kirk23 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 I recall I did it with a text along a path approach. But honestly it was an absolute torture to work that way. Have anyone found a better workaround? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 14, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2023 Hi @kirk23, Our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here. As far as I'm aware, the best option for this is still using the Text on a Path workflow - however this is logged as an improvement request with our developers and therefore I will be sure to add your 'vote' to this request for you now. I hope this helps! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Alternatively you can create image brushes from the bitmap files. Don’t forget to add some free space at the sides, it is easy to crop off in brush settings, but you can’t add later. loukash 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Depends which app you are in or should I say which persona in which app you are in. To scatter bitmap symbols or any raster graphic in a brush you will need to use the Pixel Persona and raster brushes in Affinity Designer, else use Affinity Photo's Photo Persona and raster brushes. The raster brushes have a dynamics tab and you can set X and Y scatter there, as well as rotation etc, you can also add sub brushes so brushes within brushes. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 As the thread title is asking for bitmaps along a vector path, I wouldn’t consider pixel persona as suitable Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 14 hours ago, firstdefence said: else use Affinity Photo's Photo Persona and raster brushes No, I absolutely don't want to use Photo for this . I just need a tool that can scatter both vector or raster objects along a vector spline , randomly or in certain order. And still be ABLE to replace the objects , use symbols , re-link bitmaps. If I want . Not immediately rasterize it in document resolution as what Photo would do most probably. Like what Xara or old good Creation house Expresion could do decades ago So bitmap nozzle brush is not ok and text tool is such a pain in your a.. for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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