abra100pro Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 I had to design a sticker on which the printer needed a contour (stroke around) for cutting. I made it in AD and the printer said: no fiil, only contour, please! So I looked at it in Illustrator and found that the stroke around the design had been transformed into a fill by AD in the PDF. So I seem not to be able to deliver this design in AD which therefore I consider a bug. See images: AD and Illustrator. Merry christmas to ye all! Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted January 3, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 3, 2020 Hi @abra100pro Can you please attach the project file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra100pro Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Sure, please find it attached. LXG-contourprob.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Make the cutcontour path align to the middle. Currently it aligned to the outside. Any path that is not aligned to the middle gets converted to a filled compound object. Gabe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Surely this should still be considered a bug? I'm not sure I follow the logic of only centre aligned strokes exporting correctly to pdf... How does a similar source file export with centre, outer and inner strokes from Illustrator? Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2402) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 18 minutes ago, Hangman said: Surely this should still be considered a bug? I'm not sure I follow the logic of only centre aligned strokes exporting correctly to pdf... How does a similar source file export with centre, outer and inner strokes from Illustrator? A pdf has no concept of stroke alignment. The screen shot below from an AI pdf has 3 rectangles. Top used alignment to the Middle, middle rectangle to the inside, bottom rectangle to the outside. Only the top rectangle survived as a stroke for a rectangular object. But do note the extra nodes on the bottom rectangle. Illy sucks in certain respects and this is one of those. Gabe and Olly Wright 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra100pro Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 Thank you for pointing this out. Your thoughts are really something to consider. I think the first of your samples seems quite reasonable to me, though. I cannot see issues with that one. IMHO this would be the behaviour expected. I don't know the PDF-handling of that, therefore it could be a PDF problem. However. I surely am not the first to have designed a contour for cutting in the print process. Almost missed the answer of MikeW: Mike: thanks for the easy solution! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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