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Does spand stroke work for all brushes?


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Most of the brushes used in the Affinity applications (at time of writing) are raster brushes and, as such, cannot be ‘expanded’ to vectors when you use “Expand Stroke”. In these cases, only the vector stroke itself will be expanded (if anything).

However, some can be used and expanded (e.g. in Designer, “Pens – Solid Pen with Pressure”) but it difficult for the user to know which these are just by looking at them. (I’m pretty sure I put in a feature request asking that the user was given more information in the Brushes Panel about this sort of thing.) Someone else might have some more advice on how to tell the difference.

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Only the first two brushes in the Pens category can be expanded - they do not use any raster texture.You can check this clicking the white menu icon on the right of the dropdown category and looking at the texture preview on bottom (there's none for those two cases). All the other brushes are raster based and use a texture repeated or stretched along a path. These cannot be expanded because the texture is raster data.

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