Expand Stroke from a textured line

[Emeric]

Hi,

I'm working on a project and i need to create some shapes with textured lines.
I'm currently exporting my file to be printed, and i need to "vectorize" these shapes.

Apparently it cannot be done, as when i select this line, go to Layer > Expand stroke, the selected object is unselected and nothing is applied/modified.

So i was wondering how can i be able to "Expand Stroke" to prevent my shape to be just a line, but a plain shape ?

Thank you

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinit forums, @Emeric.

Textured strokes are made with Affinity's vector brushes, which are not true vectors but are instead pixel images stretched along a vector path. Therefore, as they are not actually vector shapes, they cannot be Expanded.

 

[Emeric]

Ok that's a bummer.

But thanks for the answer 👍

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[v_kyr]

18 hours ago, Emeric said:

and i need to "vectorize" these shapes

Try a tracer/bitmap-to-vectorizer instead to get a bunch of shapes out of that.

[Emeric]

I switch black to AI to do that but do you know of an online tool or program to per form this task ?

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, Emeric said:

I switch black to AI to do that but do you know of an online tool or program to per form this task ?

 

[Emeric]

Thanks a lot🙏