Expanding Strokes

[chirpy]

Hey all,

After drawing some strokes in Designer, I sometimes need to expand them for editing. Sometimes when I do this I get weird results. I am attaching a screenshot. The stroked path is perfectly smooth, but when I expand it Designer makes a weird angle at the place where the smooth curve should be.

Anyone know how this can be fixed, or is it a bug?

[chirpy]

PS. I should also mention that this same thing occurs when exporting the document to PDF or EPS without expanding the strokes! This is not good!

[Callum]

Hi Chirpy,

If possible could you provide the file in question so I can try replicating this here at my end?

Thanks
C

[Kylian00]

Please send the image in file format.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Kylian00
By mistake send

[chirpy]

Attaching Designer file

strokes.afdesign

[Pšenda]

Same object (copy), but bigger.

Notice the Sharp nodes in the middle that was created on the smooth curve!
Isn't this a problem with the "size" of the objects - was it before that the objects had to be enlarged, perform the required operation, and then shrink back to the correct size?

 

[chirpy]

2 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Same object (copy), but bigger.

Notice the Sharp nodes in the middle that was created on the smooth curve!
Isn't this a problem with the "size" of the objects - was it before that the objects had to be enlarged, perform the required operation, and then shrink back to the correct size?

If that's true, that is a huge issue. You can zoom in to like 1,000,000% in Designer and draw stuff. No matter what the size of a stroke is, you should be able to draw it in place and then expand it and have it look exactly the same. If I have to keep enlarging and then reducing all of my stroke objects I am going to go insane. Particularly if they are clipped inside other objects.

[Pšenda]

For interest - I made a significant reduction of the object, for which the Expand stroke was performed perfectly fine.

 

Expand stroke creates a weird artifact at the wider end of the line, but the shape is still smooth.

Upon further significant reduction of the object,

after performing the Expand stroke, the object disappears completely - it remains displayed in the layers panel, but neither the Move tool nor the Node tool shows anything on the desktop, and even double-clicking on its thumbnail does nothing.