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Software: Affinity Designer V2.4.0.2301 for iPad Goal: Create a seamless repeat pattern I am attempting to create a seamless repeat pattern using Affinity Designer V2 for the iPad. Below are the steps I’ve taken and the issue I’ve encountered. I have hand-painted my pattern elements (strawberries - see attached photo). I scanned my artwork, isolated each individual strawberry, and removed the watercolor paper background in Affinity Photo V2 for iPad. In Affinity Designer, I created a new document with 2 artboards. Artboard 1: 3000x3000 px Artboard 2: 6000x6000 px DPI: 300 I created the Symbols — I used the rectangle tool to create a square on top of artboard 1, and made sure that it was same size as artboard 1 (3000x3000 px) and the same position on XY axis. With the square selected, I opened the Symbol studio panel, toggled on “Sync Symbols”, and selected “Add Symbols from Selection”. I then copied the Symbol and pasted 4 times into artboard 2. In artboard 2, I repositioned each Symbol to sit in each quadrant of the 6000px square. X: 0, Y: 0 X: 3000, Y: 0 X: 0, Y: 3000 X: 3000, Y: 3000 I then added my raster strawberry pattern elements by copying them from a separate Affinity document and pasting and arranging them in the center of artboard 1. (**This is where I encounter the issue**) I then attempted to add strawberry elements to the edges of my pattern design in artboard 1. I moved a strawberry to an edge (NOT a corner) With the strawberry element still selected, I created a duplicate I repositioned the duplicate to the exact opposite side of artboard 1. Example: Original strawberry’s position on the Y axis was 162.3 px. For the duplicate, I added 3000 px so that the duplicate was positioned at 3162.3 px on the Y axis. I grouped the 2 duplicate pattern elements together in the Layer studio ISSUE: The program is exhibiting odd behavior when I attempt to position edge pattern elements. In some cases, the edge pattern element won’t even sync from artboard 1 to the symbols of artboard 2. In other cases, they do sync, but the colors don’t match at the seams. I have attached a photo and a screen recording. In the recording, as I move the 1st group of elements, you can see that the colors do not match up along the seams in artboard 2. As I move the 2nd group, you can see that the strawberry in the top-right quadrant of artboard 2 exhibits odd behavior (crosses the boundaries of the other Symbols), while the others do not. I would be happy to provide the file for further analysis, but need a private link to upload the file to. Note: I suspected that my raster strawberry objects might be the problem, however, I was able to replicate the issue with a vector element. Thank you in advance for your help!!! RPReplay_Final1711029472.mov

I switch from Adobe to @affinitybyserif after 11 years. I really miss: 1) serious control tool to check pdf after print, 2) equivalent ai pattern tool in designer, 3) more than 2 side by side pages in publisher. I hope you think about it, thanks a lot

Is there going to be a pattern feature in affinity designer soon?