PixelPest

He pretty sure sure looks for AI´s awesome Shapebuilder-tool - one of the most requested feature for AD I guess.

Not kind of a big deal methinks:

This is just a quick hack - but you might get the idea. Check line width and pressure adjustments please: Raptor.afdesign Cheers

While 1.) is pretty easy to achieve with enabled pressure property and a high Mitre: value 2.) require lots of manually work: Good luck.

He´s probably talking about an vector-eraser tool like this one:

Corners from the Corner-tool are not scaling proportionally with the object - there are already some complaints about this behaviour in the forum. Baking Corners is the only option here - already mentioned above.

Link works with macOS Safari.

Not so here:

Can you post an image of what you´re trying to achieve - so we can see how close we can get with AD. I still thought it was about a "gradient following a path": 😀

In a non-destructive way it´s: 1. draw a rectangle (no Stroke/no fill) above the image of the same size. 2. on a Mac hold down cmd-key and resize symmetrically from left or right till your liking. 3. Drag image onto rectangle in Layers Panel to use it as a mask. BTW: in AD/PixelPersona it works as expected; crop-tool - hold cmd-key down - click+drag - release.

Probably same issue: I´m close to give up at AD. So promising - so much trouble. I´ll never update again in an automated way - never again! 😟

I added as a bug report here:

Please see here: I call it critical, because there´s no workaround (converting to paths, reversing sequence etc - nothing helps) and it´s true for Affinity Publisher as well.

Same here with Arial Font. Very odd: Ever more strange: when I delete the faulty part of the glyph and draw the outline new - the Boolean operation fails again at that specific point.

Then try the native (1.0beta) version.

While Garry´s method will end in an infinity loop path you might consider to break the "Pie" at the middle point and delete after converting to Curves:

Unfortunately this can be quite cumbersome as you´ll need start+ end points at the top row alternated - from there it´s just a few clicks:

I can't help it if the work is already done. I said: "I´d make a shape for the face for instance and put any content/detail inside (masked by the shape) and the shadow shape at first in the hierarchy with either transparent grey or/and additional blend mode." In the case of the example screenshot from @BenjiGameDev I´d draw a snapping/transparent/multiplied shape on top - no big deal really. In case of vector graphics planning has always been part of the process methinks.

It don´t need to match - it´s masked by the "head path" und just got a little amount of "Gaussian blur" along some transparency and "Multiply" blend mode.

I´m not under the impression to need any workaround here:

I´d make a shape for the face for instance and put any content/detail inside (masked by the shape) and the shadow shape at first in the hierarchy with either transparent grey or/and additional blend mode.

I was misdirected by your example.

A Compound Path (hold alt-key while Boolean-add) may work for you then: Cheers

When you look at my GIF from Aug 5th you´ll notice that this step isn´t necessary.

I got SV2 for 99ct at an offer, but still prefer Inkscape over it. You can get it for 20 bucks at StackSocial I believe. I´m not advertising here! Regarding XQuartz/Inkscape: see my note 3hs ago.