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raglet got a reaction from Jowday in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. 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.
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raglet reacted to DAD in 1.8.2 Affinity Designer grid and axes are not working
Dear Serif team,
it's me again. I still can not fulfil my tutorial for pixel art in the pixel persona,
because now after your update 1.8.2 the grid and axes are not working.
Please feel free to see my screen video:
I wanted to create a grid for pixel art, and it is not working.
What a strange behaviour.
Thanks in advance
Sincerely Anke Goldbach
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raglet got a reaction from mondze in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. 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.
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raglet got a reaction from Designwiz in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
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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raglet got a reaction from debraspicher in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
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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raglet got a reaction from Molumen in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
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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raglet got a reaction from Jowday in Expand Stroke
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.
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raglet got a reaction from debraspicher in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. 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.
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raglet got a reaction from Friksel in Expand Stroke bug (not accurate)
Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. 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.
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raglet reacted to Molumen in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
2019 here, version 1.7 released, bug is still present.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/49241-designer-16-expand-stroke-tool-overly-aggressive-with-rounded-corners/&page=2
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raglet got a reaction from ricardomestre in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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.
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raglet got a reaction from Oval in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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.
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raglet reacted to SteveMose in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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.
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raglet got a reaction from Malauch in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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!
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raglet got a reaction from SteveMose in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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!
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raglet got a reaction from Xavez in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
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!
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raglet reacted to Xavez in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
Would it help if I said that this is the one thing keeping our entire company from switching to Affinity Designer full-time? If you’re drawing vector icons for UI work at 24pt, you really need expand stroke to work. Otherwise you might as well draw them in a different programme.
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raglet reacted to Xavez in Designer: Expand stroke is completely broken
I get that software has bugs, and that you cannot allocate 100% of resources to bug resolution. And I get that this is a difficult problem to solve. What I don’t get is how this bug can exist for years without even getting a hint of a timeline for when it will be solved. It’s not a cosmetic bug, it’s a major basic feature that doesn’t work reliably. It’s the equivalent of a car of which the lights work, sometimes.
The basic promise of Designer is that it is great vector editing software. And for 99% it is, but this is a major oversight, not a tiny bug. Whoever is doing product management is either drunk, or doesn’t understand how much this feature is used, and how reliable the results should be.
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raglet reacted to evtonic3 in Expand Stroke bug?
Hopefully these things get sorted out. Its the one thing that makes Serif so unpredictable with what we think is the smallest things to fix get put on the back burner. You would think this is as important as any PSD or HDR improvement.
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raglet reacted to retrograde in Expand Stroke bug?
Squeaky wheel here...
Busenitz, I don't see this as a feature, I see this as a one of the basic cornerstones of a vector app's toolset... especially one that is as cutting edge, innovative and industry leading as Designer is.
...would really love to see some of these core and fundamental aspects nailed before adding "x" features and/or export/compatibility functions/workflow/you name it, etc... It's these "little" things that you do hundreds of times over the course of a piece that need to be solid. They're not sexy, they're not buzz worthy, they don't make for compelling video teasers but they are absolutely essential! :-)
If some of the core structure needs addressing or rewriting as suggested above, in order to make some of this possible, I would think sooner rather than later is the easier course to follow. No?
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raglet got a reaction from MattP in Missing Features that will make Illustrator Obsolete
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! :)
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raglet got a reaction from Schubi63 in Missing Features that will make Illustrator Obsolete
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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raglet got a reaction from Wiredframe in Missing Features that will make Illustrator Obsolete
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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raglet reacted to MEB in Help with coloring/fill
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).