Eishle Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Affinity community, I need your help! I'm fairly new to Affinity Designer and I'd like to use some brushes which are available throughout the web. While I have no problems importing afbrushes, it seems to be impossible to do the same with ai and eps. I could not find any working solution both in the Affinity help and the forum. Let me illustrate the problem with an example. I got a pack of brushes at this website and unzipped it on my MacBook. In AD, I tried to import the brushes, like always, by navigating to the brushes panel and clicking import brushes. If I click the button, I can move to the unzipped folder where I eventually see ai as well as eps brushes. But as you can see in the screenshot, the respective brushes are greyed out—no matter if in draw or pixel persona. On this page, Affinity says that one would be able to import both brushes. And if I open an eps brush by right clicking open with, AD opens them as you can see in the second screenshot. But then, I don't no what to do to use them as brushes. So I would be very happy, if you could help me to solve my problem/confusion. Besides the aforementioned problem: AD rocks! Cheers, Ali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eishle Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 @Mensch Mesch, weißt du was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 30 minutes ago, Eishle said: On this page, Affinity says that one would be able to import both brushes. That Help page just says that you can import/export EPS files. It does not say that you can import them as brushes. It's possible that you can, but someone with more brush experience than I will have to say what you would have to do to create Affinity brushes from them. Sorry. Eishle 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted January 25, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2019 Hi Eishle Unfortunately Affinity doesn't currently support .eps or .ai brush files. These are also known as 'true vector' brushes and have been requested previously on our forums. We hope to include support for these in the future, but we have no eta for this currently, my apologies. Eishle 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eishle Posted January 27, 2019 Author Share Posted January 27, 2019 On 1/25/2019 at 2:27 PM, Dan C said: We hope to include support for these in the future, but we have no eta for this currently, my apologies. @Dan C, thanks for your clarification, anyways. I'd really love if you could include this function in the near future. There's so much wonderful stuff out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mensch Mesch Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 On 1/25/2019 at 12:34 PM, Eishle said: @Mensch Mesch, weißt du was? Hallo @Eishle, wie von den anderen schon beschrieben kannst du bislang noch keine ai oder eps Pinsel importieren. Wenn du die eps jedoch öffnest kannst du natürlich selbst daraus neue Pinsel über den herkömmlichen Weg (Export als png) erstellen. Leider muss du dann natürlich sämtliche Einstellungen für die Pinsel selbst vornehmen. Keep on drawin' Norbert Eishle 1 Quote Find me on YouTube | Mensch Mesch | MeWe | Twitter | Pinterest iMac27 5k 32 GB, MacBook Pro M1 | macOS 12.1 | iPad Pro2 | iOS 15.2 Affinity Designer 1.10.5 [macOS & iOS] | Affinity Photo 1.10.5 [macOS & iOS] | Affinity Publisher 1.10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eishle Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 20 minutes ago, Mensch Mesch said: Hallo @Eishle, Wenn du die eps jedoch öffnest kannst du natürlich selbst daraus neue Pinsel über den herkömmlichen Weg (Export als png) erstellen. Leider muss du dann natürlich sämtliche Einstellungen für die Pinsel selbst vornehmen. Danke dir. Das probiere ich mal aus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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