How to fill the area in between the strokes

[nullpointer]

I would like to have the transparent areas of this dragon svg be red and then overlay the black stroke.

Possible????

Thanks!

dragon-6810508.svg

[Aaron Martin]

This solution works in some cases (like this), the cases it doesn't work is:

• if the strokes aren't closed, causing unfilled gaps in the shape which depending on the complexity of the design, it can take lots of work to fix. 
   
• if the design are a mixture of strokes and fills, which in that case, when you add all the shapes together, you will have artifacts at the edge of the shape due to some shapes having transparent strokes, which, depending on your detail quality requirement, it may not be so clean. 
   

second issue with this solution is the erase blend mode, the problem with that is, as long as your not exporting it to other file formats, it works. But in cases where you need an SVG  or PDF export (or any other file format with vector requirement for that matter), you will have pixelated effect and that could be, not ideal. 
 

i think affinity should up their game in vector editing functionalities and add functions like:

• vector Knife tool
• vector stretch and mesh tool
• vector perspective tool
• vector fill shape maker
• pixel to vector convertor

than we won’t have any issues for fixing these and we won’t need to create complex workarounds (although the possibility of having so many ways to do one thing is a feat of its own, done by affinity amazingly flexible software)

7 hours ago, nullpointer said:

 

I would like to have the transparent areas of this dragon svg be red and then overlay the black stroke.

 

As for this issue, id also recommend anto’s solution except at the end, instead of creating an erase blend mode, i suggest to simply subtract that area from the filled backgroudn vector.   

[PixelPest]

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[nullpointer]

THANK YOU!

Much appreciated