LostInTranslation Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I frequently need to convert vector lines into shapes. I am using Layer -> Expand Stroke. However, the results are mediocre and unusable. Is this the wrong way to do it or is the result just that bad? I am doing this in Xara Designer all the time by "Convert Line to Shape" and it works flawlessly without any visible change to the line. I really hope the error is on my side, help please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LostInTranslation Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 16 hours ago, haakoo said: This is a known issue that's being sorted,for the time being: Enlarge the object> expand stroke> reduce the size back to original proportions Or do it in xara and copy/paste Thanks. It almost seems out of character for Serif to release something *that* bad. But at least I know that it's not my fault. I am slowly moving from Xara to Affinty, but issues like that are not helpful. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. EDIT: I just tried to copy/paste to Xara - DOES NOT WORK Next step was to export from Affinity as PDF/SVG and importing into Xara. This resulted in a totally messed up thing. Upon export AD seems to expand strokes by itself. With the same abysmal results. When I open the file in Xara it's all jaggy and completely unusable. Enlarging and then expanding stroke did not work either. When scaling back, the width/height ratio is different than before. This is absolutely not acceptable, why is there no outcry yet? It's such a very basic function, I am sure that a lot of people need this to work? Serif, please get your act together and fix this already. You just cost me hours of work, because I have to redo the whole logo in Xara again to be able to export it. I mostly have good experiences with the Affinity suite so far, but this is below amateurish and really a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKT7 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 You can try copying and pasting in Inkscape - it has way better expand stroke algorithm. Only problem is when you copy and paste into Inkscape the scale of the graphics change between the programs by a factor of 3.125 so you need to scale it back accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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