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Hello,
I have been using Affinity products on and off over the past couple of years, and each time I open it I get the urge to disconnect from Adobe - and then there is something that always comes up to remind me why I can't do that as of yet. 

The most recent reason is the inability to open files created in Illustrator when those files use gradients or mesh gradients. I have a client that has gradients and gradient mesh areas in their logo. When I open the logo in Illustrator (where it was created) the image is fine. But when I open it in Affinity Designer, the gradient mesh area displays filled with just white. 

When I open an eps file from iStock, it's also always a question of if it will open correctly. Recently, I was doing a flyer and found a nice vector image on iStock that had some overlapping circular gradients on top of a gradient background. When I open it in Illustrator, it's clean, but when I open it in AD, the circular gradients have a white outline that doesn't seem to be something I can disable (no stroke).

This same behavior with gradients (on both of these files mentioned above) also is present in Affinity Photo.

Any ideas on how I can make this work?

Thanks,
Robb

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Hi robbrich,

Affinity Designer doesn't currently support Gradient Mesh which will be why they don't load correctly in Affinity.  Once we get our own Gradient Mesh tool i would expect this to improve greatly.

As for EPS files from stock websites, this is a common issue and as explained here is down to the EPS file also containing an AI file, we which can't read.

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