Pixelated Text

[Brenton]

I am using Affinity Designer and I am trying to export this label to a PNG and PDF, but every time I do, both the vector image on the "Hidden Hollow" logo, and text the "Comfrey Salve" gets pixelated. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Comfrey Label.afdesign

[firstdefence]

In both cases rasterisation occurs because you have used FX

[Komatös]

And you have applied the outer shadow to the group layer. If you set the fx for each curve layer separate, only the fx would be rasterized.

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, Brenton said:

both the vector image on the "Hidden Hollow" logo, and text the "Comfrey Salve" gets pixelated.

That will always happen if you export to PNG because PNG is a raster image format.

[Brenton]

Thank you so much to those that are helping for your time and you advice! Attached is a PDF with the text layers converted to curves, an FX on each individual layer instead of the group. Is there a way to keep the text "Comfrey Salve" from getting as pixelated? Maybe a setting I can change when exporting- or is it just because it's getting rasterized upon export?test.pdf

[GarryP]

As mentioned above, every layer (or group) which has FX applied to it will be rasterised, there’s no way to stop that.
However, you could duplicate the layer, apply the FX to the ‘underneath-duplicate’ and the original layer will not be rasterised.
(You may also want to set the Fill Opacity - in the Effects Panel - of the duplicate to 0% to but this may introduce other problems in certain cases.)

[Brenton]

The text has been converted to curves, but even I export to SVG file, the "Comfrey Salve" is still pixelated. not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thank you for any and all help.Comfrey Label.svg

[R C-R]

5 minutes ago, Brenton said:

The text has been converted to curves, but even I export to SVG file, the "Comfrey Salve" is still pixelated. not sure what I'm doing wrong. 

It is the Group FX Layer that is pixelated, not the Layer above it with the text converted to curves. I assume this is because in the original Comfrey Label.afdesign file you uploaded you included an Outer Shadow & an Outline effect to the Comfrey¶Salve text layer.

If you remove the fx from both that & the HH logo group layer in the original afdesign file, nothing will be pixelated on export to SVG.

Obviously, if you do that you will have to find another way to simulate those effects using only text or vector curve objects.