Little Owl

Thanks Brian. I just remade the portion of one of the logos I had issues with using the pen tool & it looks clear now. I found some odd stuff happening in that it had somehow grouped a portion of the text to the image. Totally weird.

Thanks Brian, is the pencil tool also vector?

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year & thank you for your replies. I'm trying to achieve the quality I want in my logos & still struggling & unfortunately Serif Support have not been very helpful - they just tell me my files contain non vector graphics. QUESTION: If I create a line drawing using the designer pen or brush tool how do I get it to export as vector so it's clear like the text portion is in PDF etc??

Thanks heaps - I'll give that a go tomorrow as end of the day here in Australia.

Medical Officer Bones - hope you can reply as per my question above?

Yes, it looks sharper - thank you. Did you achieve that in Affinity or with Color Quantizer? I tried editing pixels but it didn't work - I ended up with blocky edges instead. If you could share your process I'd appreciate it.

SVG is vector format so it's not converting a vector to a bitmap from my understanding when exporting as SVG, simply converting a vector to a different type of vector?

I had the export setting selected but also tried high quality but unfortunately it made no difference.

Brian - The logo is being used in email signatures & in a web site, so it has to be viewed in a web browser. SVG was designed for internet use so you would think it would be the bets option. Palatino - at large size it looks fine - it's when used for a web logo that the client is seeing that it's pixelated - compared to an older logo she had elsewhere a few years ago - that old one is clearer & it uses script style font & has very thin lines in the graphic component as well, so I don't see why my design isn't at least as clear as that one. It's late night here in Australia so I have to sign off for now - I do appreciate all the advice from everyone, but it seems there is nothing I can do to fix it so I'm thinking I'll just refund the client the money & call it quits. I don't know what else to do.

But SVG export is vector, so I don't understand why my leaf elements in the design are not clear when exported as SVG? The original reply I received was as follows - can anything mentioned here make a difference? " They are likely not pixel aligned. View > View Mode > Pixels preview You may also want to turn on pixels as document unit, Force pixel alignment snapping, use and snap to a 1-pixel subdivision grid, set Preferences > User Interface > Decimal Places > Pixels: 6 (to see the actual misaligned values in the Transform panel), etc. "

So why is my grey shape not clear when it's made with vector tools?

I appreciate your help, I have created a 450px wide artboard & copy pasted the logo. Viewed in pixel view - it looks a mess. I added a rectangle to compare & it's crisp as anything. I drew a shape with the pencil tool & filled it - jaggy. Why? Here is a screen shot at 200% so you can see what I mean.

I am still trying to find out why it is not clear.

Thanks, I'm still seeing some jaggy in the white strip inside the leaves on both your version & mine. Can anyone expand on what Loukash said below regards not being pixel aligned? See my reply to him top of thread to see what settings I have.

That's odd as even the leaf is a bit jaggy in the SVG for me & the client. Could you attach your version so I can compare?