evtonic3 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Is there a way to copy paste nodes from a compound object? I have outlined text that copying the nodes of a letter and using it somewhere else is not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 What are you trying to achieve? give us a screenshot Can you not duplicate the layer with the text on it and move it out of the compound Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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...
evtonic3 Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 For example here, I need another "U". This happens if I have to work with a font that I don't have and I have to edit something. Obviously I can duplicate, break apart the curve of the whole compound object but this would be much easier and faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I see what you mean now, it will not let you pick out a group of nodes to copy and paste Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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...
Aammppaa Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 First thing to mention is that in Affinity a Compound is a very specific type of object (a live Boolean) - I don't think you are dealing with a Compound in this sense. I think you have a Curves object (some text which has been converted to curves), and you want to duplicate a letter, right? You could… Select the Curves object Divide to break into all the separate letters Group, so that the existing text remains intact. Now you can Control + Click to select an individual letter and Copy Paste at will. Note: For letters with holes (like the A and R) you will end up with 2 Curve objects (singular) - probably best to Subtract the holes to get a single Curves object (plural). Note: i and j will have a separate dot, which you should probably Add to the body to get a single Curves object. Hope that helps, as I can't think of a better method, other than finding the original font! Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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