wesleyb Posted February 23 Posted February 23 PROBLEM Given a placed document, And that document has an Artboard, Then I can not toggle visibility of Layers in placed document. Yet this feature is demonstrated in an official Affinity Designer YouTube channel tutorial. Q&A What Application are you using? Designer Are you using the latest release version? Yes, 2.6.0. Can you reproduce it? Yes. Does it happen for a new document? If not can you upload a document that shows the problem? Yes. Yes. […] include most of the following: What is your operating system and version? macOS Sequoia 15.2 Is hardware acceleration (in Preferences > Performance) ON or OFF ? (and have you tried the other setting?) On. No. What happened for you (and what you expected to happen). Provide a recipe for creating the problem (step-by-step what you did). See "STEPS". Screenshots (very handy) or a screen capture/video. See "SCREENSHOTS". Any unusual hardware (like tablets or external monitors or drives that may affect things) or relevant other applications like font managers or display managers. laptop, zero peripherals macOS Stage Manager a VPN service, force-enabled for every user account on my OS, but disconnected Did this same thing used to work and if so have you changed anything recently? (software or hardware) I think so, but I did not use it (but planned to). Yes, recently I upgraded to v2.6.0. Now, I can not use the feature I thought I had seen. STEPS Create a Document 1 ("Doc 1") with N layers. "Place" that document into a Document 2 ("Doc 2"). embedded or linked, does not matter Doc 2: ✅ I can toggle Layers of Doc 1. Doc 1: Create an Artboard with all the layers. Doc 2: ❌ I now can not toggle Layers of Doc 1. only Page Box and Artboard are available Doc 1: Move the layers out of the Artboard. Doc 2: ❌ I still can not toggle Layers of Doc 1. only Page Box and Artboard are available Doc 1: Delete the Artboard. Doc 2: ✅ I now can again toggle Layers of Doc 1. RESOURCES Video place doc with artboard removes layer visibility option.mov Files Test Placed Doc Layer Visibility - Doc 1.afdesign Test Placed Doc Layer Visibility - Doc 2.afdesign SCREENSHOTS No Artboard; Can Toggle Layers Doc 1: Doc 2 : Has Artboard; Can NOT Toggle Layers Doc 1: Doc 2: Empty Artboard; Can NOT Toggle Layers Doc 1: Doc 2: RESEARCH YouTube: https://youtu.be/2wbGoyKmTrU Forums: I searched by title for "layer" AND "embed". I searched by title for "layer" AND "linked". Release Notes: I read search results for "layer", "embed", "link" in: 2.5 Release Notes (improvements and major fixes) 2.4 Release Notes (improvements and major fixes) Test Placed Doc Layer Visibility - Doc 1.afdesign Test Placed Doc Layer Visibility - Doc 2.afdesign Quote
Staff NathanC Posted March 3 Staff Posted March 3 Hi @wesleyb, This has been logged with the developers, thanks for providing a detailed report. Quote
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted March 6 Staff Posted March 6 The issue "The Layer Visibility Options are Missing When an Artboard with Layers is Placed into Another Document" (REF: AF-5990) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.2.3187). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release. Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions. If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us. Quote
wesleyb Posted March 9 Author Posted March 9 (edited) Verified; fixed in beta: 2.6.2.3187. Appreciated! — UPDATE: Fixed, visible, but not functional if a new Layer is outside the Artboard of embedded document. See next reply for details. Edited March 10 by wesleyb add update, so people don't stop at this message without realizing a follow-up problem exists. Quote
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