[[Affinity Designer] Importing brush info (paths) from Illustrator / PDF / SVG result in shapes]

Yes I think we are on the same page. Let me try that and I'll update later the upcoming week! Thank you so much for your input

[[Affinity Designer] Importing brush info (paths) from Illustrator / PDF / SVG result in shapes]

Thank you again for your input (Vielen Dank!). The problem for me however is that I have these problems within Affinity (I don't own Illustrator). Do I need to:

- center-line every line in the original Illustrator file

- export that individually to SVG

- export the other visuals (fills, other shapes that are actually shapes) from the AI document to SVG

- import both into Affinity Designer

- manually re-apply every 'brush style' to the first SVG (the center-line SVG)

- manually overlay (and re-layer) the second SVG (the 'other' visuals)

[[Affinity Designer] Importing brush info (paths) from Illustrator / PDF / SVG result in shapes]

Thank you for your reply. I am not a 100% certain if I understand you correctly but the 'closed form path' actually results in the 'shape'? If I import the SVG into Illustrator I do retain the full control over the brush-path though (like it is in the original AI file), so Affinity does something different. Is there an 'autotracer' feature in Affinity?

[[Affinity Designer] Importing brush info (paths) from Illustrator / PDF / SVG result in shapes]

Hi all! I've been using Affinity for years now and my experiences have been amazing. However, I've been running into an issue since I received some Illustrator files, as I can't seem to properly import them. The use case is as follows:

- I have some paths within Illustrator (line-tool, pen-tool, brush-tool)

- I export these paths as either .AI, .PDF or .SVG

- Importing them into Affinity Designer results in a shape

The line and pen paths import properly. I can manipulate them in Affinity Designer as paths (change bezier handles, change thickness, change stroke etc). However the brush path information is gone and I end up with a shape (in the form of the previous path + thickness), see the attached screenshot for a clear visual, but I really need the path info (for animation / scaling / etc).

I've attached some files for clarification. Is there a way to export / import the brush path info from Illustrator so it is exported as a path? Thanks!

Note: I looked through the forums, but couldn't find a relevant match. There are some topics about similar issues (using Photoshop / Affinity Photo), but I couldn't find a solution. I also can imagine that this question has been asked before. My apologies if this is a double post.

paths.afdesign paths.ai paths.pdf paths.svg