Compounds not working with (even converted) text

[maxen]

Compounds seem completely broken when using text. Even when text is converted to curves, letters like B or S break the compound completely. Moving the text results in different weird results.

[NathanC]

Hi @maxen,

I've not been able to replicate your issue yet with subtractive compounds on text/curves on a new document, could you confirm if disabling Hardware Acceleration resolves this (Edit > Preferences > Performance > Untick > Reset App). If not, could you provide me with the file you're encountering the issue on? I can provide a private upload link if need.

Many thanks!

[4dimage]

Hi Nathan,

for the reproduceable bug look here and elsewhere

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=boolean subtract&quick=1

 

 

And a little workaround since it will be fixed:

 

[NathanC]

Hi @4dimage,

Many thanks for linking your topic on this as i'm able to replicate this issue using your file and since my previous post on a new document using Arial Text converted to curves. This is currently logged with the developers, I've added both report(s) and additional details for consideration.

[maxen]

I think it's not a problem of the compounds rather of the text conversion. The curves seem to be not closed, although they pretend to be. Trying to fix them does not work because, well, they THINK they are alright already. Maybe it can be broken down to some specific fonts; I didn't test this.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Boolean Operation fails on text converted to curves" (REF: AFD-6172 & AFD-5816 ) have been fixed/improved by the developers in internal build 2.1.0.1709
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.