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Vector files are being flipped vertically on canvas when opened


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I've been having a strange issue for a while on my Macs with Affinity Designer, v.1.8.3 on both. If I open any vector file (PDF or SVG), the canvas representation of it is flipped vertically. The preview image in the layer window is correct, and the resultant images that are exported are correct, but the display canvas itself is flipped. This obviously makes it hard to work with such documents. I looked for global preferences that I might have changed, but nothing seems to fix this problem.

The one thing that does fix it is if I select and copy the contents of the vector document while open, and then do New From Clipboard. Then the orientation is correct. Weird!

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Hi dogcow,

Could you attach a couple of the sample files you're opening please? We're aware of an issue where small sized documents can open in this manner if opened from Finder when using Separated Mode. Are you using this mode?

You should be able to correct this by going View > Reset Rotation.

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10 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Hi dogcow,

Could you attach a couple of the sample files you're opening please? We're aware of an issue where small sized documents can open in this manner if opened from Finder when using Separated Mode. Are you using this mode?

You should be able to correct this by going View > Reset Rotation.

 

hi Sean, good guess. I am indeed using Separated Mode and they do seem to always be small files. Reset Rotation did fix it, thanks! I think I found that trick months ago, but the canvas got messed up again at some point. 

The attached file is the latest to have this issue. When the star opened upside down I half expected Black Sabbath to start playing.

stars-24px.svg

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