Stroke width tool compatibility

[cyk]

In Illustrator I use the Stroke Width Tool and lot and I've found that when I import Ai files over to Affinity Designer, the strokes that have been modified with the Illustrator Width Tool have all been expanded and therefore no longer strokes. Obviously this presents a compatibility problem where all my previous strokes are no longer editable.

 

I'd like to see a directly compatibly with the Illustrator Width Tool or not have the strokes expanded and converted the Affinity Designers Pressure adjustment (Though I like the direct Width Tool much more).

 

Thanks.

[Alfred]

I don’t think you’re ever going to get direct compatibility. The Affinity apps can only read the content of the PDF stream, not the native AI format, so you’re limited by how the drawing is represented in a PDF file.