Vectors converted to Raster on Export

[lilo-san]

Windows 11

Affinity Designer 2.5.3

 

I have tried to export as SVG and PDF taking care to check in to not rasterize anything but curves still get rasterized. See the png image attached.

 

Find attached the designer file, selected export options and output file.

 

It will be very appreciated if a workaround is provided until this is fixed.

example-output-file.svg example-input-file.afdesign

[MEB]

Hi @lilo-san,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
The brush you used to draw the lines is not a pure vector brush but a bitmap texture stretched along a path. You can check this selecting one of the strokes, clicking the Stroke Width popup in the context toolbar, and then in the Properties button on the bottom left of the pop-over that appears. The brush preview you see on the bottom of the Brush selection dialog is the bitmap that is being used as texture. Since they are not true vector brushes they can't be exported as such to SVG or any other vector format. 

Only the two first brushes of the Pens category do not use any bitmaps/textures and can be exported as true vectors.

[lilo-san]

Hi Meb,

Thank you so much for your quick reply, you are right, that solves it.

Thanks for educating me on this. I'm just starting to try to draw with vectors.

I'm guessing I would need to look for vector brushes. Is there any well known resource for artsy vector brushes?

[MEB]

Hi @lilo-san,
Apart from the basic two aforementioned brushes from the Pens category, there's no other pure vector based brushes similar to what you can find in Illustrator and other vector programs yet because Affinity Designer doesn't support them. All the other vector brushes that come with the app or commercially available elsewhere are based on bitmap textures which are stretched (or repeated depending on the brush config/settings) along a path.