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15 minutes ago, MiriamBoulderCO said:

I tried to apply "Xor" or "Divide" operation on a vector design to separate opaque background from a foreground object in the design. As I understand them, both operations failed. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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  • Use other vector drawing programs for divide/xor
  • Serif have been told for years that divide (and more) is unusable in many use cases - Serif may improve it in the forthcoming release 1.9 of Designer - no one knows for sure when or if it will be improved

If you need more precise suggestions you could share your file(or something similar) with us. 🙂

Personally I gave up - I use other programs for work that requires medium advanced features for me to work in an acceptable pace. Or work at all.

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Well, thanks for that help. Now I can stop banging my head against the wall. As a new user of AD, I was unaware that the failure was a 'bug' and not some complication that I did not yet fully appreciate (locked object; pixel persona vs design persona, raster vs vector.....etc). I am also not a designer!!! So always suspect my ignorance before I suspect a bug!!! So THANKS for the heads up. Was hoping for more from Designer. Maybe I need Illustrator, but don't want to pay my good hard-earned money to Adobe for a program I use rarely. hmmnnnn....

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41 minutes ago, MiriamBoulderCO said:

I was unaware that the failure was a 'bug' and not some complication

Without giving an exact description of what you want to do, it's hard to judge. But from what you write here,

1 hour ago, MiriamBoulderCO said:

separate opaque background from a foreground object

however, I feel that you may not be using vector boolean functions correctly.

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13 hours ago, MiriamBoulderCO said:

I tried to apply "Xor" or "Divide" operation on a vector design to separate opaque background from a foreground object in the design.

From that description, it sounds like you have a raster image,, not a vector design. If you had a vector object you would not need to do anything to separate it from a background.

The boolean operations are only used with vector objects, not with raster objects.

If you can share your design, or at least a screenshot of the workspace and the Layers studio panel, someone may be able to advise an alternate approach.

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