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Beautiful, Walt. Indeed that worked. Thanks so much! 🙂 Erica

Hello, I have not been able to install any version of Affinity since 1.7.2. I finally have decided to spend time to deal MSI47d7f.LOGwith this issue, and downloaded 1.8.3 and predictably, it gave me the message "Setup Failed" only a few seconds after running the installer. I've seen in other user posts about the same issue that the log file was requested doing the following "enter the following %temp% \AffinitySetup into the run box and click ok. This should open a folder, with some other folders in. Open the latest folder and there should be 2 log files, Setup.log and SetupUI.log." I did not find log files with those names, I'm attaching the one I found. Can someone help me with this issue please? Thanks, Erica

Thank you all and especially to G13RL for posting the screenshot...got it instantly! Erica

Hi, Am I missing something? I can not find a fast way to clear all guides...? Selecting them one by one and dragging them up to the ruler is very laborious... Thanks in advance.

Thank you.

These are my conclusions at this point: In order to maintain vector strokes instead of outlined shapes on export to Illustrator: Stroke panel properties must be set to: Style: basic stroke (2nd box) Cap, Join, Align: first box in each selected seems safest (no mitre in Join at any rate) Properties: Pressure Box completely filled (reset if necessary) Strokes can not be or have been transparent Strokes can not be or have been clipped within other shapes Export to eps seems to maintains fidelity to stroke width (svg does not) 72 dpi to maintain same size

I've done some further experimenting, and from what I've been able to best determine, it appears that strokes that have transparency or are clipped within a layer (or even that have been at a previous point) will appear as outlined shapes rather than vector lines when opened in Illustrator. It doesn't appear to be enough to simply to modify them, i.e. unclip them or make them opaque to get them to convert as vectors, it appears they have to be redrawn in order to convert as vectors. In my opinion, there are so many conditions that have to be adhered to and it's so problematic in a file of any complexity to get vectors rather than outlines on conversion to Illustrator, any claims that Affinity Designer is compatible with Illustrator are rather premature. Although I think this is a great, inexpensive product in some ways and applaud the efforts of the development team with regard to some of the program's features; with regard to Illustrator compatibility, I am extremely disappointed. I am having now to spend hours to rework many hours of work done, and I had picked AD precisely for the reason that it was supposedly Illustrator compatible.

Hi Lagarto, Thanks so much. I did not reset the curve properties as you describe (as that didn't seem to do anything?) but rather duplicated the Cap, Join, Align settings for the stroke as you set them in the Stroke panel, and I was able to confirm your result: that on export to AI that resolves the problem with the circle, but not with the other strokes. These curves were drawn directly in Designer, to answer your question. I've attached a visual summary of your partial debug to hopefully help this along. This is tremendously frustrating; it's a dealbreaker for me actually. Another further thoughts on what the problem could be here? Thanks so much for your help Lagarto... Erica

Hi there, I've simplified the file and attached one artboard with a few line so that it's not so overwhelming. Even simplified, I still get an outline with a center stroke, no matter if I export to eps or svg, on opening in Illustrator. Thank you so much for taking a look, Erica exporttestfile.afdesign

Hello, I am trying to export an Affinity Designer file to AI and all the lines are converted to shapes with a center line, instead of maintaining the vector strokes. I've "Selected All" in the AD file and applied the following attributes: 1) double clicked the properties button on the stroke panel and set it to "None" 2) stroke align is set to center 3) miter is set to 1 4) Stroke style is set to Solid Line Style. I am exporting to eps (and tried pdf and svg) as well, nothing works. I'm on Windows 10 using 1.7.1.404 (I realize that's not the latest version but when I try to update it fails -- but that's a separate issue and shouldn't affect this.) Image of my settings is attached below. This is really disheartening. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Erica

Hi, I've done a few drawings rapidly experimenting with different size strokes (brushes), and now I've decided on one that I like best. It seems like I should be able to select the brush stroke with the attributes I like with the selection tool, and save it to a brush library for future use. Does this functionality not exist? Or what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help, Erica

It seems as though there are use cases for both types of users, those of us who need it the same setting always and would be better served by a preferences check box, and those such as the user above for whom the current implementation works better. Like those of us who love a good marshmelllow, and those who can't stand it. In my case, this is a tremendous timesuck and source of frustrating errors, and just like a spongy, tasteless marshmellow, I can't stand it. Could not a feature be implemented that allows one to have it set always for some of us, and on a case by case basis for the others? This seems as though it would accommodate all of us and serve the user base as a whole better, contribute to global peace and understanding, and make the world just an eensy bit better place to live.

Oh...that is disappointing. But neither do I have the ¨Reset Fonts¨ option, although possibly not a fix, available to me....?

Hi guys, thanks for the answers....yes Alfred, I have a problem with fonts updating. I'm running Affinity Designer 1.6.5.135 (which I believe is the latest?) on Windows 10. If I open Affinity Designer 1st and my font manager afterwards (Fontbase) the fonts do not update...which is why I was searching around (even in very old threads) related to this issue. My Preferences>Miscellaneous menu is missing the Reset Fonts option which RCR says may not be the answer anyway; ideally I would not have to manually do anything; they would just update automatically. I do get the "updating Font Cache" notification, but my fonts in my file stay in whatever the generic font is that AD substitutes when it can't find the font. Any thoughts why fonts are not updating for me? Thanks in advance.... Erica

Also an issue for me and slows down my workflow. Affinity, could this be added as an issue to somehow fix?

This option does not exist...? And this contradicts another thread answered by MEB that this option doesn't exist...? If it doesn't exist, it seems to be a very badly needed addition.

Hi, The ability to add a new layer below the current layer has been requested by many users, but it is not in the roadmap. The use of Affinity's products depends on being able to work fast and whether they have time-saving shortcuts and features; if it's faster to work in other software, then people will move to other software programs. Could this request by multiple users be included in the roadmap? Thanks.

Hi, One feature that I use constantly in other software is the ability to rotate part of an object. Say for example I have a character with his arm at his side and I want to show him pointing at something. In Illustrator, I select only the part of his body that is his arm and I rotate it upward and adjust the points in the shoulder as needed. This is an example where perhaps one could construct the arm separately to get around this, but this is only one example, the ability to rotate part of an object is necessary in many circumstances where the object can not be built in separate pieces as a workaround. Is there any way to do this, and if not, could it be added as a feature request? Thanks, Erica

Thank you Toltec. That was brilliant. Working in Outline view was a good tip; it is indeed easier and I was able to locate where to fill in the shortcut for Insert Inside (although it would be great if I could see all the keyboard shortcuts listed in one list or if it were searcheable.) Thanks tons.

Thank you. For some reason I am finding it harder to select and manipulate lines within groups than I do within Adobe Illustrator, but maybe that's just because I am a newbie...not sure.

Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut to create a sublayer in Affinity Designer? I find it necessary to nest layers in order to keep them organized and I find it's a lot of unnecessary time to have to go over to the layers panel and drag a layer within another layer. At first I tried grouping layers, as there is a keyboard shortcut for that, but its tremendously hard to select lines within groups layers in this program. So, is there a fast efficient way to create sublayers to organize layers? Thanks, Erica

I am familiar with Bezier curves and how to edit them; this doesn't apply. I am asking about how to pick up and continue a previously drawn line with the vector brush tool.

Hi, Is it possible to continue a previously drawn vector brush curve in Affinity Designer? If I start a curve using the vector brush tool and lift my pen off my screen, and later want to continue the same curve, I am unable to do so. I know that with the Pen tool you can Cntrl click the curve to continue it, but this appears not to work with the vector brush. How does one do this? Thanks in advance!

thank you!

Hi, I'm confused about why a curve shows to different line widths depending which tool is selected. I am using a custom vector brush, whose width I have set to a 100px. If I switch to the node tool or move tool, the width of the stroke changes to 24px. Why don't all tools display the same width for the same curve? I can imagine this would get confusing when deciding to edit the width of an existing stroke -- not sure whether to edit it in the vector brush properties menu or the context menu for node or move tool...? Why would the same stroke show having different widths, depending on which tool you are in? Any helpful explanation would be much appreciated, as well as where one should change the width so as not to have problems or for easiest/best workflow. Thanks, Erica