Mr Lucky Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Vector brushes in Affinity Designer are not fully vector. They are raster images stretched along a vector path, except for the basic brushes. Callum 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 I wonder why they are called Vector brushes then? Is there a vector brush somewhere that really is a vector brush? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Here are the Basic Brushes which can be imported into Designer and Linked across apps... Basic.afbrushes Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 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/ Ldina and GarryP 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 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. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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