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I have found that multiple blue rectangles all in one layer appear when I select certain tools such as vector flood fill or the knife tool. Selecting another layer instead of the one where they appear causes them to disappear, but toggling visibility of the layer makes no difference. What causes them?

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Without seeing more of the screen I would guess that they are layer bounding boxes but I can’t be sure.

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Thanks for the screen shot.

A layer bounding box is a rectangle which delineates the extents of a layer; it says, essentially, but not always exactly, “this is the area of the layer”.

However, in this case I don’t think the blue rectangles are bounding boxes.

Can you share the document with us so we can see what’s inside the Layer1 Layer aand see if we can get the same thing as you?

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22 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Can you share the document with us so we can see what’s inside the Layer1 Layer aand see if we can get the same thing as you?

Or, at least, expand Layer1 in the Layers panel and show another full-screen screenshot.

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I have a feeling that the contents of the Layer1 Layer might be embedded SVGs, or something like that, where the rectangle we see is the bounding box of the embedded document rather than the contents of those documents.

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I attach the document. The appearance may be due to my attempts to draw a rectangle without it vanishing immediately. I know that can be due to the "stroke" being set to be absent but here the "stroke" is set to be visible. Meanwhile I have palpitations which are ruining my concentration.

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Thanks for the document.

The blue rectangles are the bounding boxes of the layers inside the Layer1 Layer.

There’s probably not a lot that you can with those when it comes to using the Vector Flood Fill Tool or Knife Tool as most of them don’t overlap the shape of the person, if that’s what you are trying to fill or cut.

It’s unclear to me what you are trying to achieve so I can’t really advise further without more information.

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The person is on the layer below the "Layer" which you have selected. The Layer is set to 0% opacity. The rectangles in that Layer have their fills set to 7% opacity for the most part.

Select the layer below the Layer and use the Knife tool on that.

1 hour ago, jsampson45 said:

I attach the document. The appearance may be due to my attempts to draw a rectangle without it vanishing immediately. I know that can be due to the "stroke" being set to be absent but here the "stroke" is set to be visible. Meanwhile I have palpitations which are ruining my concentration.

 

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