Knife tool doesn't work with fonts

[ℓurié]

Hello,

I've found a bug. The Knife tool doesn't work correctly with fonts, even after converting them to curves. As also reported by another user, the bug only happens when I use Shift for straight line. With freehand mode it's ok.

With the other shapes I haven't noticed any problems for now.

Thanks for your attention.

Knife Bug 1.afdesign Knife Bug 2.afdesign Knife Bug 3.afdesign

[AffinityMakesMeWonder]

FYI - the above problem with Knife Tool doesn't effect Designer on MAC...

Works like a charm on both Mac and my iPad Pro 12.9" M1...

[Komatös]

@ℓurié

I also have no problems with the knife tool.

 

 

[ℓurié]

12 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

FYI - the above problem with Knife Tool doesn't effect Designer on MAC...

Works like a charm on both Mac and my iPad Pro 12.9" M1...

Hello @AffinityMakesMeSmile,
thanks for your reply.
Perhaps it's an exclusive bug for Windows users, because I'm not the first.
But thanks again.

[ℓurié]

11 hours ago, Komatös said:

@ℓurié

I also have no problems with the knife tool.

 

 

Hello @Komatös,

thanks for your reply.

But in your video I can see the same bug. Look carefully and let's analyze it.

The first cut leaves behind some curves. It's the line outside the fonts. The left side of & isn't cut. You can check this with the Node tool (press CTRL+Y to see if you use Windows).

The second cut only works with the left side of B. The right side of B and & aren't cut, despite you have selected all three elements.

A correct cut is this:

But I've noticed that it works correctly only with a straight fonts (A in the last video is totally straight). Instead, with the other shapes I haven't see any bugs for now.

Eventually sorry for my english and thanks for your attention.
 

[Komatös]

@ℓurié

Well, you are right. If I'm observing correctly, it seems to me that when you cut over or just short of nodes with the knife tool, the cut is skipped.

[nezumi]

I have posted about this bug too in other thread. In my experience its not about fonts - its about straight line. Try to use knife tool without shift, just freehand cut through font/objects. If you use knife tool on its own, without shift all should be fine. Kindly let me know if this is the case for you too.

[ℓurié]

12 hours ago, nezumi said:

I have posted about this bug too in other thread. In my experience its not about fonts - its about straight line. Try to use knife tool without shift, just freehand cut through font/objects. If you use knife tool on its own, without shift all should be fine. Kindly let me know if this is the case for you too.

Hello @nezumi,

thank you too for your reply.

It looks like the same bug. As I specified above it only happens when I press SHIFT for straight cut (vertical, horizontal, 45° degree). But in my case it only happens with fonts, even after converting them to curves (only with the straight letters it's ok). With the other shapes I haven't noticed any issue for now.

Look this video:

Instead, with freehand mode it's ok with all shapes and all fonts.

[nezumi]

I didnt noticed - true. Same here. I can cut other shapes with straight line too, no problem here. Exactly like you say - just text is affected, both as text and even changed to curves.

[ℓurié]

Hello, I have some news.

Unfortunately I don't have much time, but I tried again and again. Unluckily the bug also affects the straight letters. But... I've noticed that it doesn't affect all font families. Look the next video:

I also tried with others font families and it seems that only some of these are affected.

I attach the file, but you can try with others font families.

Knife tool bug - Font Families.afdesign

[Mithferion]

It works well with Inter:

Best regards!

[Kasper-V]

I've had the same issue. So far I've only found it with text -- it doesn't happen with shapes, however complex. (As far as I've been able to find out.)

[Patrick B]

I am using an M1 iMac running macOS 11, and I'm able to replicate the problem on my end. As has been said, the bug seems to only occur when cutting a straight line (holding Shift) across curved paths, seemingly at specific areas. This only happens on curves that were converted from fonts, but not every font and not every glyph has this problem. Hope this gets fixed.

Edited November 17, 2022 by Patrick B
added the computer & OS I'm using for context

[EmT]

Hi @ℓurié
We are aware of this issue and I've passed over your example to the devs to help with their investigation.

@Patrick B We've currently only been able to replicate this issue on Windows, could you provide a screen recording of this issue in action on your mac so we can try to recreate it? 

[Patrick B]

4 hours ago, EmT said:

Hi @ℓurié
We are aware of this issue and I've passed over your example to the devs to help with their investigation.

@Patrick B We've currently only been able to replicate this issue on Windows, could you provide a screen recording of this issue in action on your mac so we can try to recreate it? 

Hi EmT,

Here are some screen recordings. I am working with the document "Knife Bug 1.afdesign" that OP posted.

[Patrick B]

I also noticed that when you are doing consecutive cuts in a particular direction, it won't let you cut back in the opposite direction (unless you select that area that has been cut). As seen here:

[ℓurié]

On 11/16/2022 at 2:13 PM, Mithferion said:

It works well with Inter:

Best regards!

Hi @Mithferion,

thanks for your info.

But unfortunately in my case I've found the same bug with this font family:

Greetings to you!

[ℓurié]

8 hours ago, EmT said:

Hi @ℓurié
We are aware of this issue and I've passed over your example to the devs to help with their investigation.

@Patrick B We've currently only been able to replicate this issue on Windows, could you provide a screen recording of this issue in action on your mac so we can try to recreate it? 

Hi @EmT

I'm glad to know it. Thank you very much!

[lepr]

Workaround is to scale the document to 1 pixel wide, do the operation, then scale the document back to original size.

That should give the devs a clue.

[SrPx]

Yep, perhaps common issue with the booleans and shapebuilder. For the record, just tested that also works the trick of 'clipboard->copy as svg' activated in preferences, "paste special" as svg (it also treats "holes" as expected, after making such copy).

[ℓurié]

It seems to work fine in the 2.1 Beta. Excellent work Serif 👌.