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Damned proprietary formats! Thanks for the explanation, I'll look forward to seeing how it all improves in the future. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks, @MEB! Something that occurred to me too - if it were possible to export as an AI file in the future could that mean the layers might work? I assume it's more complicated than exporting as a PSD or you'd have done it already, but if it were possible presumably the layers would work the same way they do with an SVG but would have things like CMYK support and similar. Anyway, thanks again for your time and help, everyone, much appreciated.

Thanks Lagarto. I mostly work in CMYK, and as everyone else uses Illustrator it has to work in that, and the SVG worked perfectly yesterday for the layers, but I had to convert it back to CMYK and then re edit all the colours to be the proper corporate colours again, which over several files was a huge pain! I can't do that every time, so that's a great shame Affinity won't work for me (for now, anyway). I was using a very old Illustrator 3 on a very slow Mac, so SVG did work on that too if anyone finds this in the future and is wondering (and doesn't need CMYK).

Hmm. So does this all mean that what I was trying to do is basically impossible - i.e. if I create an illustration in Affinity Designer that the end client then wants to use in Illustrator it's never going to work in either EPS or PDF - there's no way for me to send them a file with grouped and labelled layers? That's a real shame if that's the case, because I think that's probably the end of my Affinity experiment. A real shame as I really wanted to use (and love!) it.

Ah, apologies for that - I've just uploaded the affinity file.

This (recent-ish) thread: implies it won't work in Affinity but is possible in other vector programs (i.e. it's something Affinity doesn't do), but this one implies it will work fine in Affinity (as long as I remake the layers as layers rather than named groups): So who knows! Either way it's not working for me for whatever reason. Really frustrating.

Ah, really? Thanks. That's frustrating! The client's asked for an Illustrator file - do you know if there's another format I can export as that would work for this? They need to work with the file after me (turn some sections on or off, possibly move things) so I ideally need to preserve the organisation I've done.

Thanks! I've just uploaded. That's the file I've played about with a bit so some of the labeled layers are actual layers, and some are named groups. I understand if the groups ones might not work, but it would be great to get the named layers working then I can go through and convert them all. (Having said that, the SVG recognises the named groups as well!)

That would be great, thanks very much. A link would be great if you wouldn't mind, as it's for a client.

Thanks very much for the suggestion. Unfortunately though, yes, that box was ticked. I was originally trying to do it in the 'PDF for Print' mode and then tried 'PDF for Export' (very excited about this, as I was convinced that was going to solve it!) but PDF for Export didn't work either. Thanks again.

I've created some files with a lot of items and layers, all beautifully ordered and named. The names are important for the client I'm sending it to, as they'll need to move around the items in Adobe Illustrator. However, when I export to PDF or EPS, everything is just dumped in a big pile under Layer 1 / <Group> / <Path><Path><Path><Path><Path><Path><Path>. I read in a thread on here that implied it might be that although groups look like layers they aren't, so have tried creating a new layer, naming it, and putting the grouped objects in there (converting a couple of them to layers as well to test it), but no luck as PDF(for export) or as an EPS. I have managed to get it to work as an SVG, but that seems to be RGB only and I'm worried converting it back will screw up the colours. (I also don't always have access to Illustrator, so in the future this wouldn't work.) A different thread I read on here said anything over PDF 1.5 works, but I used 1.7 and no luck - this implies it should work and I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this? Any suggestions would be really appreciated!

Thanks for all your help - I'll have a fiddle around in the various pressure settings and see if anything changes. It's a Microsoft Surface Pro 6 13" and it just seems to be called a Surface Pen (Nov 2018 edition). I now don't think it's the pen, as I just realised I could test it on my old Wacom Cintiq 13HD and exactly the same thing happens - the end of the stroke flips over even drawing a simple square. Attachment shows it in outline mode and normal.

Ah, yes, I think you're right there, thanks very much. When I zoom in, there's a node just behind the final one and it seems to get hooked over at the end of every stroke. Zooming in and manually straightening it out does solve the problem for that stroke, but that's unfortunately not feasible to do every time and it does seem to happen every time. Argh! Possibly a problem with the way Surface pen works with Affinity, or just that Affinity's not designed for freehand vector strokes the way I'm drawing? I thought I was perhaps drawing too fast and hooking them over myself but it's also happening at the start of some of the strokes too which makes me think it might be the pen. It'll be interesting to see if anyone else with the same setup has had the same problem.

Thanks very much! Sorry about the image - I've tried it again but here it is on the image site just in case: https://ibb.co/gz0vh5n

Apologies if this has been answered before but I'm not sure how to verbally describe the problem so haven't found any matches in the forum. I'm an illustrator, and am attempting to transition from Adobe Photoshop to Affinity Designer (having also used Adobe Illustrator in the past). When I draw a stroke with the brush tool using pressure sensitivity the ends of the stroke look corrupted - I've attached an example. Has anyone else come across this - or even better, a fix? I'm on a fully up to date Windows 10 Microsoft Surface using a Surface Pen. This has been one of the issues that stopped me transitioning over fully in the past so I'd be really keen to find a way round it as I'd love to use Affinity exclusively - the way I build my illustrations means that the vector/pixel combo would be especially helpful.