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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

With this free template you can use the cool symbols function from Affinity Designer in Affinity Photo on you desktop and on your iPad. Download This tutorial demonstrates the use of the template Have fun to draw your own seamless repeating patterns. Norbert

With this Affinity Designer template you are able to easily create seamless repeating pattern with a nice preview inside the document. You can watch an introduction into the template on my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/dj2t50BLyPg and here you can download the Affinity Designer Pattern Template. These are some samples which I have already created with the Template: Hopefully, Affinity Designer also supports real vector patterns one day. Keep on drawin' Norbert