W10M Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Hi, I have two questions: 1 - when I try to use the union tool to combine more than two curves, the program freezes. I've just discovered this tool and really like the idea of it. Is the freezing a bug or am I using it incorrectly? 2 - I just converted my own text to curves and want to overlay the series of curves on top of a photo, so that the text cuts out the photo and makes it look like the letters are full of the original picture (badly explained...sorry)...is this a boolean tool? Can you tell me how to do this with multiple shapes? I can get a picture to jump into one shape, but not into multiple shapes (which is why I was excited for the union tool in #1). Can you give suggestions? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted March 15, 2018 Staff Share Posted March 15, 2018 Hi W10M, Does the program freeze until you close it or is it just for a moment? I'm not sure If I understand you correctly but it sounds as though you want to clip the Photo to your curves if possible could you provide the file in question so I can make sure I understand you fully? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W10M Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Yes, I do want to clip the photo to the curves. And yes it freezes until I have to close the program. I've attached the file. Thanks! I'm really just trying to learn how to do more in the program. I used to work with illustrator, but this is a bit different. Riley.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W10M Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 I have figured out my own problem! - some of my curves were not closed (even though they looked like it) and so they were not able to combine. When I went through with a close zoom, and closed all the curves, I was able to combine all the text curves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfred Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 7 minutes ago, W10M said: I have figured out my own problem! - some of my curves were not closed (even though they looked like it) and so they were not able to combine. That’s very odd! Any time I’ve tried to perform geometry operations with unclosed curves in either of the Affinity apps, the app has automatically closed the curves for me. 10 minutes ago, W10M said: When I went through with a close zoom, and closed all the curves, I was able to combine all the text curves. It would be helpful if the labels in the Layers panel distinguished between closed and unclosed curves. Gear maker, R C-R and BobsDaubs 3 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 39 minutes ago, Alfred said: It would be helpful if the labels in the Layers panel distinguished between closed and unclosed curves. That would be very helpful indeed! BobsDaubs 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smth Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Union is hanging for me right now. Progress bar has been at 100% for a few minutes. This has happened after dividing some curves, making some adjustments, then attempting to unify them again. We're probably talking about 50 curves, nothing too complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 31, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hi smth, Do you mind uploading the .afdesign file using this link (or attach it to your reply as you prefer) for us to take a look please? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smth Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 I don't have the file in that state any more I'm afraid. Upon retrying, the process completed, but gave unexpected results - some of the curves were being excluded. I guess this might be related. (This issue seemed to be caused by paths that had somehow ended up something like the attached. Tidying them up, resolved the issue). example.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 31, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hi smth, Yes, in some cases the boolean operations still fail to calculate the end result properly. We already have quite a few files/cases logged. We hope to improve this as we move forward. Thanks for the details and sample file. Glad you've sorted them with some tweaking. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlayfield Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Hey all, I'm also having an issue whereby AD hangs when selecting multiple complex curves and selecting Add. There's unfortunately no way to cancel the action or engage with the UI, and so forcing the software to quit from within Activity Monitor seems to be the only way out. I don't tend to work with crazy complex curves or shapes, but in this case it's unavoidable as I've opened an old AI with a vectorised illustration. All I need to do is unify the two areas of the illustration (the black 'outline' as one shape, the white 'fill' the other) but this involves selecting many, many small shapes (curves) of the same colour and combining them - which is where AD appears to struggle. Is this expected? I can understand that performing operations on complex curves can require some processing but, in the event that it takes an unexpectedly long amount of time to process it would be worthwhile having a Cancel button beneath the Union dialog so that an alternative method of unifying curves can be attempted without forcing the software to quit. Loving AD, though. Massive fan right here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 On 3/15/2018 at 12:25 PM, haakoo said: Easier way to achieve this is; Convert all your text to curves>Expand stroke>drag the image inside the curves-layer. _Hans No need to convert to curves just make the image a child of the text and the text will clip the image. Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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