ALEX0105

any update on this? Has the issue been solved?

We went off topic

Lagarto, thank you indeed for your detailed post, this is exactly what I meant when I started the thread. Before writing here I really tried everything because it seemed impossible to me that a Vector software wasn't able to export full Vector files. It's really an unacceptable limitation of this App. If the developers will not fix this, to me it's almost useless.

Sadly true....

So I'm afraid I'll have to stick with AI..... It's quite disappointing as I liked the overall simplicity of Affinity...

Where can I find this feature? I will check The "select same" but I'm afraid it won't work in this case, cause every single polygon has a different shade or color, it must be a faster workaround. In the end how could I provide the customer with a common vector file, if they don't use Affinity?

This is a serious limitation of the program then. The obvious reason to save in pdf format when required, is to retain the vector shapes. How could I have worked otherwise? I used a vector design purchased as stock, and needed to change the colors. I couldn't just manually change every single polygon (hundreds of them) so I applied a overlap color mode to it. Pretty normal procedure. But when I have to output the design I need to give the customer a vector, not a raster image. When saving a file from illustrator as a pdf file, it's a full vector, so why shouldn't Affinity do the same? If this is the way it works, than it simply doesn't work. Any useful tip so I don't have to do the whole job again with AI?

I just realized after hours of work that I'm not able to export the file in pdf without parts of the design to be rasterized. Example: I have a polygon image of an animal, made of hundreds of polygons, and I needed ot chnge the colors: so I applied a colorize effect on that image to match the color scheme of the design. Same has been done for the backgound texture, I applied a color gradient. Now I tried ot export in pdf or swg and in both cases those parts have been rasterized and I canno tfind a way to have a real pdf vector. How is this possible? With Illustrator I had no problem to change colors using gradients or color effects and save pdf that are full vectors! Somebody could help me?