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Hi ya, thank you for your quick reply. The only problem is I don’t actually own the desktop version. I’ve found sites that sell affinity brushes and because the iPad version is relatively new i thought I could use those said brushes on this app. Seeing that I can’t - without exporting them from a desktop version - I wanted to know if there was a way round it?

anyway I really appreciate your time!

emma ☺️

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Hi Emma,

In theory the brush pack should just be a .afbrush file which you can import directly into Designer on the iPad.  Having said that, it's not something i've directly tested with brushes from a 3rd party but in theory if it's a .afbrushes file then the iPad version should import it :)

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FWIW, as a test I opened @276ccm's Vintage Lines - Vector Brushes (Free) topic at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/64134-vintage-lines-vector-brushes-free/ on my iPad using Safari & then tapped on the 276ccm Vintage Lines.afbrushes link in the first post. After waiting a bit for that link to load, Safari's screen showed me this, & I tapped on its "More" link:
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That gave me the option to save the file to the iPad's Files app. I did that, choosing an ordinary (unbadged) iCloud Drive folder I had previously created there for importing files. I had no problems importing the .afbrushes file from that folder into Affinity Designer.

So while I can't guarantee it will work for all sites, as long as you can find a link to the actual .afbrushes file download on whatever site you want to obtain it from, I think the above procedure should work.

 

All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7
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1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7

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