Can anyone identify a funny property with these shapes?

[David.P]

There are two vector shapes in the attached file that behave strangely during further processing. I can't figure out why though.

If these shapes are exported e.g. as SVG and then imported and further processed in PowerPoint, then PowerPoint converts them to bitmaps sooner or later, at the latest when printing from PowerPoint to PDF.

This always happens with these two shapes, whereas all other vector shapes are never converted to bitmaps even when printing them to PDF from PowerPoint

Do any of you know what strange special property these two shapes have so that this always happens?

'strange' shapes.afdesign

[thatGuy]

From my (admittedly limited) experience with vectors in powerpoint I'm not convinced it works very well in this regard,

I cleaned the shapes up a bit where there were overlapping nodes or the like, maybe that's a problem.

'strange' shapes.afdesign

[Old Bruce]

Utterly unfamiliar with Power Point so I can't say why it is converting the shapes. However the two shapes are actually three curves, one is a curve layer the second is a curves layer. That may be part of it. You can go to Layer > Geometry > Separate Curves to make it into two curve layers.

[David.P]

Thanks very much. For some reason, now I can't seem to reproduce the problem with these shapes anymore at the moment.

I'll report back as soon as I find out more, or when I come across such 'funny' shapes again.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

However the two shapes are actually three curves, one is a curve layer the second is a curves layer.

Also, all three shapes are open curves. Maybe that is part of it too?