Crash after copying a curve

[st.guadagno]

Hi. I have a curve obtained opening a dwg in AD. When I try to copy and paste in another file, Designer crashes. I can attach the curve in the file.

Thank you.

DBGT_Linea di costa.afdesign

[st.guadagno]

Ok. You seriously need to face this problem!

I am having the very same problem copying images (pixel layer) from a file to another. After the copy command, AD crashes. Then I had an insight: I just disabled the Windows clipboard and suddenly AD has started to work normally and without crashes after copy.

But I really need the Windows clipboard function! How can I use both Windows clipboard and AD? 

[GarryP]

When I tried to copy the curve from your AFDESIGN file, Designer crashed for me too – on multiple attempts.

I don’t know why it crashed but the curve seems to have a very large number of nodes.

A large number of nodes shouldn’t be a problem though, so maybe the curve was ‘corrupted’ in some way when it was imported from your DWG file.

If you can supply the original DWG then a developer might be able to figure out if the problem is with the original file or not.

As for copying Pixel layers from one document to another, I’ve never had a crash when doing that.

If you can supply a document with which the crash can be replicated then that might help.

14 hours ago, st.guadagno said:

I just disabled the Windows clipboard and suddenly AD has started to work normally and without crashes after copy.

I’m not sure what you mean by that. Can you tell us what you did?

[st.guadagno]

On 11/26/2024 at 9:34 AM, GarryP said:

When I tried to copy the curve from your AFDESIGN file, Designer crashed for me too – on multiple attempts.

I don’t know why it crashed but the curve seems to have a very large number of nodes.

A large number of nodes shouldn’t be a problem though, so maybe the curve was ‘corrupted’ in some way when it was imported from your DWG file.

If you can supply the original DWG then a developer might be able to figure out if the problem is with the original file or not.

As for copying Pixel layers from one document to another, I’ve never had a crash when doing that.

If you can supply a document with which the crash can be replicated then that might help.

I’m not sure what you mean by that. Can you tell us what you did?

I also tought about some problem in the curve itselft, however, after disabled the Windows clipboard, suddenly the problem has resolved, both for the curve and the pixel layers. I can copy and paste really fast, while before I had to wait seconds or, sometimes, minutes. 
Speaking about Windows clipboard, I mean this feature:
About the clipboard in Windows - Microsoft Support

[GarryP]

That page talks about sharing the clipboard across devices, whereas the settings page it points to gives a few options, neither of which lets you “disable the Windows clipboard”.

Can you be specific about what you did?

[st.guadagno]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

That page talks about sharing the clipboard across devices, whereas the settings page it points to gives a few options, neither of which lets you “disable the Windows clipboard”.

Can you be specific about what you did?

I'm sorry, my Windows GUI is in Italian. However, i simply disabled "Clipboard History". The problem is that it's an important feature I need.

[GarryP]

Thanks for the extra detail.

It looks like this might be related to some existing problems with the clipboard history: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/214795-clipboard-history/

[st.guadagno]

On 11/27/2024 at 2:52 PM, GarryP said:

Thanks for the extra detail.

It looks like this might be related to some existing problems with the clipboard history: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/214795-clipboard-history/

Yes, but it's incredible, it's an Affinity related problem, because with other software it doesn't occur!

[GarryP]

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