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When I create a simple line drawing using the pencil tool and then export to SVG, each line is actually rendered as an outline that's filled in. This is a problem for me. I just want each stroke to be a simple stroke. Is there any way to do that? To provide some background, I'm using Affinity Designer to create images for import to a whiteboard-animation application (Sparkol's VideoScribe), which will create an animation of a hand holding a pencil drawing the image. It does that just by following the strokes in the SVG file. As it stands, that virtual hand draws the outline of each line, then the fill suddenly appears, which tells me that the SVG file actually holds outlines, not single strokes. With other SVG editors that I've used (Inkscape, Illustrator, Ink on an iPad), it just draws the line---No outline---so I know this is possible. Interestingly, when I go into outline-view mode, the lines appear to be single strokes---there's no visible outline, however that's not the way that it's stored in the SVG file. The same issues apply to text. I want each letter drawn using single strokes, not outlines, but converting to curves doesn't do that. Instead, each letter is individually outlined then filled in. So, how can I get each stroke drawn with the pencil tool (and ideally, each letter in the text) to be exported to SVG as single strokes without outlines? Thanks!