A_B_C

Thanks - I appreciate it! I design for screen print companies by making shirt designs for their clients. Sometimes I get opportunities to make fun characters based on the school mascot or a theme. I much prefer inking in Affinity Designer than any other vector app. 

Cool drawing, by the way! 

I was testing out Designer 1.8 Beta tonight by tracing over my blue jay sketch with the built in vector brush under the "pens" section. I only adjusted the taper, not the opacity. All lines were made with the same brush. I overlap my lines and then expand them to fills and then typically hit "divide" to divide them into pieces where they intersect, allowing me to delete the extra overlaps quickly. I know the "divide" operation is still buggy and being worked on, but the issue I had was before I got to that step.
After selecting all my strokes, I hit expand several times because only a few lines were affected each time I did so. I also hit "convert to curves" Some of my former strokes became what look like empty fills with a stroke -(the horizontal stroke right above the legs for example) Upon closer inspection, it's a thin fill with an empty interior. I included some screen shots as well as the file with a before and after I completed the steps above. 
Am I missing something or is this an issue with the app?
Thanks for any help
blue jay error.afdesign

Thank you! I'll take a look! (it's not the 'expand stroke' function itself that's causing the issue, it's the boolean operation 'add' that I run on the results to remove overlaps that's causing the problem - I need to fix this though, so hang in there and I'll take a look!)  
 
Edited to say: I've just tried this in my latest beta build (I've not released it yet, but it will be 1.8.0.3) and it succeeds - but I still maintain there's a problem with the Boolean operations that causes some issues and I'll try to fix that  

All very lovely! 

For the mean time, you could try the Appearance Panel. Works a little better with closed shapes. 

All very lovely! 

MAM NGU QUA - Five fruits set on ancestors altar

 
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COCONUT

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HOA MAI - HOA DAO
Viet Nam TET holidays are coming soon. I'm glad to share with you my drawing the Apricot Blossom and the Peach Blossom in Affinity Designer for the traditional lunar new year CANH TY.
The Peach Blossom - HOA DAO

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The Ochna integerrima - HOA MAI

Download afdesign file
 
CHEER!!

Another interesting new font, especially here for developers (coders), so those who have to write/read a lot source code, is the JetBrains Mono typeface. - See:
JetBrains Mono typeface

art piece done on Affinity designer ipad pro
the most important steps are here if you like it. in this simple guide
I hope this can help some of you.
I do these tutorials in my free time after work for my clients.
anyway is always happy to be sharing my experience. ciao 

jhon
 

Matt's on it! 

Hey @A_B_C,
I've logged this with our developers
 

Hey @A_B_C,
Thanks for spotting this. I logged it with our developers.

Hi Lobsang,

Your issue is still open with development so hasn't been resolved yet. A_B_C's suggestion is probably your best bet. You should be able to save it as a Style in the Styles panel as well!
This is a known issue and can happen with shapes with extreme mitres on them. I've passed your file on to development.

For the mean time, you could try the Appearance Panel. Works a little better with closed shapes. 

My way of raising money towards  the Australian Bush fires
Everything in my shop  that is sold between today, January 11th 2020 until February 29th, 2020 I will be donating 50%.That is SALES not profit. Daily updates will be posted  first thing every morning my time (Melbourne) AEST.
Also I am tweeting Affiliation links to hand picked designs form the same marketplace as where my design kits are sold.
Creative Fabrica.  I am also  in discussion with the  wonderful people at Creative Fabrica on a joint  fund raiser so look out for that as well.
So PLEASE SHARE. On the 1st of March 2020 I shall announce the total of the Sales  through my account at Creative Fabrica  (screenshot) plus proof of payment of donation to Official austrlaian Red Cross who have been Tweeted with the following short video clip.
I am 35 minutes away form the Victorian fires and watch the online Vic Emergency Services site 24/7. My heart is broken over the devastation ; those whose lives were lost; the animals  the millions upon millions of animals all gone. Just heartbreaking.
 
 
 
Australia_Bushfire_Fundraiser_1_My_Designs.mp4

Hi all, 
I've been learning how to, and experimenting making brushes and swatches and I thought I would share some with you.
If you have any advice, tips, hints, suggestions I would really love to hear them.

Brushes_swatches_for_Infinity_Designer_Forum.zip

That's OK!...I added them to the forum for them to be used/edited....There will be some more leaves!...

Here’s an IDML context that fails to import properly. Here’s another one. 

I already imagine to create a lovely Thanksgiving card for my American friend with your assets! I’ll make sure to give you proper credit! 

Thanks!..I hope you find them useful...but ....I am still working on this project!

You’re awfully generous, Stuart! Thank you so much … 

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