Cutting text from text

[Dave the one and only]

I am attempting to cut the text "CUT THIS" from the letter F. I've converted both "CUT THIS" and F to curves, ungrouped CUT THIS, then used geometry add  to make CUT THIS one layer. When I try to cut CUT THIS from the F with geometry subtract I get the result on the left. I cannot click and pull away on the CUT THIS and when it is unselected the CUT THIS outline disappears. I've tried with XOR and Divide with no success.

[Old Bruce]

Try changing the fill mode. No need to change the Text to curves, it should work without that. You may also need to assign a fill colour after.

[Dave the one and only]

If you mean colours, I tried this Old Bruce, still not working. I also tried clipping/masking it in Photo without success.

 

 

Monterey 12.2.1

Affinity Photo 1.10.5

[dcarvalho84]

Why don't you use the compound? I've used compound on the left (you can move the "cut this" ;)) and with divide on the right.

You just need to click alt or option and click divide to create a compound.

cut this.afdesign

[Dave the one and only]

Thanks it worked. Tried recreating what you did and couldn't seem to (option button)compound subtract text from text. Until I noticed it was working but, for some reason removing the fill colour.

Now is there a way to mark this solved?

[dcarvalho84]

34 minutes ago, Dave the one and only said:

Thanks it worked. Tried recreating what you did and couldn't seem to (option button)compound subtract text from text. Until I noticed it was working but, for some reason removing the fill colour.

Now is there a way to mark this solved?

Hold Alt (windows) or Option (Mac) on Keyboard and click divide with the mouse.