Otto Manuel Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Hi, I am making a drawing where it would be helpful if I could somehow spray a bunch of stylized vector bubble shapes that varied in size to create the impression of foam. It would save me from copy pasting and resizing hundreds of bubbles. I am just wondering if there is a way to do this with Affinity Designer. I looked at some tutorials about custom brushes but all I can find is info about importing png files to make stroke effects. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Otto Manuel said: I am making a drawing where it would be helpful if I could somehow spray a bunch of stylized vector bubble shapes that varied in size to create the impression of foam. It would save me from copy pasting and resizing hundreds of bubbles. I am just wondering if there is a way to do this with Affinity Designer. No, there is not. Inkscape has this feature - for free. More on the topic here: Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Manuel Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 Thank you for answering the question and offering a suggestion. The nice thing is that Designer and InkScape seem to handle SVG files well, so making a round trip should work with minimal effort. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Manuel Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 Well I was wrong... I just exported a SVG from Affinity Designer and used the Spray function in InkScape to make a bunch of bubbles. I saved as a copy of the SVG file in Inkscape. The bubbles look just as I had hoped. When I open the SVG file to round trip the image back in to Affinity Designer the placement of the bubbles doesn't match what I see if I look at the same SVG file in InkScape. As a test I also opened the SVG file, that I saved with InkScape, in Google's Chrome web browser the image looks just as I would expect it too. There is something about how Designer is interpreting the SVG file that I saved with InkScape. Something is causing the elements that I created in InkScape to be placed in unexpected locations. Is there a setting I can change to make this work? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Manuel Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 OK I figured it out. When I was working in InkScape I started by Spraying copies of a bubble (a simple circular curve shape) that I had drawn in Affinity Designer, but then I had selected another bubble that had been replicated with the InkScape Spray function because it was smaller and it let me qucikly switch to a second range of scale. Although the SVG that I modified and saved in InkScape looked fine in both Chrome and Firefox web browsers, the bubbles would not display in their intended locations when I opened that SVG in Designer. I tried different settings such as InkScape's Save As "Plain SVG" and tried setting preferences for different coordinate references such as "Relative", and nothing worked, but I finally recognized that I was causing the issue by Spraying copies of an object that I had made by Spraying. To solve my issue I placed two different sized bubble instances in the project while still in Affinity Designer. I used these bubbles as reference objects when Spraying in InkScape. By doing this I was able to replicate hundreds of bubbles and get the look I had hoped for, and then I was able to return to Affinity Designer and open the SVG and save it as a .afdesign where I will continue with my drawing. It was pretty easy once I figured it out. Thank you! Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Glad you figured it out, @Otto Manuel Maybe Serif should capitulate and simply link from the toolbar directly to Inkscape, CorelDRAW... Illustrator. 😄 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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