Spotniq Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Good afternoon, I'm fairly new to Affinity Designer and am currently working on a logo project. Is there a way to add a border/outline to a shape that is vector based? I've tried adding them by increasing the outline thickness of the shape but every time I export my work it's the only thing that still gets pixelated when I zoom in, all other aspects of the logo are crisp and clean as vector should be. Any ideas of what I may be doing wrong? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 22, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi Spotniq, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) How are you increasing the "thickness" of the outline? Are you adding an Outline FX? If so note that all Layers effects are rasterised on export. To achieve what you want you must increase the stroke width of the shape in the context toolbar (see screenshot below). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spotniq Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 Ahhh.. I was converting pen paths to shapes by going to layers and clicking on Expand Stroke. Thanks MEB, is there a better way to achieve this without having to use Expand Stroke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 23, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 23, 2017 Hi Spotniq, I'm not sure i understood your last question. The Expand Stroke command doesn't rasterise the stroke. It only converts the stroke to a shape, so you end up with two objects: one shape with just the original fill and no stroke colour and the other is the stroke itself converted to a shape and filled with the original object's stroke colour. So i don't think this is what causing your rasterisation issue on export (assuming you are not using brushes for the strokes - some are raster based). Any chance you can attach the afdesign file here or PM me a link to it so i can see what you are doing/working with? I may me able to advise you better. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spotniq Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Hi MEB, to be honest since I've tried your way I've tried recreating what I was doing wrong and can not seem to replicate it. I guess that is good! Thank you for your help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 27, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 27, 2017 Ok. Thanks for letting me know. Glad it's all sorted out. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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