thanks for looking into it acorn

yes I'll stick with 15.1 for this....

so two issues with 18.5 now, this and the issue where the colourline diamond markers are illegible on the cintiq pro

re the shapes: they were vectorised in illustrator keeping the background white; the backgrounds are all the same size and so aligning those to the same coordinates aligns the shapes; the white can then be erased/blended-out

in theory you can do that with svg, but in my experience you cannot rely on svg to maintain relative size during some of the process[es]