AD stroke wont repeat

[arob]

I converted my text to curves and set the brush on my stroke to repeat. The attached screen capture is an exaggerated example of what happens all the time. I really need to make a rough outline around my text. Thanks for the help!

Angela

[Pšenda]

Unfortunately, I do not understand what the problem is. In the picture is what do you want to achieve? Or is it wrong and you want something else? But what? Can you show it?

[arob]

Thanks for the response. The inside of the P repeats the outside of the P stretches. I need the stroke to repeat over the entire letter. Sorry for not explaining myself better in the first message.

[Pšenda]

On 3/19/2021 at 3:31 PM, angier said:

the outside of the P stretches

It is closed curve? 

[arob]

It's a closed curve.

[Pšenda]

And try break this? Break Curve on context toolbar.

[arob]

Tried it. Doesn't work. Making a rough edge around letters should be easy.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[Pšenda]

Try insert *.af... file.

[arob]

oh my what's that?

 

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, angier said:

 Making a rough edge around letters should be easy.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Only way I know of is this method.

[arob]

Thanks y'all for the suggestions. My ultimate goal is to mimic real calligraphy ink and rough pencil edges. I can't draw very well - but I want everything to look like I can.

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, angier said:

oh my what's that?

Because you didn't specify which application you're working on, I couldn't use a specific file extension (*.afphoto, *.afdesign, ".afpub).

[Alfred]

16 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Because you didn't specify which application you're working on, I couldn't use a specific file extension (*.afphoto, *.afdesign, ".afpub).

The topic title is “AD stroke won’t repeat”. 

[iconoclast]

This is in fact strange behaviour. I suppose it's a bug. As you can see on my screenshot, the outline of letters always get stretched brushstrokes, whereas other forms get brushstrokes as adjusted in the brushes-adjustment-panel. No matter if the letters and forms are converted to curves before. Can't see any logical reason for it.

 

[iconoclast]

Oddly, as I tried it again some minutes ago, with an unconverted letter, it worked. Verry strange! Will try it again tomorrow.

 

[Pšenda]

34 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

This is in fact strange behaviour.

It depends on the type of brush and its parameters, such as Head/Tail offset. Sometimes it helps if the closed curve breaks.

[iconoclast]

13 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

It depends on the type of brush and its parameters, such as Head/Tail offset. Sometimes it helps if the closed curve breaks.

But I used the same brush for all my samples above. With the same parameters. I only adjusted the thickness of the strokes after I applied them to the letters and forms. But that had no effect on the repeat- or stretch-effect.

As I made a new test some minutes ago, the problem appeared again. Even to break the curve didn't solve the problem. But it seems that, if I draw a curve-object before I write a letter and apply a brushstroke to it, it suddenly works pretty fine to even apply the brushstroke to letters. Doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. Think it's a bug. Will explore it tomorrow.

[arob]

ionoclast, the same thing happened to me. The repeat stroke in AD miraculously worked once and then never again. I think it's a bug as well.

[iconoclast]

1 minute ago, angier said:

ionoclast, the same thing happened to me. The repeat stroke in AD miraculously worked once and then never again. I think it's a bug as well.

Yes, i agree. I explored it this morning, and it worked exactly one time, after I created a curve before I wrote the letter and attached my special brush to it. After that it even didn't work this way again. Verry mysterious. Later this day I noticed another thing, which I don't know if it is somehow associated with this problem. Inspired by your calligraphy project, I created a brush, especially for edges. Then I used it for a letter, which resulted in our well known problem, then for a circle and a rectangle. I dragged both, the circle and the rectangle, from the upper left to the lower right, and attached the same brush with the same parameters to it. You can see the result on the attached screenshot. Seems that the curves of this two forms have the opposite direction.

By the way, is there any opportunity to change the direction of the curves?

Have you already wrote a bug-report?

 

 

[Pšenda]

28 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

By the way, is there any opportunity to change the direction of the curves?

"Reverse curve" in Context toolbar?

[iconoclast]

23 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

"Reverse curve" in Context toolbar?

Thanks for the hint! Haven't seen it yet.

[arob]

I've never written a bug report before. Because I'm in and out of Affinity programs I don't trust myself to truly know if it's a bug or something I've done wrong or just can't see what is right in front of me to fix the problem. FYI: I LOVE THAT BRUSH YOU MADE!!! It looks perfect for lettering projects.

 

[iconoclast]

OK, I will write the bug report. If it isn't a bug, the developers will tell.

I attached the brush. Made it with ArtRage. Test it out. Hope it works.

AquaEdge.afbrushes

[arob]

Oh. I love you. Thank you for the brush

 

[arob]

Iconclast,  So I adjusted the brush a bit (see the attached). As you can see the result isn't exactly what I'm looking for but it's getting there. I think you put me on the right track with the brush you made. It's a lot of time and work creating extra outline shapes to try and make this lettering project work. As you can see, the strokes have to be laid on top of the letter. I hope they fix this bug soon. Thanks everyone for your input and suggestions!!!

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