MaryE Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Hi I have had Affinity Designer for a while and are now really trying to get into using it but I am running into problems with some of the features being greyed out.I am trying to learn how to use the stroke expand feature in the layers panel and it doesn't work. I need some advice. Please help Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Hi Mary welcome to the forums, First you should change your user name to something other than your email address so as to avoid spam. 9 hours ago, mwbluebird@gmail.comMary said: I am trying to learn how to use the stroke expand feature in the layers panel and it doesn't work. I need some advice. You may be mis reading the context menu, in the layers panel there is a Expand Selection option but no Expand Stroke, that is in the Layers Menu. The Expand Selection is for opening up a group. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 10 hours ago, mwbluebird@gmail.comMary said: I need some advice. Please help This forum section is intended for bug reports: requests for help and advice should really be posted to the Questions section. Perhaps a moderator will move the thread. 13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: First you should change your user name to something other than your email address so as to avoid spam. You can do that via the following link: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/settings/username Having said that, ‘gmail.comMary’ is not a valid domain name, so address harvesters may struggle with it. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryE Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share Posted July 6, 2020 Maybe I explained what I was trying to say wrong. I had said I was trying to learn to use the expand stroke feature which is on the menu panel at the top not the layers panel. Hope this is clearer. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 12 minutes ago, MaryE said: I had said I was trying to learn to use the expand stroke feature You had also said it was greyed out, which suggests that you didn’t have a suitable object selected. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 There is not much to learn about this feature. Just select a stroked object and apply the command. Example: a text frame with the character "v" was converted to curves (> option in toolbar) –> then the menu command was applied –> the result was selected with the node tool to show its curve with nodes: –> –> In the Affinity Help you'll find a bit of description:https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/CurvesShapes/expandStroke.html Alfred 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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