PDF Export of dotted line different

[nemoDreamer]

I'm encountering a similar issue (in v2) where printing and PDF / SVG exports don't respect the "Balanced Dash Pattern".

Quite jarring coming from Adobe InDesign / Illlustrator, where what you see is what you get: the PDF export internally explodes shapes to ensure a 1-to-1 conversion if PDF doesn't support a given vector feature like special dotted strokes w/ corner constraints.

I hope the solution in Affinity isn't "Rasterize" or "Expand Stroke": I'd like a PDF with vectors, and an Affinity file I can still sensibly work with, rather than individual bits of lines. 😭

(Sorry for my tone, I've been trying so many different things...)

My settings:

My Designer view:

My straight-to-printer output / PDF / SVG export:

Overlapping curves' lines no longer match up, since they do not respect the dashed settings.

[Hangman]

Hi @nemoDreamer and welcome to the forums,

This looks like a bug...

• Balanced strokes up to and including 2.5 pt are being exported as unbalanced strokes
• Balanced strokes above 2.5 pt are being exported as expanded strokes

My understanding is that all balanced strokes should be exported as expanded strokes on export to PDF.

[MEB]

Hi @nemoDreamer,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thanks for your feedback. This is a known issue that's already logged with dev. I've updated/bumped the report to bring it up to devs attention again.

[Hietaharju]

On 3/14/2024 at 8:01 PM, MEB said:

Hi @nemoDreamer,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thanks for your feedback. This is a known issue that's already logged with dev. I've updated/bumped the report to bring it up to devs attention again.

Any updates in this matter? I was so happy that balanced corners now work but since it does not work as svg I am forced to use our old software.
My lines are just 0.3 PT but I have tried different sizes and all above 2.5 PT works just fine.
But it works great if exported as PNG for me only SVG is causing problems. However it works if I export as flattened SVG but I need the layers so that is not a option for me.
Hope this will be fixed.

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, Hietaharju said:

Any updates in this matter?

The topic tag AF-2396 has been added to this thread, indicating that the issue has been added to Serif’s internal issue tracker for the Affinity project. A tag search brings up related threads such as this one that you may find helpful: