AD2.1.1: Contour tool applied to clip path gives correct result on screen, but is ignored by Print and Export

[purplie]

Summary: When editing a SVG file that contains a clip path, applying the Contour tool to the clip path produces the expected result on screen, but is ignored by Print and Export.  

Application:  Affinity Designer 2.1.1

OS: MacOS 13.5

Reproducible: Yes.  Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the attached SVG file.  It contains two images clipped to shapes (circles, in this simplified example).  It looks like this:

2.  In the Layers panel, select the clip paths (the circles, not the images).  Then use the Contour tool to expand the clip paths (circles) by 50 pixels.  The result is correct on the screen:

3.  Try to Print the file, or Export to SVG.  Observe that the changes to the clip paths were ignored:

Notes:

1. For simplicity, this example uses simple circles for the clip path.  My real use case involves applying the Contour tool to more complicated shapes.  So the "workaround" of increasing the size of the circles, rather than using the Contour tool, would not suffice.

2. I observe the same result if the clipped object is a simple colored rectangle instead of an image.

3. In Affinity Designer, there are apparently two ways to represent a clip path.  The first is to create a clip by using "Paste Inside".  This results in the clipped object being "inside" the clip path in the Layers panel.  The second is to open an existing SVG file with a clip path.  This results in a different structure in the Layers panel, as exemplified above.  The bug only impacts the latter representation. I don't know why AD uses different representations for the two cases.

4. For some reason, when I open this file in Affinity Designer, the document is 800 pixels wide instead of the expected 300 pixels.  I think that's a completely unrelated problem.  I can reproduce this bug using a similar document which opens at the correct size.

Thanks for listening.

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[NathanC]

Hi @purplie,

Thanks for providing detail along with the sample file, I can confirm I've replicated and logged this with the developers.