AKSturb01 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 I have a very simple artistic text layer with a single word in it. It has a couple of layer effects applied. When I select the layer and attempt to Convert to Curves the program crashes instantly. No crash report. The file is attached. MYNAME.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted August 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2021 Hi AkSturb01, Thanks for letting us know - this is something we do have logged with development. In this case it is the underline in your text that is causing it to crash. Removing this will allow you to convert the text to Curves. I'll get your file passed on to development. AKSturb01 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSturb01 Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Sean P said: Hi AkSturb01, In this case it is the underline in your text that is causing it to crash. Removing this will allow you to convert the text to Curves. I'll get your file passed on to development. Thank you that works! And I can transform and edit the nodes WITH the 3D effects applied. Very cool. I can tell you gentlemen that you need the Envelope and Mesh Warp functionality. The 3D effect alone is almost worth the price of this software on artistic text. With mesh warping and envelope distort it would be ... awesome. Also if you could get it to export as vector objects we're talking nirvana here. Thank you again, here's my updated file without the underline. A MYNAME.afdesign Edited August 11, 2021 by AKSturb01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSturb01 Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) And I find that after converting to curves I can then REAPPLY the 3D layer effect and get even more power from it. Mesh warp...envelope...PLEASE. Lol. Where CorelDraw 2021 is sometimes invaluable to me is that it allows applying vector fills to text that has been converted to curves and then allows those kinds of distortions. Quick examples attached. MYNAME2.afdesign ABALONEY.pdf ABALONEY.eps ABALONEY.cdr Edited August 11, 2021 by AKSturb01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSturb01 Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Sean P said: Hi AkSturb01, Thanks for letting us know Finally for one day (I like this software and want to see it keep improving). I find also that even more splash can be added to text with the contour tool's many options in combination with the 3D layer effect. This is really pretty amazing for less than 10 minutes worth of work and if it was meshable/envelopeable and could export as a vector object - my goodness. Onward and upward, folks! MYNAME3.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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