Pedro Eira Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 I tried expand stroke in different situations and it seems worst than before. Very sad :( See example here : https://imgur.com/a/iEanWPO combdn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightFromSpace Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Same thing here... ouch this is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi Pedro Eira, Welcome to Affinity Forums The Expand Stroke command is much more accurate than before unfortunately there's a few specific cases where it fails. Can you please attach the file original afdesign file shown in your screenshot for us to check/test against new code revisions? Thank you. If you stumble upon more cases please let us know/provide a sample file so we can add them to out log/report. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enes Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 the expanded stroke changes even when I change the position of the element. I hope the file can help. stroke bug.afdesign MEB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Eira Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 here you have the file. I've been testing all afternoon and It happens the same with other simple cases. Overall it's really really bad. expand stroke bug 1.afdesign MEB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 That's pretty bad Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 15 hours ago, Enes said: the expanded stroke changes even when I change the position of the element since ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 15 hours ago, Pedro Eira said: here you have the file. I've been testing all afternoon and It happens the same with other simple cases. Overall it's really really bad. expand stroke bug 1.afdesign 16.12 kB · 6 downloads Weird. I downloaded the file and got the same result, but when I bumped up the stroke weight to 12 points it expanded fine... Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 1 hour ago, retrograde said: Weird. I downloaded the file and got the same result, but when I bumped up the stroke weight to 12 points it expanded fine... Not for me, I went unto 30pt and still get a mess - very similar bug to boolean operations and compounds with 1.8 ------ I was expecting improvements?!?!?! Screen_Recording_2020-02-28_at_10_51_51.mov Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 18 hours ago, MEB said: The Expand Stroke command is much more accurate than before unfortunately there's a few specific cases where it fails. I disagree, it's far worse than before in every scenario for me. I tried expanding a simple stroke around the Honda logo for a customer and it turned into abstract art. Expanding strokes around any text seems to fail for me, and combining the results with the original shape is an absolute disaster. rovedajr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 28, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2020 Hi Eines, Pedro Eira, Thanks for providing the files. I've added them to our log. Hi Brian, I understand your frustration. What i meant is that the shapes it generates now (in the cases where it works) are more accurate than they were before. Unfortunately there was also a few regressions (due to the rewritten code): some cap options, text objects, a couple shape tools are failing to expand/resolve properly. These issues are being looked at as we speak. My apologies for the inconvenience this is causing you. We are doing our best to fix them as soon as we can. Thanks for understanding. Dazmondo77 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovedajr Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, MEB said: These issues are being looked at as we speak. My apologies for the inconvenience this is causing you. We are doing our best to fix them as soon as we can. Thanks for understanding. Is there any way to "downgrade" temporarily to 1.7 while these issues are solved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I get that it's going to take a little time to fix whatever has gone wrong, that's totally understandable. So my next question, is there any way to roll back the Mac App Store version to the previous (1.7) build? Simple jobs that were taking 10 minutes are now taking 45 mins to an hours of playing around until I get somewhat satisfactory results, it's very hard to work this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 28, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2020 Hi rovedajr, Brian D, For Affinity Store users only (these versions require a product key for activation) please check the links below:- Affinity Photo- Affinity Designer- Affinity Publisher For Mac App Store users there's no way to revert to a previous version unless you have made a backup before. benbournane massinissa, rovedajr and Cealcrest 2 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Eira Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Thanks for the quick responses MEB. I hope this will be fixed soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, MEB said: For Mac App Store users there's no way to revert to a previous version unless you have made a backup before. Well balls... that'll teach me for giving Apple a 30% cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwienen Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 here are another example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 28, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2020 Hi kaiwienen, Thank you for your feedback. Whenever possible please attach the original afdesign file. Thank you. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovedajr Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 1 hour ago, MEB said: Hi kaiwienen, Thank you for your feedback. Whenever possible please attach the original afdesign file. Thank you. Well, MEB, I took the liberty to attach a file too. It shows the error quite clearly. I hope it helps. alcazar.afdesign MEB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camloken Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 I have noticed the 'Add' feature is also broken and does the same thing when combining shapes. The bug is probably related. I have attached a file. Try expanding only the topmost stroke, then combine it to the top shape. You will see a very similar problem where it fills the right area of the combined shape. My guess is in both cases, where the intersection happens, you are forgetting to create a node (or point). rig-icon.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 On 2/27/2020 at 5:26 PM, Pedro Eira said: here you have the file. I've been testing all afternoon and It happens the same with other simple cases. Overall it's really really bad. expand stroke bug 1.afdesign 16.12 kB · 11 downloads This appears fixed in AP 1.8.2.172 beta. rovedajr 1 Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Eira Posted March 4, 2020 Author Share Posted March 4, 2020 That's Great news. It seems that you are using the iPad version, I hope it's fixed too on the mac pro. I will test it when I get home. rovedajr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Eira Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 I don't have that update on my Mac. And I'm really struggling because beside the stroke problem, the Affinity doesn't save the files as before. So I'm loosing a lot of work because of that. Is horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stldoug Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) Here's another example of a failing expand stroke. MacOS 10.15.3 Affinity Designer 1.8.1 Edit: Seems to be fixed in Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.2.4 broken-document-icon.afdesign Edited March 14, 2020 by stldoug Tested in latest Beta (1.8.2.4) rovedajr 1 Quote ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ macOS 10.15.4 | iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) | 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 | 24 GB | Radeon Pro 570 4 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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