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  1. On 6/18/2019 at 10:28 AM, CJ Randolph said:

    Heya... I know many of you have heard this workaround a few times, but others haven't: the warped stroke expansion happens when you're working at a small scale (10s of pixels wide). If you do your initial drafting at a larger size and then export at your target size, you'll get the correct results.

    As an example workflow, if you're designing a 64x64 icon, setup your artboard as 640x640px with grid lines every 10px. Draw as you normally would (but y'know large), and when your icon is ready to go, hop into the Export Persona, set the slice's output to 64w and voila! The exact small graphic you were trying to draw.

    I know this bug is impacting a lot of your ability to use Affinity Designer, but as with a lot of techniques when we're coming from Illustrator, you have to work a slightly different way here. In this case, AD prefers to draft at larger scales. But like... that's why we work in vector, right? One of the big reasons, at least. It's scalable. We draw on an arbitrary artboard and spit out final graphics that are 10 pixels wide or 30 feet wide.

    Hope this helps someone. I think this program is super rad. :)

    Hi @CJ Randolph, while the scale does make things a little better it is still most certainly not pixel perfect. As you can see in the attached image, which is a 640px x 640px canvas, the red expanded stroke does not line up perfectly with the black original stroke below it. There's seems to be a fundamental issue with the way the software goes about converting strokes to fills.

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  2. On 6/14/2019 at 11:24 PM, debraspicher said:

    Yeah it's unfortunate it has taken this long to correct the feature. I'm not usually keen to complain, but Expand Stroke is such a major feature for shape-building. It's part of my "typical" workflow. I tend to keep my simpler designs for Affinity Designer and anything super complex, I do in Illustrator because I tend to run into too many bugs or limitations. I still prefer Designer as Illustrator is getting rather slow & clunky.

    Yes, I agree. I hate complaining too and it's quite pissing off when people think they're entitled to new features from software companies. However, the reason I think this is different is the lack of any information, for over 2 years, about a critical feature that this company proudly claims on their sales page.

     

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  3. This issue was reported over 2 years ago and there's no sign of it being even considered let alone fixed. All I've heard since I reported it is a message like this from the moderators saying that it's a known issue and that it's been passed on to the dev team. 

  4. 1 hour ago, SteveMose said:

    I think they are more concerned about launching tablet versions than actually fixing their main product. You cannot tout UI software which fails in a primary requirement for UI design. The auto-response from moderators is very disheartening. 

    Absolutely. The marketing is very misleading, that's my biggest issue. 

  5. Jeez, we have radio silence on this from the Affinity team. It's quite disheartening, to be honest. And we have moderators pointing us to other threads where more people are frustrated about the same issue. I'm a big advocate of supporting smaller companies and have got many of my friends and clients to purchase Affinity products but this is really disappointing. Obviously, there is no compulsion to do anything based on user request but I think it's very irresponsible to say that you're working on a fix and 4 years on you're still saying the same thing. Say it won't be fixed in the near future or at least give us some information that is less vague.

  6. Let me start by saying that I am a huge advocate of Affinity products and I own Designer and Photo for Mac and iPad. We're coming up on 4 years of having this bug (critical IMHO) and all I still see is @MEB's copy-pasted response from years ago. Now I get that this is a harder bug to fix but it seems to have been completely ignored. And if it has been ignored, I think it's very misleading to have the word 'Icons' listed on the website. Even 'pixel perfect' is quite misleading considering this bug. And as people pointed, there are free and cheaper vector apps that handle Expanding of strokes far more gracefully than Designer does. Many icon designers purchase this as an illustrator alternative and as it stands today, Designer is NOT suited for icon design.

    I completely agree with @Xavez's comments above. This is definitely a major oversight!

  7. We already do snap to path intersection.  It depends on the context of what you are trying to achieve.

     

    Also, what version are you using, because snapping of groups should now work ok.

     

    Hey Ben,

     

    Sorry the group snap was my bad so I've removed it from my initial post. It works fine on 1.4.2 and 1.5b11. I'm new to AD and hadn't understood the concept of candidates and having to activate them before trying to snap.

     

    Snap to intersection however only works in 1.5b11 and not in 1.4.2. Also the over all improvements to snapping in 1.5 are great btw. Thanks a lot for that! :)

  8. Illustrator has a tool that's quite useful for this. It's the Live Paint Bucket and it basically detects the boundaries of the area you click (like a pixel selection) and fills it with the color you've chosen. However, this is all vector based. The coloured area you just created is actually a shape with no stroke that was created from the lines of the shapes that conformed its boundaries. It's created as a live group, meaning that if you change the curves of one of the shapes that conforms its boundaries, it automatically updates the filled area accordingly.

    You can expand it, to separate its parts and continue editing as an ordinary shape if needed. It's the perfect tool for colouring cartoons and other artwork. However it does rely heavily on the precision of boolean operations to determine the fillable areas and draw the corresponding shape. Would be an excellent candidate for a feature request since it speeds up this type of work considerably.

    Although from a previous version of Illustrator this video shows how it works (start around 1:45 minutes).

     

    Hey so any chance of a Live Paint type illustrator feature making it into Affinity Designer anytime soon?

  9. This is my list of feature requests so I can completely ditch illustrator. While I love Affinity Designer and bought it to support development, It doesn't fully replace Illustrator because of a few key features that are missing:

     

    Feature Request List:

     

    1) Path offset

    2) Shape builder

    3) Snap to intersection between 2 paths (This has been fixed in the latest 1.5 beta)

    4) Snap to self/copy. (i.e. when I drag and object it should snap to its previous position, or if I Alt drag a copy of an object it should snap to the original object). 

     

    Existing Features That Are Buggy:

     

    1) Expanding a stroke creates way too many verts

     

    Other Low Priority Features:

     

    1) Use saved pressure curves across documents

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