Designer File in curves

[blackstone]

Hello.

I have created a Logo with text. After open the file again the text was changed in curves. How can this happen?

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, blackstone said:

How can this happen?

What kind of file did you save it as?

If you saved it as a .afdesign file, then possibly you accidentally converted them before saving. For example, if you pressed Ctrl+Enter (on Windows; possibly different on Mac), that is the keyboard shortcut for Layer > Convert to Curves.

[blackstone]

It was saved as designer - file without any keyboard shortcode.

[walt.farrell]

If you saved it as a .afdesign file, and later reopened it, then text objects should still have been text. I don't know of anything except Layer > Convert to Curves  (or its shortcut) that would end up with curves instead of text. Sorry. Maybe someone else will have an answer.

[Lee D]

@blackstoneWithout seeing this process occur it's hard to understand what may of happened. It's something that I can't replicate on macOS or Windows, is there any other information that you can provide. As @walt.farrell indicates, using File > Save will save to our native .afdesign format which allows everything such as layers to remain intact to be edited on reopening. Nothing should be converted to curves unless you choose to within the app before saving or if exporting to some formats.

[dannys81]

Hi Guys, 

Im new in this. I have this logo I want to separate or freely move the object but some how when I want to convert the curve the option is greyed out. May I know is theres only certain file type be able to use this? My file format is .png

 

Many thanks. 

 

[dannys81]

Attached are the project. Idea is I would like to separate the above G2 logo that I can be able to freely move them. 

[walt.farrell]

@dannys81: You have a raster (bitmap) image, not a vector image.

There are no functions in the Affinity applications to automatically trace a bitmap and make a vector from it. You can use other applications to do that, such as Inkscape or many others you'll find mentioned here in the forums. For that simple of a design you could also use the Pen Tool to trace the top part of the logo and make vectors from it.

But you don't need to do that for this simple case. You could draw a pixel selection around that part of the logo using the Rectangular Marquee Selection Tool, available in Affinity Photo or in the Pixel Persona of Affinity Designer. Then you could switch to the Move Tool, and simply move the selection as you want, which will move the contents where you want them. Note that you may have to Unlock the Background layer in the Layers panel, by clicking on its Lock icon, before you can move the selection.

[dannys81]

Hi Walt,

Wow! I really appreciate that. I will go ahead and try to do it according to your advice. Theres so many things I still need to explore for sure. 

Best regards,

Danny