Affinity Designer vector round shapes edges are jagged, how to make them smooth?

[LogoLogics]

Hi,

I notice that, unlike straight lines, that are crispy clean, when I have vector created round objects, their edges are jagged, which does not look professional. When I make the line thicker, it is better, but still not as sharp as straight lines, see my screenshot
Can anyone help and tell me how to make them smooth and crispy, please?

Thanks,
Annie

[Old Bruce]

Keep everything as vectors. If you are exporting to a Pixel file format then you will have the Pixel grid making a "staircase". There is no way around this. And it is not just 'round' objects. Straight lines on a 45° angle will show it too.

[LogoLogics]

Hi Old Bruce,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Everything was and is vector, and I can confirm that this is also happening in Adobe Illustrator.
Thing is that, we are told that vector properties stay super sharp, and I wondered if there is some trick that could smooth those edges.

When a client looks at the vector PDF, and it is not really smooth, they might think it is not done well.

I know that after they are professionally printed, they are sharp, but I guess the files that are needed for websites etc., best be taken care of in Affinity Photo?
It can be smoothened in Photoshop and I assume in Affinity Photo as well, with Gaussian blur, but not in Designer and Illustrator.

Thanks,
Annie

[v_kyr]

3 hours ago, LogoLogics said:

Thing is that, we are told that vector properties stay super sharp, and I wondered if there is some trick that could smooth those edges.

The keyword is antialiasing here, see also related: 

• Layer blend ranges (see especially there antialising down on the online help page and the settings).

[LogoLogics]

Hi v_kyr,

Thanks for the links, I will look into that.
So, this is something that can be used to sharpen jagged edges even in Affinity Designer, right?

As the link you provide is in the designer help:

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/layerBlendRanges.html?title=Layer blend ranges

Annie