CTKJOSE Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Im importing a PDF with text, images and vector illustrations. When I try to select curves on the newly imported drawing the Move Tool with Auto Select on Default, selects text items that are not even close to the location where I click. Auto select on Objects does the same thing. The Auto Select only works correctly when a curve or item is near (sequential) on the layer list to the one previously selected and when there are no text items on the drawing. To get auto-select working I have to save the imported drawing to an affinity document, close it and reopen the affinity document. Quote
walt.farrell Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Can you share a sample PDF file that demonstrates the problem, and the Affinity document you saved from it? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
CTKJOSE Posted January 19 Author Posted January 19 Here is a smaller pdf sample. Just try to select on of the curves using the Move-tool w/ auto select. Also if I take the contents of the artboard/page (or individual group items) and paste it into a new document it works as expected. Im on Affinity Designer 2 2.5.7, Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) fittings.pdf walt.farrell 1 Quote
R C-R Posted January 20 Posted January 20 1 hour ago, CTKJOSE said: Here is a smaller pdf sample. Just try to select on of the curves using the Move-tool w/ auto select. Works fine for me. I'm using Catalina though. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
CTKJOSE Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 This is what it does on mine... Screen Recording 2025-01-19 at 10.39.37 PM.mov Quote
CTKJOSE Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 Now 1 minute ago, CTKJOSE said: This is what it does on mine... Screen Recording 2025-01-19 at 10.39.37 PM.mov Now that I look at it, is like the Y coordinate of the mouse click is off... Quote
carl123 Posted January 20 Posted January 20 21 hours ago, CTKJOSE said: To get auto-select working I have to save the imported drawing to an affinity document, close it and reopen the affinity document. I can confirm the issue for you Other than saving and reopening the document to cure it. I can, upon opening the document, do a Select > Select all then Delete and Undo, and the document also appears to cure itself CTKJOSE 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
CTKJOSE Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 7 hours ago, carl123 said: I can, upon opening the document, do a Select > Select all then Delete and Undo, and the document also appears to cure itself That seems like a faster workaround specially when I just need to get something out of the PDF... Quote
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