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2 hours ago, Designer1 said:

I hope the Affinity staff read the forum

They do read the Feedback forums, but generally will not comment here.

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I did my own testing using Designer, CorelDraw 2020, Illustrator and Sketch, all on macOS. If I really had to nitpick at something, I'd say that the Illustrator export is the jaggiest one. Sketch the best one.

I think the forum software resamples the images, but here they are:

Corel:

corel.png.6b7c0cb1705e191e9fc73af944d6a91d.png

Designer:

designer.png.1aec6ae1db5155538f3889efd19427c3.png

Illustrator:

illustrator.png.5645712a071d7845c2a7e2cf8a143106.png

Sketch:

sketch.png.c5481f7c224ef5ac76af74b75af0f56f.png

 

 

 

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52 minutes ago, tudor said:

I did my own testing using Designer, CorelDraw 2020, Illustrator and Sketch, all on macOS. If I really had to nitpick at something, I'd say that the Illustrator export is the jaggiest one. Sketch the best one.

I think the forum software resamples the images, but here they are:

Corel:

corel.png.6b7c0cb1705e191e9fc73af944d6a91d.png

Designer:

designer.png.1aec6ae1db5155538f3889efd19427c3.png

Illustrator:

illustrator.png.5645712a071d7845c2a7e2cf8a143106.png

Sketch:

sketch.png.c5481f7c224ef5ac76af74b75af0f56f.png

 

 

 

In Affinity Designer you can see the most unsmooth contour at c. The smoothing in the inside of the letters is the worst in Affinity Designer. I have Windows 10 and the results under Windows are even more disappointing.

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46 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

In Affinity Designer you can see the most unsmooth contour at c. The smoothing in the inside of the letters is the worst in Affinity Designer.

Each of those apps seems to have its own antialiasing algorithm, with tiny little differences between them that no ordinary human will notice or care about.

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On 3/9/2021 at 9:03 AM, tudor said:

The shape segment inside the red circle could definitely be smoother.

True.

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