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This is starting to really annoy me (and clearly so many other people). Every day I have to work with software that randomly doesn't register key presses to change between tools, trying to delete a layer with the delete key doesn't work despite the delete key being assigned to that function, other times it only works when the Move tool is selected (this can't be normal behaviour?) and the worst bug to date is the incomplete brush stroke when using pressure with a tablet as in the attached media. It's not a graphics card issue, by that I mean I have a specced out machine that handles 4k video editing without a problem. The issue in the video is only present in Designer persona. The raster brush works perfectly with pen pressure in Pixel Persona. What is going on? Thanks in advance to anybody who can throw some light on these issues. Untitled.mov

I am switching from Illustrator to Designer and so far have really not found anything I'll feel sorry about (in fact I'm loving AD) except one, small, maybe microscopic, but to me important detail: the way Designer closes strokes when I use my Wacom with pressure. For some reason, if I end strokes with heavier pressure, they will end in strange ‘crumpled’ ways. Which then needs to be addressed by playing around with the last node and with the pressure graph. Stroke and pressure fidelity are good in AD, but in my opinion this 'end' glitch does get in the way.

Shown in this video is an anomaly that has happened quite frequently when I attempt to move the ends of Vector Paint brushes. Only thing to add is that they are my own created vector brushes. Moving them often leaves marks and the only way in which I have been abe to clear the marks is by selecting all affcetd nodes and clicking on the ""Convert to Smooth"" Paint Brush.mp4

Pressure sensitivity enabled on a vector paintbrush makes a mess if you hold or stop at either end of a stroke. The smoother paints on the attached screenshot only appear from smooth brush movement. Trying some dots will give you the best way to see the problem -- as the very ragged/jagged dots on the pic. Or just stop a brush movement as or before you lift it. Either way, you can watch Design try to build a cap, and fail to do it nicely, as it also has on the ragged-ended lines where I stopped the brush or held it at starting. Turning off pressure sensitivity gives nice round caps. I had about 80% width control set on the pressure controller. The controller for vector paint brush is always reset to 'off'. Seems it should hold your current setting between tool selections -- and also when re-opening a drawing. The same stability/memory is needed for the size of the brush: setting several other things will revert it to 16px size. There are funny interactions (changed brush size, etc.) if you open the end caps tab and try to make adjustments -- only brush should work with brushed strokes. And if you set to brush, it doesn't change to a brush from a line tool, also. Apologies for the stark look of the screenshot -- I took out opacity sensitivity to assure the simplest example, and same reason didn’t work in pleasant colors. All the results are with the very latest Wacom driver, and my Intuos 4 tablet. 1.7 gives much the same results, while Illustrator CS6 gives nice and smooth variable strokes with the same level of pressure sensitivity.

Bringing this back into view, updated for latest as commented here:

Strange artifacts appear on curves having stroke's width varying by pressure

Hi, I tried the beta in the hopes that there were no longer any vector brush artefacts at line start/end when using Apple pencil but the issue is still there. This renders the app unusable for us when sketching with vectors, which is why our studio is looking to switch to it. Below are links to the where the issue has been mentioned in older versions that have more detail. Hopefully this can be resolved soon, would love to be able to use the app for this! https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/62744-vector-brushpencil-ending-with-stroke/

When i use brush with presure sensitivity, the brush make a weird line and make chopy shape i dunno my device not compitable or what (my devices is ipad 6 2018) i need brush for making font, any one have the same issue's here? help me to solve this D18B7D97-D185-422C-8E05-374BC510AC19.MP4 A815AFBA-86AA-4735-A17B-FFC3527004A0.MP4

Three problems with strokes. Here is a sample file. sample.afdesign Stroke to a curve with pressure. 1. Stroke is rendered with some kind of jitter. This happens very often to strokes with pressure. 2. If you apply Layer > Expand Stroke, round edges get sharp points. This happens even without pressure. 3. Again, Layer > Expand Stroke is very inaccurate. Blue: Original Red: Expanded stroke While an offset of a bezier curve cannot always be exactly converted to another bezier curve, Affinity Designer's accuracy is very poor compared to Adobe Illustrator's.

Hi, I'm new here and I unfortunately haven't found an answer to my question in this forum. For a recent project I tried to use pressure sensitivity in AD for ipad - choosing vector brushes first. I switched from a texturized brush (which I had troubles to export - black squares - image 1) to a more clean vector brush. This seemed to be fine at first, but when I zoomed in I realized it was flawed too (image 2). Same with the vector pencil, using pressure sensitivity (image 3). When I was using the vector pencil without pressure sensitivity for past projects, I never had PDF/EPS export problems. What am I doing wrong? (Btw: The final image will be printed on a large wall, so it's necessary to get all the details right.)