Convert to Curves wipes all my carefully selected layer names and leaves them labeled "curve".

[Otto Manuel]

Convert to Curves wipes all my carefully selected layer names and leaves them labeled "curve".

It's got to be a bug; who would want layer names they have patiently typed into the layers panel to disappear?

This issue causes me an unfathomable amount of time when I run a Convert to Curves command and then have to rename everything.

It's a bigtime bummer.

Is it on the fix list?

Thank you.

 

[carl123]

3 hours ago, Otto Manuel said:

Convert to Curves wipes all my carefully selected layer names and leaves them labeled "curve".

What are you converting to curves?

There is already a bug logged when converting a group to curves and the items in the group are renamed as curves

 

[Bound by Beans]

7 hours ago, Otto Manuel said:

This issue causes me an unfathomable amount of time when II run a Convert to Curves command and then have to rename everything.

It's a bigtime bummer.

Oh man, you're right. How primitive. It also happens in 2.5.7.

It seems Carl is right. I'm experiencing the same thing with whatever gets converted to curves inside groups, but if you select the elements inside the group, the group name is preserved.

Unfortunately, for some unfathomable reason, Affinity still doesn’t have a "select all elements at this level" function in the hierarchy. But you can select the top element on a level, then the last one while holding down Shift, and it will select everything between them. For example, A to D in the screenshot below, both included. So you can select elements level by level that way. Affinity: more busywork, more bugs, for your money. 

Here I'm missing a key shortcut, so that with A selected in the Layers panel, I could press "select all at the same level," and it would select elements A to D (and any groups at the SAME level), without selecting the group at the top of the document.

[lepr]

8 minutes ago, Bound by Beans said:

Here I'm missing a key shortcut, so that with A selected in the Layers panel, I could press "select all at the same level," and it would select elements A to D (and any groups at the SAME level), without selecting the group at the top of the document.

cmd+a (ctrl+a on Win) does that if, and only if, Edit All Layers is disabled at bottom left of Layers panel.

Not saying that is an adequate solution, just letting you know it exists.

[Otto Manuel]

The workaround is helpful, but it does not solve the problem when you have to select and process at the group level.

For example, If you are trying to process a Warp Group with a Convert to Curves command, you are basically doomed to lose all the carefully assigned layer names.

With my latest project, I am confronted with the need to process warp groups by converting them to curves, so that the bounding box resets to the span of the warped elements. If I proceed to convert the warp groups, I will lose several hundred carefully applied names, which will then make it nearly impossible for me to use the powerful Select by Name command to make global-level color tweaks to my carefully planned project layout.

It is a very frustrating dilemma.

Thank you.

[Otto Manuel]

17 hours ago, carl123 said:

What are you converting to curves?

There is already a bug logged when converting a group to curves and the items in the group are renamed as curves

 

My current need is to process Warp Groups with Convert to Curves to work around another bug.

The warping effect often extends shapes beyond the perimeter of the bounding box, and Adjustments and masks behave erratically outside the confines of the bounding box of the group.

Converting the warp group to curves works around that problem, but introduces the issue of disappearing names.

I love working in Affinity Designer, but I find myself spending a lot of time on housekeeping tasks.