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    8 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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    Dave Lawrence commented  · 

    Hi Tom, I recommend using Affinity Designer. I'm a font designer. i can move hundreds of letters from my font editor, FontLab, and then I put it in Affinity to generate hundreds of slices. You can then export SVG, PNG, JPG, whatever. So you could make hundreds of assets, maybe even thousands of sellable assets in five or so minutes.

    So it's a possible easy workflow to import your stuff from Illustrator into Affinity Designer, and export that.

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    Dave Lawrence commented  · 

    TG, right on. I was just telling my wife the other day, "You can't expect to keep sucking money out of people's bank accounts and expect them not to resent it." Especially when stuff like this doesn't get fixed.

    I was fortunate enough to be on a FontLab closed beta, and they could fix something like this within a week. And sometimes within days.

    Admittedly, I haven't tried it in the AI 2023 version. But I'm sort of tired of checking Adobe's products for them when they don't even fix bugs in a timely manner.

    My workflow for making vector assets has become FontLab→Affinity. Or sometimes Affinity→ FontLab→ Affinity.

    It's no secret that I'm a big supporter of FontLab, having volunteered some video tutorials for them. Their node tools are many times more advanced than either Illustrator or Affinity: like tunni lines for adjusting all curve tension (like changing the corners of all icons), curvature combs like those used in CAD, nodes that automatically adjust to remain smooth, delta filter for adjust parts of a shape without distortion, good selective transforms... And you can even make like a logo for small sizes and a logo for large sizes, then mix the two to get something in between or even extrapolated.

    Also, now that Affinity exports DWG/DXF there's really no reason to export with Illustrator.

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    Dave Lawrence commented  · 

    I hate export.

    One problem, we in font design call the problems "kinks". Handles from nodes are flying all over the place, pinching the outline sharply, where it should be smooth.

    Ridiculous.

    THE DECIMAL SETTINGS ARE BROKEN. CHECK IT OUT.

    Save as works ok, with the same decimal settings.

    I always have to do a "save a"s instead, but if you have multiple artboard, the svg is cluttered with all these empty layers.

    How can this not be fixed by now?

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