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Can't do a boolean operation if top curve is not closed or not filled


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I use Affinity to create comics and frequently use boolean operations to create tails for word balloons when the built-in callout ellipse/rectangle tools aren't appropriate. In v1 it was possible to do this just by clicking three times with the pen tool and doing a boolean add. Now I have to either make sure the tail curve is closed (four clicks with the pen tool) or make sure it has a fill assigned, otherwise all it does is add extra vertices where it overlapped the first curve.

Example: top left are the base shapes, top right is what happens when those shapes are added in ADv1, bottom is what happens when those shapes are added in ADv2.

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Similarly it used to be possible to use boolean divide without a second operator on a shape consisting of merged non-overlapping curves to split them into separate curves, and now when I attempt this without setting a fill it just deletes them. Again, it works properly if the shape has a fill.

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30 minutes ago, christhes said:

it works properly if the shape has a fill.

Yeah, that is the bug here. Pretty sure that Affinity is aware of this one.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

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

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