jsampson45 Posted yesterday at 01:01 PM Posted yesterday at 01:01 PM 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? Quote
GarryP Posted yesterday at 01:04 PM Posted yesterday at 01:04 PM Without seeing more of the screen I would guess that they are layer bounding boxes but I can’t be sure. When posting screenshots, please give us full-screen screenshots (showing the whole application UI) where possible. Full-screen screenshots are often more useful for diagnostic purposes than limited-area screen-grabs. We can always zoom in to full-screen screenshots to see the details but we can’t ‘zoom out’ to see information that hasn’t been provided. If there is information on the screen which you don’t want to be made public then you can take the screenshot and then manipulate it in any Affinity application before posting. For example, you can draw a filled rectangle over the information you don’t want us to see, or Blur the area, and tell us that you have done that so we know that what we see isn’t exactly what you see. If you are using more than one screen then a full-screen screenshot of each screen you are using the application on would help. Quote
jsampson45 Posted yesterday at 01:07 PM Author Posted yesterday at 01:07 PM What are layer bounding boxes? The full screen is here: Quote
GarryP Posted yesterday at 01:19 PM Posted yesterday at 01:19 PM 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? Quote
walt.farrell Posted yesterday at 01:42 PM Posted yesterday at 01:42 PM 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. 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, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GarryP Posted yesterday at 01:47 PM Posted yesterday at 01:47 PM 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. Quote
jsampson45 Posted yesterday at 02:42 PM Author Posted yesterday at 02:42 PM 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. womanFromBack.afdesign Quote
GarryP Posted yesterday at 03:00 PM Posted yesterday at 03:00 PM 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. Quote
Old Bruce Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
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