boolean operation "subtract" on text

[superhaschi]

I´d like to cut out (subtract) WORLD from HELLO.

When using "subtract" I get a wrong result: WORLD is included in HELLO and not cutted out; I've tried it with text and curve-converted text.
When I do it with normal shapes (e.g. rectangles) I get the appropriate result

[Gear maker]

38 minutes ago, superhaschi said:

I´d like to cut out (subtract) WORLD from HELLO.

You are right in trying it with the text converted to curves.  When you do it you can not use groups though.  You will have to expand the groups or ungroup them then select the H W O R L D.  The H must be the lowest in the layer panel.  If after doing all this it still doesn't look to have worked go into the menu Layers>Fill mode and make sure the Alternate is selected.  It should then be working.

[superhaschi]

hello Gear Maker,

many thanks for your repley ... ungroup etc I know..., but the fill mode was new to me and with Alternate selected it works fine

but I think this workflow is new in 1.9; I haven't have this issue before; when I use normal shapes I get the right result without selecting Alternate filling

[lepr]

Here's how to do it with no converting text to curves and no messing with fill mode:

keep as text.afdesign

Make a Compound by holding down option/alt when clicking the Subtract button or picking command Layer > Geometry > Subtract.
Give the Compound a fill colour if it is created without a colour (a bug when lowest operand is text).

 

[Gear maker]

@anon2 I had gotten to this point when playing but hadn't noticed the fill was missing so I figured it didn't work.  Thanks for pointing this out.

[superhaschi]

many thanks for your input and the file! - it works for me like a workaround, but it works 😀

but... I'm afraid it's a bug; when I draw a H-shape  and a W-shape it works without any compounds and filling mode. Just marking the shapes and choosing "subtract" - ready 

[lepr]

42 minutes ago, superhaschi said:

many thanks for your input and the file! - it works for me like a workaround, but it works 😀

but... I'm afraid it's a bug; when I draw a H-shape  and a W-shape it works without any compounds and filling mode. Just marking the shapes and choosing "subtract" - ready 

If you draw an H-shape, it will have Alternate fill mode, whereas an H from a font will have Winding fill mode and hence the different result when an object is subtracted from the drawn shape versus the font glyph.

[Pšenda]

Try set Blend mode to Erase for text layer with World.