Mockups->External Website -> What is the best file type? (MacBook)

[Aritstrybycg]

What are the best file types that can be imported into Affinity?

ex: I use a lot of mock ups from freepic like this one

https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/minimalistic-business-card-template_7065430.htm#query=mockup&position=3&from_view=search&track=sph.

Would a EPS or SVG file work better importing than PSD or Ai files?

[v_kyr]

SVG files would be the best for web based stuff, as all webbrowsers do come along with quite powerful build-in SVG engines and thus can render SVG directly in/with HTML & CSS. - Though as the majority of mockups/templates available on sites are created with Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, you have to see what file formats certain sites offer at all here. As most sites distribute mockup stuff as EPS, Ai, you then have to see and try if Affinity can parse those in without errors.

[thomaso]

9 hours ago, Aritstrybycg said:

I use a lot of mock ups

So, what was your experience? – And what are your expectations / criteria for "best"?

Do you ask for import + edit in Affinity – or for the export file type of your final work?

When editing in Affinity, you may have experienced that it's not the file format that matters, but the content type and setup, such as whether pixels or vectors, and whether the pixel resolution is sufficient for the desired export size or whether the content is accessible in a useful way.

Each of your listed file types can contain pixel & vector, none of the file types guarantees a certain content type or quality. • Especially free pics may contain a screenshot of a transparency checkerboard background which may require masking and isolating of a displayed object to get used as mockup. • Vector content can be saved as combined curves or split into many separate layers – both of which can make editing difficult and, may not make the vector content "best", entirely regardless of their file format. • Especially AI may contain content that is inaccessible for Affinity – if it got saved without a corresponding PDF it might not display its content in Affinity.

What Affinity app can you use? In APub for instance you can not edit pixel content without the AD or APh persona – but you have the option of vector masking which may be fully sufficient, depending on the content and its shapes.

Technically every of your listed file formats can contain the same "best" content, and for each of these file types the platform (mac/windows) does not matter.