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Outlining Text - Contour tool method not working.

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R C-R

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4 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Your object is 800+ pixels high, so a tenth of a pixel is going to be invisible. I would doubt a fraction of a pixel to be visible on any stroke.

That does not explain why the text is invisible, since it still has a 100% opaque red fill color. When I try this with this Contour text fill issue.afdesign file, & set the radius to anything other than zero, the text becomes invisible if & only if I do this to the "Not OK" text layer in the Artboard. This does not happen with the "OK" layer that is not contained in the "Artboard1" layer, so I think it is a bug.

Another possible bug with this tool is that the status bar says I can use the Option key ⌥ to clone the object & apply the contour to it but that does not seem to be working for me.

EDIT: Also please note that both text layers are Artistic Text objects, not Frame Text objects, so this may be different from the previously reported bug(s) that occur with the Contour Tool & Frame Text objects. 

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1 hour ago, R C-R said:

That does not explain why the text is invisible, since it still has a 100% opaque red fill color. When I try this with this Contour text fill issue.afdesign file, & set the radius to anything other than zero, the text becomes invisible if & only if I do this to the "Not OK" text layer in the Artboard. This does not happen with the "OK" layer that is not contained in the "Artboard1" layer, so I think it is a bug.

Another possible bug with this tool is that the status bar says I can use the Option key ⌥ to clone the object & apply the contour to it but that does not seem to be working for me.

EDIT: Also please note that both text layers are Artistic Text objects, not Frame Text objects, so this may be different from the previously reported bug(s) that occur with the Contour Tool & Frame Text objects. 

Good catch! I just dragged my text layer off of my artboard and the text layer became visible again with the contour applied. Is there a proper way to report this as a bug?

Also, nice profile image. I've been reworking my way through Futurama and have it on in the background right now 😊

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