Subtract Operation leaves a fine line pls help

[ashaapple]

I love affinity designer and I'm new to it and I really want this program to work better than adobe's. I just can't seem to figure out why when I subtract, it leaves a fine line after (on the red book). See attached file for more info. Even after exporting it is there.

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Edited April 24, 2019 by ashaapple

[carl123]

Your X, Y, W, X values in the Transform panel are not whole pixels for the 2 curve layers in the compound

Manually changing all 8 values (4 for each curve) to whole pixels should resolve the problem.

If you are only seeing whole pixels in your transform panel go into preferences and set the number of decimal places shown to 6.

When designing there are ways to ensure you only use whole pixels but how best to do that is best left to someone else that does this sort of work all the time, which I do not.

 

[lepr]

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[R C-R]

Hi @ashaapple & welcome to the forums. 

Since you said you are new to Affinity Designer, you may want to consider experimenting with a different approach than using a compound for the book, one that will avoid both the fine line & also any empty transparent areas that would reveal part of any objects placed behind it, that being the same nesting approach you used for the lines in the table.

Book - Clipped vs Compound.afdesign

Of course, it depends on what you want the book to look like where the pages & cover end on the right, but you can add nodes to the parent layer to do that:

[ashaapple]

I appreciate every single answer I have received. Thank you for spending time to help give me new insights and solutions!