Texurred iuntensity brush vectors become very big after export, why? Bug?

[Johnny Chin]

Hey guys, I need some different style of arrowhead vector line and even the new arrowhead feature, I don't find the style I want so I created some with the textured intensity brush.

The line width I need is 1pt, but for every custom textured intensity brush I made, I find that they all need to adjust to a very bigger size to match a 1pt line, why?

Then I try to export them as a pdf document, turn out, they become rasterised, I assume they are considered as "unsupported properties" so I change the rasterise to "nothing" in the pdf export option, but they become very big in size after export. So I try to change them to 1pt and then export with rasterise set to nothing, the result is that match the 1pt size but then the arrowhead is gone.

So what should I do?

 

Example:

The custom textured intensity brush I made with the following setting:

 

I set it to 20.8pt(in brush setting it is 85.5px) to match the 1pt line made with pen tool

 

Output pdf result with rasterise option set to "unsupported properties", the arrowhead is there and line is same width as pen tool's 1pt but it's pixelated

 

Output pdf result with rasterise option set to "nothing", nothing pixelated but then it become very thick and the arrowhead is gone

 

Set to 1pt

Output pdf result with rasterise option set to "nothing", it looks ok and nothing pixelated but the arrowhead is gone

[firstdefence]

The trouble is you are using a raster image (PNG) to create a "Vector" brush so it's going to be rasterised no matter what you do. These are not true vectors but raster images on a vector curve/path. Mapping a raster image to a vector curve gives a few advantages in so much as you can bend and stretch the raster image but it is still a raster image regardless of it's attachment to a vector curve, and that is where it all falls apart.

Affinity need to sort this out very quickly or stop calling it a vector brush.