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🙂 Best of luck - and remember the frowny faces and their "vector" brush warning! ❕ 💥

Try to export just the "vector" brush curve. You will get the discrete notification message "Some areas will be rasterized" which is bad news.

I thought so. Then you can't use that brush for the moustache! It is not a real vector brush. It is pixels on a vector path. Vector brushes in AD are not real vector brushes. When you export the file to SVG or PDF the moustache will be exported as pixels: To get pure vector output from AD you now and then have to make everything by hand. In this case the moustache.

Serif did indeed change something that didn't work well with Windows 7 (installing) in the latest releases (betas or latest release) - interesting side effect though.

Are these colors black and white on the machine causing trouble? You can toggle them with the X key to paint with a black brush on a white mask and vice versa.

Unfortunately I had to search Google for clues. But you needed help I could see. I will make a feature request for a usability enhancement. Happy to help 🙂

Agreed. Opening several photos from different locations then saving them back to their original locations is my workflow, so a setting for this would help a LOT.

Hi Natalie I hope this does the trick: 1) Select the zoom tool 2) Select pixels here: 3) Return to the marquee tool and report back 🙂 Stay safe.

I just used the ellipse tool and duplicated them. Out of (old) habit I convert them to curves (control + enter) before manipulating them with boolean operators etc. I can't remember using compounds for much work. Always minimize complexity in whatever you do. Less problems, less troubleshooting, better output. YMMV though. I was asking because perhaps you used the boolean operators - subtract, divide whatever - to create the patterns. At least divide still has some bugs and the result is unwanted nodes and other problems.

OK thanks, no biggie. It is also a first world problem, really. 🙂

Lets see what @MEB has to say. I wonder how you made these objects. Did you use boolean operations and which? If I make something roughly similar in a manual and controlled workflow add works as expected: poc.afdesign

Do you need vector output @ClaireE

Agreed. Also when ALT-clicking with whatever tool to enable the colour picker tool temporarily, please show the colour picker symbol. UX deluxe.

Alright, thank you, interesting. I would never have guessed that use case fx. 🙂

Out of interest and curiosity: how often do you (all) trace bitmaps? I mostly did it by hand in my career and limited use cases. Fx you @Jesse L You use it constantly? In what context? 🙂

@BKite Could you attach an example file we can monkey around with, please ? 🙂

For posters and random graphics for social media? I would say start with Photo. Just Photo. Half of Designer is features from Photo anyway, and Designer is amazingly feature weak in the vector drawing department. I see no reason to purchase more than Photo unless you discover a reason while trying it. Photo has tons of features and some from designer are there too. The pen tool is just hidden but can be added easily to the toolbar. If you miss anything look under View -> customize tools in Photo. I recommend focusing on Photo and Designer also at least as a trial.

@ErrkaPetti You are not contributing to anything in this world with your childish responses and childish fanboy behavior. Fanaticism and love are not the same. Remember your account and posts on the Adobe forum although you are not a customer and do not use their software? And the forum rejecting you and your posts as pointless? You could learn a lot from the more mature response from @PFraterdeus No further comments. === ~~~ === And @PFraterdeus thank you for the more... realistic evaluation of my motives etc. and your own opinion. Interesting. I always found typefaces fascinating stuff and I am very impressed by how typefaces are envisioned and created by hand by their creators. The entire proces and the skills involved. A visual language of its own. Every company wants a logo but their own typeface sometimes works even better than logos and colours as a visual identity. My wife didn't really understand me when we were standing on the The Palatine hill in Rome and I asked her "Are you also thinking about a typeface?" 😀 Rub on and stay safe, @PFraterdeus ! 🙂

It is depressing. Geometry operators are exactly essential and critical in vector software. Letting customers waiting years for fixes of geometry operators tells a lot about Serif. Don't buy into the hype or marketing. Believe what you see and get. Anyway. After a mounting number of customer (!) complaints Serif did improve some of the algorithms (fx expand stroke) and released the improvements in release 1.8 a few months ago. With disastrous bugs and issues though. Kind of funny though. Their marketing of fixes of algorithms that performed as poorly as you experienced with divide like "Massive expand stroke improvements was far out! "Get incredibly accurate results with far fewer nodes than before" Yeah, incredibly they managed to get it to work after years. That is what I call city market marketing - "Get incredible motorics by not being piss drunk" ... Release 1.8.0 was almost unusable. That tells a lot about their testing efforts and hints to a rushed release. Finally in release 1.8.3 things improved. Still, we are waiting for improvements to divide and perhaps they will come in release 1.9? Perhaps not? After waiting for years it is impossible to mobilise serious optimism. Its hard to put faith in the future of Affinity Designer and Serif when the program has so few vector features - and the fundamental ones wasn't even implemented professionally. I like working in Designer a lot. But only for hobby use. I worked professionally with boolean operators in other design programs since 1996 and privately since 1990? Serif made their first vector software in 1993. It is interesting that they are still struggling with boolean operators and algorithms 27 years later.

An example 🙂

Add an "Export" toolbar button for Pete's sake, Serif.

Min fornøjelse 🙂

It does so automatically. And it will notify you every single time you open the products until you update. Even if you chose to wait (the professional approach). So you will be notified. App store and Microsoft store versions is another story I guess.

The desktop version of Designer went from 1GB to 5GB memory consumption when it calculated the file size in the export dialog, so it is safe to assume it was too much of a mouthful for a tablet to export the document. Even for a pro tablet.

Divide in Affinity Designer is next to unusable. Faulty. You experienced just that. We have been waiting for years for it to be fixed. Apparently Serifs priorities lies elsewhere. Whatever responses that will follow here from forum loyalists and whoever, the state of divide in the year of 2020 is: what you just experienced. Sometimes it works. But when it doesn't... Vector is not Affinity Designers strong point. (!)