Working with Non-Affininty Clients
Hi All. I'm a illustrator and surface pattern designer and I have been using Affinity software for about 6 months. I have to say that making patterns in Affinity is a joy and I've made lots. For me, Affinity takes the focus off the software (and how to pay the subscription) and back onto design and colours. However! .... as much as I can make out, Affinity cannot export complex vectors suitable for seamless use in illustrator. I am more than sure that if the Affinity team could , they would
Ok so I am excited to find (after joining the dots on good advice/comments from lots of different sites) a fairly painless workflow to get my finished pattern repeats into illustrator using SVG.
Basically, it all becomes much easier when you use minimal groupings in Affinity, ensure icons are merged to their smallest components and then use “place” to put the repeat file into a new Illustrator document rather than opening the svg file straight into Illustrator. It comes in with a clippi
