Gitmesteak Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 On designer v1.7.2 I have noticed when opening eps files, the shapes are opening incorrectly (seems to open smaller). The illustration looks like there is a stroke around the shapes. In previous versions of designer, I did not see this issue. Please see template example. Shirttestfile.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted September 20, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 20, 2019 Hi Gitmesteak, Could you attach the source EPS file that you are attaching please? Without these we cannot look into the current import behaviour vs previous versions. Do you have any idea which version was importing the file correctly for you? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitmesteak Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 Yes, Attaching source. 54.eps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 On 20. September 2019 at 7:13 AM, Gitmesteak said: The illustration looks like there is a stroke around the shapes And you never used a white background to eliminate gaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitmesteak Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 Hello Oval, No, I have never used that method to eliminate the gaps. How would this work for shapes with gradients? or any shape that is not pure white? I subscribe to a illustration site that provides a wide variety of files. I have been noticing that most of the files now open with these gaps. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 5 hours ago, Gitmesteak said: I subscribe to a illustration site What are the terms and conditions and do you think this file is an illustration file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted September 23, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 23, 2019 Hi Gitmesteak, Thanks for the file. The original EPS is an Illustrator formatted EPS file which means it contains two streams of data: Regular EPS data and an Embedded AI file. This means that when Illustrator opens the EPS it will read the Illustrator stream meaning it will show exactly as it was saved when created in Illustrator. So for example, your file uses mesh fills for many of the creases and folds. These aren't compatible with EPS and will get rasterised into pixel data in the EPS stream, but when opened in AI they appear correctly as vector objects because it is using the AI stream. When the EPS file is opened in Affinity we are unable to read the AI stream and instead have to open the EPS stream with the rasterised data. What you're seeing with the stroke like objects is the edges of the pixel data, where it means other edges of pixel data. This creates a bit of fringing on the edges and is then showing the background grey below it. This is why Oval suggested using the white background behind the t-shirts, as it will eliminate this bleeding of the background. As such this isn't a bug, just an annoyance on how Illustrator exports EPS files! Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On 20. September 2019 at 7:13 AM, Gitmesteak said: In previous versions of designer, I did not see this issue. Even if you would open that illustration.EPS in an old version of Affinity Designer you would get the same because those gaps are the result of the rendering algorithm as you can see if you use rectangles side by side (without a real gap, but you get a gap if you have a minimum contrast to the background): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitmesteak Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 @Sean P Thanks for the explanation. I guess I will try to avoid EPS files in general. @oval Thanks for the method to hide the gap factor. I will see if this comes in handy in the future. Thanks all, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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