Fixx Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Problem is that all too often AD will rasterize all content in export to PDF. It should be possible for example to keep shape edges vector and rasterize only contents. Noise fills should be able to have vector bounds. Shadows should be bitmap elements placed inside affected shapes (InDy had this right from version 1). Please beef up PDF export. affi.usr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPG8 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Same for SVG. Many effects can be pure vector. Outer shadow is one effect that could be pure vector, but gets rasterized. Another is Outline. I like the how effects can be quickly added and adjusted, but do not like that they are rasterized when exported to SVG. I can create the same effects manually by creating additional separate shapes in AD and Inkscape. AD would have a big advantage if it did not rasterize effects that could be exported as vector. affi.usr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Problem is that all too often AD will rasterize all content in export to PDF. It should be possible for example to keep shape edges vector and rasterize only contents. Noise fills should be able to have vector bounds. Shadows should be bitmap elements placed inside affected shapes (InDy had this right from version 1). I thought we were doing most of that, but looking into it I see the code got broken early last year. We'll get it fixed for 1.6. Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 We'll get it fixed for 1.6. That almost rhymes if you read it aloud. :D pixelrain 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Outer shadow is one effect that could be pure vector, but gets rasterized. Just curious if this is correct because I thought that shadow effects were always raster. Maybe Dave you could shed some light on to this matter (pun intended). Maybe things have changed and there are now vector shadow effects? Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Just curious if this is correct because I thought that shadow effects were always raster. Maybe Dave you could shed some light on to this matter (pun intended). Maybe things have changed and there are now vector shadow effects? SVG has a shadow effect, but it does not look identical to Affinity's, so currently we don't attempt to use it. Same with other SVG filters. Hokusai 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Dave, Thanks for the explanation! Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 That almost rhymes if you read it aloud. It's got a good beat. Easy to dance to. I give it an 80. Maybe we should make it a T-shirt. "Please put the fix in one-dot-six." ;-) JET matt.baker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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