Franck Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hi, I draw some strokes for a logo (look at the attached picture). I used strokes and changed the pressure to have different width along the line. The end of the stroke is round. I wanted to export my work in eps format to be able to print it ou use it with Illustrator... I saw in the eps file in illustrator that the round of my stokes became broken lines. Come back in AD, I decide to vectorise the stroke (layer menu). In french it's called "vectoriser le contour". And I obtain the same result : broken lines... Is it a normal behavior ? I also wonder why there are so many nodes (and no tools to simplify all those nodes). It's very difficult to change/adjust quickly the curve with so many useless nodes !! I hope my explanation is clear. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Franck, the Expand Stroke command in AD has been a problem from the initial release day. We keep hearing that it is in the process of being fixed, and will be soon. But it's been about a year and a half, sigh. But I'm sure it will be fixed soon. <_< Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franck Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 Thank you for the answer. I keep hope and I'm waiting for the next release :-) But it makes me keeping Illustrator for a moment for professional projects. I'm going to draw my logo again on Illustrator :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Before giving up on AD for this, you might try exporting the variable width stroke as a PDF file instead of as an EPS one. (For some background info on the differences between the two formats, Adobe's Postscript vs. PDF page may be of interest.) Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franck Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 I forget to precise this point. At first time, I tried to export as a PDF (printing settings), without expand the stroke. The result was the same as describe with the eps format. So I tried to select the strokes, to vectorise them and export as pdf... no way. Them I tried to export as eps and you know the end. But I still learn to work with AD and AP ;-) Thank you for the link to the adobe informations about Postscript vs PDF. I usually use PDF format for printing documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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