Export of vector image give warning "some areas will be rasterised"

[Mr Lucky]

I have created a vector design and it exports to SVG fine until I add a vector brush (light stippling). This causes the message "some areas will be rasterised." It should not be restoring vectors.

[walt.farrell]

Vector brushes in Affinity Designer are not fully vector. They are raster images stretched along a vector path, except for the basic brushes.

[Mr Lucky]

I wonder why they are called Vector brushes then? Is there a vector brush somewhere that really is a vector brush?

[GarryP]

I think it’s because they use rasters that are drawn along a vector, rather than being ‘hand-drawn’.

In a similar way, the Vector Crop Tool in designer doesn’t just crop vectors.

I think some of the Basic brushes are wholly-vector.

Note: Use of Adjustments and/or Blend Modes may also cause a wholly-vector design to be rasterised.

[walt.farrell]

I think that all of the brushes in the Basic brush category of the Designer Persona were true vector, but that category is no longer distributed with Designer any more. Some of its brushes are still supplied, but I've lost track of which brush categories they're in now.

Solid Pen with Pressure in Pens is one, I think.

I don't know where the solid round brushes went, assuming they're still supplied.

 

[GarryP]

I can’t see the ‘Basic’ brush category in the Designer Persona of Designer in either V2 or V1. Did I imagine it?

I think the only ‘truly-vector’ brushes in V2 are the two Solid Pen brushes in the Pens category – if you edit them there’s no bitmap shown at the bottom of the dialog.

[Hangman]

Here are the Basic Brushes which can be imported into Designer and Linked across apps...

Basic.afbrushes

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, GarryP said:

I can’t see the ‘Basic’ brush category in the Designer Persona of Designer in either V2 or V1. Did I imagine it?

It was removed in 1.8. You can get them from Affinity Spotlight: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/get-legacy-affinity-brushes/

 

[GarryP]

Ah, that’s why I’m not seeing it in 1.10.6.

At least it’s not my memory that’s at fault this time, apart from not remembering that the category was removed.