Boldlinedesign Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I used a number of different style vector brushes when I inked a design in Affinity Designer. When I went to convert the brush strokes to curves, only the solid standard brush strokes were converted and all specialized or non-standard brushes were gone.... I backtracked and selected a single stroke made with a non-standard vector brush and went to convert to curves or expand... and it was grayed out. Is there a way to convert these types of brushes to fills? I need to be able to use my vector line work made in Affinity Designer in other apps as vectors.... Is there a solution to this? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Hi, Boldinedesign, The vector brush is a vector only in that there is a vector core that has a bitmap stretched or repeated over it. It is sort of in between vector and bitmap. Depending somewhat on what the specialized brushes were like, you might be able to export the work as a .png, and put that thru an auto-tracer to turn it to .svg, etc. Boldlinedesign 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 31, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 31, 2018 Hi Boldlinedesign, Only the Basic category can be expanded to curves since they are truly vector based stokes. All other categories are raster based textures/images stretched or repeated along the vector path and as such cannot be expanded to curves. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 thanks for the explanation - that helps me make more sense of it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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