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The file was a bit of a mess, the lions mane needs work as there are some errors with the nodes, you have to zoom in quite a way approx 1500% there are approx 8 glitches that will prevent being able to fill the mane area. Is this what you are trying to achieve? No Crashes for me either, had to drop into Affinity Designer to sort a few glitches out. lions test forum - amended.afpub

I think the problem will be all the gradient meshes. Affinity can't handle them because Affinity doesn't have gradient meshes. I've exported the problem file that won't load in Affinity to various formats including Ai, SVG, PDF etc and they all come out wrong when opened in Affinity Designer. From Affinity Designer opened as a PDF.

< I can open the EPS files, it takes a while because there are a shed load of layers but the EPS file doesn't open like it should and looks very different to opening in Illustrator. From Affinity Designer: ISS_33448_01128_1 From Illustrator - Layer panel : From Illustrator: ISS_33448_01128_1

Yes any space that is not the Hard drive of the computer can increase the chance of file corruption. Like you said it shouldn't happen but it does. It's always prudent to be mindful of this and while it makes for an inconvenience I'd rather have the inconvenience than a corrupt file, in utopia I'd rather file saving work anywhere but I think I may be asking too much.

Looks like you are in separated mode, on the top menu under Windows there should be an option to check separated mode, unchecking it consolidates the GUI.

Welcome to the forum @darmabum Might have to get a mod to take a look at it. It's better to save locally and add to iCloud, i know it should work with online spaces but for some reason Affinity struggles with online/network spaces, there are quite a few posts about files being corrupted due to using network and cloud drives and the like.

Are you on Mac and using Apple Core Image RAW, if so change over to Serif RAW.

Welcome to the forum @Rita Wong Sometimes EPS files can take a while to load, They shouldn't but some do. Can you add the EPS file to the next post for us to look at?

Any chance we can take a look at the affinity file?

Was curious about the image, I'm erring on the side that this is actually a painting, it's of a quite famous house called Stahl House in California and seems to have been a very popular study for artists, photographers and illustrators alike. https://www.beasarrias.com/work/2021/6/7/pools https://search.brave.com/images?q=Stahl House

Which app? Take a look in the Character Panel and also the Paragraph panel, check all the settings there, under typography is Ordinals active?

Thought I'd note the px thing in case it's a bug and it could be a clue to solving it. But agree, could simply be gremlins in the system.

Also consider using First Aid from Disk Utility to sort out any migration bugs like permissions etc

If you change the units to px you can edit the stroke, anything else you get the slider to the right issue.

If you try to export it to another file type does the preview show these corruptions?

I think best option is to make a duplicate of whichever brush you are using and save it with your required settings. Right-click on a brush and selecting Duplicate Brush Right-click on the duplicate and select Edit Brush Edit the brush settings to your liking. That should give you what you need. But... The post title doesn't relate to the posted questions!! or visa versa?

If you zoom in it's definitely an illustration... ...and nicely done, love the reflections on the glass. There is more work than meets the eye. Could be done in either app.

Welcome to the forum @MagerQuarkgainz Are you taking about the look of the image or the actual rendering of the model, I'm assuming this is a rendered 3D model. If it's the look you can use LUTs to get a style of look.

You need to find an eps that will work and compare the code, so I exported a simple EPS which was a Circle with 200mm diameter, fill 100% Magenta, Stroke was 0.05mm 100% Black, this is Affinity Designers EPS code for that file. To get the code simply open an EPS in TextEdit on Mac, probably similar on Windows. %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 1296 1656 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 1296 1656 %%Creator: Serif Affinity %LanguageLevel: 3 %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit %%EndComments %%BeginProlog 101 dict begin /m/moveto /l/lineto /c/curveto 3{load def}repeat %%EndProlog gsave % Artboard1 % Ellipse newpath 642.444 1117.021 m 798.892 1117.021 925.908 990.005 925.908 833.556 c 925.908 677.108 798.892 550.092 642.444 550.092 c 485.995 550.092 358.979 677.108 358.979 833.556 c 358.979 990.005 485.995 1117.021 642.444 1117.021 c closepath /DeviceRGB setcolorspace 0.926 0 0.548 setcolor gsave eofill grestore /DeviceRGB setcolorspace 0.136 0.121 0.124 setcolor 0.142 setlinewidth 1 setlinecap 1 setlinejoin [] 0 setdash stroke grestore showpage end

This website has a snippet of interesting info re EPS: https://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/eps see quoted info below.

The initial load screen is nicer and now supports drag and drop. Workspace is simple and neat with most things on a right click context menu. Also feels quicker.

Have you made sure there is nothing overlapping in that area?

Lets try it, If it doesn't scale whatever is on the page it might be a goer. Update: It doesn't appear to work, maybe I'm doing something wrong, regardless of the anchor point selected it always appears to maintain the margins top and left so the content appears to be pushed down. I installed Briss via Terminal and used home brew: {Brew install Briss}, then again in terminal simply typed Briss at the Prompt to start the GUI and load a PDF in to get a sense of what it did. So Briss GUI loads It automatically selects a close crop and then you export to a cropped PDF. This is the original document margins

Are the AF files associated with their respective programs? and does the quicklook work i.e. click on the file and press space to get a preview before opening with Preview?

What about an option to select a language for something akin to a mouseover tooltip.