-04_at_15_47_58.mov

I't worked great before, quick and snappy, now seems like a huge back-step with delay and uncertainty wether the goal is achieved DAMN! I have the mac App Store version so can't go back to 1.8.3 - well still works better than Illustrator CS5

Hi Updated all to 1.8.4 👍 well done on all the bug fixes, drawing with the pen tool seems to be working great. I'm just struggling with the dragging layers into vector containers behaviour, weras in 1.8.3 and previous it was instant, now there seems to be a delay which is slowing me down quite a bit - I get that you now have to really move to the right and wiggle whatever you place inside the container - is this by design? if so maybe a colour change to green for the overlay to show what's happening or something to indicate you've achieved the goal - just wish it was as responsive as before which always worked great. It's really getting to me so thought I'd upload a quick demo vid just to check to see if others are experiencing the same problem? Screen_Recording_2020-08-04_at_10_18_08.mov

Sorry sfriedberg I was on a rant after yet another added session of box ticking. So lets agree that "the only sane option" would be to have a master tick box or preference to enable ticked or unticked as default - I think we probably work in different sections of the design industry and yes with logos I do normally convert all strokes to paths, it's so many times I've done something like an album cover where I usually work to 320mm square incase theres a vinyl release, usually all vector and usually pretty complex so I have to size down for CD and size up for say a 2meter square backdrop and I always get caught - I remember when I mainly used Illustrator for vector illustration it was a few seconds to fix with the find same options - also really looking forward the find same options being available in affinity (as hinted in a few forum posts), and who knows when this feature finally lands, we may have a way around the problem???

Sorry for the rant! Forgot to just do this: True Vector Brushes +1 Blob Brush +1

Yes very frustrating Yes - been requesting since first release?!?!?! I have to say as there years slide by I find myself turning less and less positive towards Affinity, as I think my first set of posts when this forum was first made available, was the need for a fair few things including true vector brushes and a blob brush along with my No1 missing "feature" Vector distortion / perspective warping, I say "feature" as I wouldn't class any of these as features, I see them as bog standard vector tools for any software that classes itself as a professional vector application - I have been trying to keep positive, especially when receiving any kind of moderator feedback and seeing that old list of goals for the future - I used to just try and be patient - thinking what are we gonna do if it takes two or three years for these basics to appear ---- FIVE YEARS LATER ----- and now it pisses me off that I have to use the ten year old (and considered obsolete) Illustrator CS5 to plug gaps - I just wish Vector styler was as easy to use as Designer as it has all the basics (including vector brushes, Vector distortion / perspective warping) along with lots of other "features" it looks like it's been in development for around two years and it's not even released yet

This method only works for parent items - it's the vectors inside vector containers that are the problems and with a complex piece of work, currently the only way around it is to dig down through the layers, groups and containers within containers within containers etc... and tick those pesky tick boxes then after what seems like an age resize and discover you've missed a few so go on a hunt for the offending few - say you create a logo or a vector album cover or whatever it will need to be sizeable from button badge to billboard with no bother - just having those tick boxes pre- ticked by default can save loads of time and a potential ton of grief