Problems with Boolean Operation 'add'

[Malena]

Hi there,

I'm regularly having the following problem when I join two objects: 'holes' are also displayed in colour even though they shouldn't be. I have tried all possible varieties in terms of order of selecting items and the order which item is in the front or back. Sometimes this helps, but I couldn't find any pattern how I could avoid this problem. 
I might also mention: when I export as SVG and open in another program the holes are not displayed in colour.

On the example below I also have some strange thing going on with some of the letters (it was a text transformed to curves).

I have no idea why this is happening and wether the two things have something to do with each other or not. There are no groups, layers whatsoever..

I hope somebody will be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong, thank you in advance!
Malena 

[Lee D]

@Malena Can you provide the Affinity Document so it can be checked, can you also confirm your workflow up to the point of this happening.

[Malena]

@Lee D sure. You'll find everything in the document

boolean.afdesign

[G13RL]

Hi @Malena,

Once step 3 is complete, "Layer", "Fill Mode", change from "Winding" to "Alternate" should solve the problem.

[Malena]

@G13RL Oh thank you so much it works!!! That's a real game changer for me, and so simple 🪄

I guess the problem with the text is caused by the particular font? I tried some different ones which work. 'American Typewriter' causes problems whatever I do.

 

[G13RL]

34 minutes ago, Malena said:

@G13RL Oh thank you so much it works!!! That's a real game changer for me, and so simple 🪄

I guess the problem with the text is caused by the particular font? I tried some different ones which work. 'American Typewriter' causes problems whatever I do.

 

Thanks for the feedback, it is indeed possible that this font has a design problem that causes the disorder during the boolean operation "Add".

[Old Bruce]

45 minutes ago, Malena said:

I guess the problem with the text is caused by the particular font? I tried some different ones which work. 'American Typewriter' causes problems whatever I do.

 

I have been playing about with the file and yes, it is a poor font. American Typewriter causes me grief. All the other fonts I tried worked well.

[Malena]

@Old Bruce thank you.. so at least I know it's not me 😅