G.V. Hartman

I'm also having this issue, both before and after updating to 1.7.0. Before updating I was having trouble exporting slices at all, but now I'm at least able to do it with iCloud Drive and (although it takes a long time to show up) Google Drive, which is a big help.

Gotcha. If Affinity Designer or Autodesk Graphic had the Width tool, I wouldn't need to export to SVG at all. I need that tool!

Okay. After a little bit of research, I think I found what I am really needing here. The Width tool in Illustrator does exactly what I needed and cuts out a lot of steps. It allows me to change the line width directly along the path, preserving the paths. I don't have to worry about: making multiple lines with their own pressure profiles and then trying to combine them into something I can add a fill to while keeping the line widths intact. (I'm not even sure that's possible.) that teeny tiny little pressure graph that doesn't even have enough room to add the kind of detail I want to a complicated path, and will get knocked off kilter if I modify the path anyway. It drives me nuts that I've essentially been trying to simulate this tool through workarounds when it already exists. Doing this all the time would drive me insane, especially because connecting those lines to fill them would just mess everything up. I'm also pretty sure a Width tool feature isn't currently anywhere to be found on iPad vector apps, which makes me really sad. Being able to do what the Width tool does was one of the reasons I wanted to get into vector art in the first place. The lack of access to it is a painful dealbreaker for the workflow I've been hoping for... so I guess I have a feature request for both Graphic and Affinity! (both the desktop version and the hopefully-soon-to-come iPad version!)

See attached files. Sorry in advance if my lingo is off. I'm still on the steep part of the learning curve! In the .idraw file, see how there's a path running down the middle of each line, like a backbone, so you can easily change the shape and pressure curve of the strokes? In the SVG, that path backbone is gone. Each stroke appears to have been outlined with a path instead. If you go into Outline Mode on both, you can see that this is in fact what has happened. I don't want that. I need the backbone. To give you a bigger picture of my goals, the following is what I'm trying to accomplish with this. (I do have more questions about the below, but the above is the first step - I work primarily on my iPad, and since Affinity Designer is not on the iPad yet, importing is my only shot at accessing Designer's features.) I want to: 1) Take multiple different paths, each with their own unique pressure curves. 2) Assemble them into the outline of a shape, joining them together (maybe at their endpoints, maybe not) in a way that doesn't screw up each individual path's pressure curve. 3) Fill the resulting shape with color. 4) Be able to edit the individual paths and each one's pressure curve later. Bell - just lines.idraw Bell - just lines.svg

I'm about to pull my hair out. I just dropped a sizable chunk of change on this program only to have trouble doing the thing I need most: import vectors I drew on my iPad (in Autodesk Graphic) into a program that has the Combine Shapes feature. I've been exporting in both SVG and PDF format from Autodesk Graphic, and when I open it in Affinity, it's just a shape. If it's not possible to save paths in one program and open them in another, I'm probably going to put a hole through the nearest wall. PLEASE tell me this is somehow possible.