moooztar Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Hi! I have actually tried to stop using Adobe for good. Being an ex-tobacco lover I gave it a "cold turkey" cure by just uninstalling and quiting my Adobe subscriptions. Mostly it has been a great journey and also good for my creativity since obviously new tools forces you to think outside of usual paths of designing. However: I have some issues exporting my work as it gives mixed results: 1. PDFs usually struggle with gradients where the PDF keeps textual work as vector but converts my "gradient vectors as bitmap" (which is a no go if I make for example a logo) 2. SVGs are "better" but here I see that the curvature of for example a "water drop" (regular shape selected in Affinity Designer) are converted in a way that the "curves" are no longer "smooth" This leaves me to use EPS which seems to be useless in results.. Any tip for me on how to achieve a full vector export? Worst case I will have to just go for a large DPI for prints but I really would prefer to be able to get good vector exports in PDF. Illustrator and other tools did this fine (as I recall).. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moooztar Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 I just tried to go to Export persona and turn on "ignore fill / filter effect" on SVG and it now looks ok. Is this the way to go for best "WYSIWYG" vector export results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Turning off Rasterise unsupported effects will ensure vectors, but may not result in WYSIWYG. It simply won't bother outputting properties that the export format cannot represent. So for example, if you have a fill colour with noise, it will be exported without the noise. If you have layer opacity on a group, the opacity will probably be lost. If you have a conical fill, it'll probably go out as a solid colour. If you post an example we can take a look at what is causing the rasterisation. It isn't only layer effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobertdouglas Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I thought there was a way to get gradients to be purely vector, but I'm trying to export (as .pdf) a conical gradient and it's telling me that some areas will be rasterised, which unfortunately is not possible for my project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I thought there was a way to get gradients to be purely vector, but I'm trying to export (as .pdf) a conical gradient and it's telling me that some areas will be rasterised, which unfortunately is not possible for my project. The only way to (mostly) preserve gradients as pure vectors is to generate a separate vector shape for each color in the gradient everywhere that it appears. It still will look "banded" (each transition from one color to the next will be visible) under careful observation, particularly if the document uses an 8 bit color color space. Since this can create millions of individual vector shapes, it is not very practical if reasonable file sizes are important. ianrobertdouglas 1 Quote 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 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobertdouglas Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Linear gradients seem to be okay. But not conical. I really wish I could disable everything in AD that would lead to rasterisation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 I thought there was a way to get gradients to be purely vector, but I'm trying to export (as .pdf) a conical gradient and it's telling me that some areas will be rasterised, which unfortunately is not possible for my project. The PDF specification does not support conical gradients directly, I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobertdouglas Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 I was trying .pdf just because I had the impression that it is more flexible and capable than other formats (e.g., no transparency in .eps, or is it .svg?). Whatever format that produces vector only output would be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 None of the vector formats we support, has conical gradients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobertdouglas Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 None of the vector formats we support, has conical gradients. Dave, if you have a minute can you give some input on this thread? I have an urgent case I need to find a solution for. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/25252-flatten-transparency-all-vector/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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