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Using the Designer persona in Publisher, I observed the following:

  • if I lock a layer containing for instance a text
  • select all texts (the locked object is also selected, even if it is hidden)
  • change a property (e.g. color)
  • then the color of the locked object will be changed.

This looks like an undesired behaviour. I also wonder if hidden objects should be selected in the first place.

I have not tried but imagine that it also affects Affinity Designer directly.

Posted

You have discovered one of the most baffling things about the Affinity suite. Locked is not actually locked.

In my opinion Locked in Affinity is pretty much useless.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted

(@OldBruce The most baffling thing for me is that if you make alignment changes and then group or move those items, your alignment changes are lost.…)

Posted

Hence my questions to the Affinity team:

  • does it qualify as a bug?
  • if not, how are we supposed to subselect elements based on their type or properties, avoiding selecting corresponding objects *in the whole document*?
Posted
2 hours ago, LEB said:

Hence my questions to the Affinity team:

  • does it qualify as a bug?
  • if not, how are we supposed to subselect elements based on their type or properties, avoiding selecting corresponding objects *in the whole document*?

Is has been repeatedly stated in older posts) that it’s by design. Layer lock protects against layer movement (by move tool, not against movement in layer stack), nothing else.

If you need a selection by color tag, and exclude locked objects, you may assign them a different color tag.

all this is rated as no bug, by design. There are several feature request raised to change the design. The best course of action  would be to add your voice to one or more of these feature requests. Bug reports against features rated as by design will mostly be ignored.

I’m very dissatisfied with the status quo, too. 

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Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps.

I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.

 

Posted
51 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

Is has been repeatedly stated in older posts) that it’s by design. Layer lock protects against layer movement (by move tool, not against movement in layer stack), nothing else.

<pedantry>
Layer locking protects against anything you can do with the Move Tool or via the Transform panel, so not only movement but also resizing, rotating, and shearing/skewing.
</pedantry>

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