Export: Pixelmess?

[seltsam]

Hi there,

 

great product so far, makes masking a LOT easier!

 

But... when exporting images into .pdf, oder .svg AD can't seem to export all paths correctly.

Looks like it is at some points just using pixel-assets within the picture.

 

Here are some pictures to illustrate my problem:

 

 

Is there a way to get this right? Or will this be fixed soon?

Because this is just horrible for handing an artwork to a client.

 

Thanks

 

 

[TonyB]

Can you post the file please as It's much easier to find out what is happening.

[seltsam]

Here, 

 

try to export this file into .svg.

Then zoom in to see all the pixels.

 

pixel-example.afdesign

[TonyB]

Thanks for the file. The line with pressure is unfortunate as we were working on this just before release. I will post back to this thread when we have a beta to share that improves the output.

[seltsam]

Ok, thanks. Adding to the pressure-Problem the bottom circle with color-burn is ignored completely.

This really makes it impossible right now to hand the work over to a client, no suited for professional work!

How long will it take to fix this?

[TonyB]

There are a few issues here and some of them to do with the capabilities of SVG. Can I ask how your client intends to use the SVG output? Are you using SVG as they hope to open and use it in another program or is it intended for the web. If it's the web then different browsers support different parts of the SVG spec so things like colour-burn might not work. 

 

Some of your issues are bugs and limitations in Affinity. Some of the issues is to do with us not explaining the output you are likely to create.

 

I hope I can give you more information when I know more.

[seltsam]

Just tried the new Update. Still not fixed??

How can you sell this?

 

"We have this new totally cool vector tool for you!" - Yeah, Except it's not!

[MEB]

Hi seltsam,

The export formats in Affinity Designer are being continuously improved. The latest beta has fixed some of the problems. If you are still having trouble, it would help if you could post the problematic file here or send it to support@seriflabs.com so the problem can be fixed.

[Andy Somerfield]

You have a Colour Burn on one of your layers (as you have pointed out).

 

SVG does not support blend modes for vector primitives - never has..

 

We rasterised the primitive in order to make the primitive render correctly under SVG, at your specified device resolution - otherwise you would have got a totally different kind of "mess" - which would have looked even worse.

 

I think the answer here is to warn the user, at export time, that aspects of their design will be rasterised, and tell them why..

 

A

[seltsam]

Hi Andy,

 

sure, thats just one thing - but thats not really surprising me since illustrator has the same results with blend modes.

Good approach to inform the user while exporting!

 

The real problem is, that pencil-strokes are not vectorized (as demonstrated in my example-file).

This is what really bugs me, this is the very core competence I expect a vector-tool to have.

[Andy Somerfield]

I just tried your file in the latest free beta, and it seems to export fine - I think this is something we have already fixed but not sent out through the App Store yet.

 

You can try the beta if you would like - it's available in the new Beta section of the forum.

 

Thanks,

 

AndyS

[Andy Somerfield]

Hi again,

 

We've also just fixed the issue where pressure was being discarded on export - expect this in the next beta we release (very soon ;))

 

AndyS