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Why do you need to merge them, couldn't you just Group them, then export them to whatever format you wish?

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Hi, Artcraft,

While there are quite a few similarities between Illustrator and Designer, basically they work differently. From what very little i know of Illustrator, none of the pathfinder operations has a direct equivalent.

A Designer method that might work for you is to create the three shapes of the top most leaf/seed triad. Two all black on the sides, the center w. a thick white stroke. Select those, and do a power duplicate in an appropriate downward interval. Then, dupe one of the all black leaves, rotate it back to vertical, and align on the stack of cent leaves.

See below. Took about a minute, and most of that was trying to do approximations of the proportions of the parts by eye. The top triad is selected to show what was duplicated.

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On 10/3/2018 at 12:01 AM, firstdefence said:

Why do you need to merge them, couldn't you just Group them, then export them to whatever format you wish?

No, I needed the white to be transparent like this:

7.thumb.jpg.13e82888ed26e0d7baa9fa0817f27c5d.jpg

On 10/3/2018 at 12:47 AM, gdenby said:

While there are quite a few similarities between Illustrator and Designer, basically they work differently. From what very little i know of Illustrator, none of the pathfinder operations has a direct equivalent.

That's true. ^^ I thought, hey buy Affinity Designer, jump in and do the same stuff as in illustrator... but that doesn't seem to work quite well ^^ To be honest I couldn't quite follow your steps (maybe because english isn't my native language :D) but thanks anyway, I choosed the easier way and went back to illustrator. ^^ I try to master the pathfinder tool in Designer another time...

One thing... only out of interest ...(mhh I guess this would be better to post in a new thread?) anyways, ...i guess there isn't an isolate option in Designer?

Want to select a single object:

8.jpg.79e3e264c5b52f55be716691ec7280fa.jpg

But even with double click i get the whole object: (they are not grouped, ungroup is greyed out)

9.jpg.a8c6f89005a78511125ac07f6f0b7c6d.jpg

is there any way to isolate and transform individual objects like in illustrator?

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1 hour ago, Artcraft said:

No, I needed the white to be transparent like this:

7.thumb.jpg.13e82888ed26e0d7baa9fa0817f27c5d.jpg

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Then do what I did in the gif I posted above.

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