tudor Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 There is something weird going on in one of my files created in 1.7.3, then edited with 1.8 beta. See the screenshot below, I have three shapes, stroke with no fill. When I apply the Expand stroke command on each shape, the two straight lines just disappear, while the shape on the right looks like this: I attached the afdesign file in case anyone wants to look at it. test beta.afdesign
Old Bruce Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 This appears to be the result of having the combination of open curve with align stroke set to something other than centre. A closed shape will expand 'correctly' regardless of the setting for align. 4 hours ago, tudor said: There is something weird going on in one of my files created in 1.7.3, then edited with 1.8 beta. See the screenshot below, I have three shapes, stroke with no fill. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
tudor Posted January 11, 2020 Author Posted January 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Old Bruce said: This appears to be the result of having the combination of open curve with align stroke set to something other than centre. You are right, I took a look at the Stroke studio and the strokes were aligned inside, even though on screen they looked like they were center aligned. The question is, why does the application let me set the stroke alignment on an open shape? An open shape does not have an inside or an outside, so those stroke alignment options don't make sense (and the program does ignore them when drawing the curves on screen). This causes only troubles as we can see here.
Gear maker Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 It is designed to automatically ignore the inside or outside for an open shape. But there is a bug in the new Expand Stroke, that doesn't ignore it. A bug report should be filed. MattP 1 iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra
walt.farrell Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 14 minutes ago, Gear maker said: . A bug report should be filed. Unless the same error happens in 1.7, it's most appropriate to have it posted here in the beta forum. The bug report forums are only for the retail releases. Even if it does happen in 1.7, too, because Expand Stroke has been reworked in the beta it may be best reported here. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Staff MattP Posted January 12, 2020 Staff Posted January 12, 2020 13 hours ago, Gear maker said: It is designed to automatically ignore the inside or outside for an open shape. But there is a bug in the new Expand Stroke, that doesn't ignore it. A bug report should be filed. Exactly this - I've obviously missed an 'if' for this case - it'll be very easy to fix, but I messed up. Thanks for spotting it! woefi 1
Gear maker Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 Matt, you and the team have done such a great job creating the Affinity products I think we all will be very happy to overlook this little oops. Thanks again for all the hard work. Mike MattP 1 iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra
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