Aliforce

Thanks so much for this! It has been driving me mad today in a 500 page book I'm formatting. I checked everywhere except the Text Styles I'd set up. BINGO! Give yourself a gold star.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I was having multiple crashes and was going round in circles with this. You solved it! Give yourself a gold star!

Thanks so much for your quick reply! So basically it will vary brush to brush ie: no one definitive answer. That actually makes sense as I noticed that the default stroke weight for the particular brushes I mentioned is huge - like 89pt for some. You can see in this example when I’ve applied one of the brushes to an 11 pt stroke created with the pen tool. I’ll see what the brush makers Retro Supply come back with and will share it here.

I should also perhaps add, I'm taking these illustrations into an Affinity Publisher document.

Hi there - I'm looking for some advice on best practice document scale when using textured vector brushes or raster brushes in Affinity Designer. I've just started to use some new brushes which were recommended in Spotlight here on Affinity. https://affinityspotlight.com/article/grave-etcher-vector-engraving-brushes-by-retrosupply-co/ They are great brushes but I'm a bit stumped as to how much I should scale up to preserve crispness in the final illustration as when I zoom in, the vector brushes are not true vectors, they behave like vectors (editable) but rely on raster images for the effects. This is explained in the suppliers own FAQs here https://support.retrosupply.co/article/81-why-are-my-affinity-designer-vector-texture-brushes-pixelated-when-i-zoom-in but they give no advice on how to avoid pixilation. I've emailed them, but thought this was actually a wider issue that some of you would have come across with raster brushes etc. So for example, if my end illustration will be printed at 5" x 5" . would setting up my original document at 15" x 15" at 300dpi be sufficient to avoid pixilation or should I just experiment. Is there an idiot proof formula? I don't want to go down a rabbit hole and find out I'm back to square one at the end of the process. Thanks in advance.