Weird unwanted effect!

[jackamus]

In the attached file I have had to reproduce 'B' in its original form 'A' when drawn in AD V1. Can any one explain how it changed from being a stroke to a filled shape and how I can change it back from B to A again?

Stroke thicknes.afdesign

[NotMyFault]

Somewhere you have used „Expand Stroke“.
 

you can’t change it back easily. There is no reverse „un-expand“ function.

 

[jackamus]

Yes I realise that is what it looks like but there is no reason for me to do that when doing this kind of drawing. There are several places on different illustrations where this has happened. In one case I was able to to change it back to a single stroke.

This is something that has never happened before!

I cannot repeat how I changed it back again to correct in another place. Do you have any suggestions?

Would this show up in its History?

[firstdefence]

Actually I'm not sure expand stroke was used because if you expand the stroke of example A. it does not generate anywhere near as many node as there are in example B.

Saying that, do you have the expand stroke set with a keystroke in keyboard shortcuts that you may have inadvertently pressed?

Did you create these in an earlier version of Affinity because I know earlier versions of Affinity had a tendency to generate excessive nodes.

[jackamus]

No. When I want to use it I usually go to Layers>Expand Stroke.

Should I report this as a possible bug?

 

 

[firstdefence]

I can't imagine a curve would just expand itself and personally I've never heard this happen in any app I've ever used over the last, well lets say a lot of years, I really don't think it's a bug because bugs are repeatable and usually get reported by multiple people. The only way to know what happened would have been to look at the history prior to the expansion but if the file has been closed since the history will be lost.

I would have to suggest you put this down to the universe messing with you as there is no way to be able to recreate the event and unless others come forward with a similar happening it will simply be a unique unexplainable occurrence. 

[firstdefence]

Image is just to show the difference between when I expanded the stroke in example A. compared to how example B has been rendered.

[jackamus]

54 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

I can't imagine a curve would just expand itself and personally I've never heard this happen in any app I've ever used over the last, well lets say a lot of years, I really don't think it's a bug because bugs are repeatable and usually get reported by multiple people. The only way to know what happened would have been to look at the history prior to the expansion but if the file has been closed since the history will be lost.

I would have to suggest you put this down to the universe messing with you as there is no way to be able to recreate the event and unless others come forward with a similar happening it will simply be a unique unexplainable occurrence. 

Yes that's what I think however I will look to see if the History is still available.

[jackamus]

48 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Image is just to show the difference between when I expanded the stroke in example A. compared to how example B has been rendered.

 

Yes that is exactly how I would expect Expanded Stroke to work as in A but not in B. In your opinion what do you think B is telling you?

[firstdefence]

B. is telling me something weird has happened but what caused it is a moot point. Without history there is no clear answer, the way B. has unintentionally expanded is odd compared to how A. was expanded. I would say unless history exists, walk away from it and put it down to a glitch in the matrix.

If it happens again open the history panel up and screenshot it before closing.

[thomaso]

The multiple nodes in B. remind me to low quality tracing / vectorizing. … Similar to the nodes appearance with 'Edit Wrap Outline' in APub, whereas this function would not create the smooth curve of B. but rectangular steps for the resulting curve.

[jackamus]

23 hours ago, firstdefence said:

I can't imagine a curve would just expand itself and personally I've never heard this happen in any app I've ever used over the last, well lets say a lot of years, I really don't think it's a bug because bugs are repeatable and usually get reported by multiple people. The only way to know what happened would have been to look at the history prior to the expansion but if the file has been closed since the history will be lost.

I would have to suggest you put this down to the universe messing with you as there is no way to be able to recreate the event and unless others come forward with a similar happening it will simply be a unique unexplainable occurrence. 

When a file is saved does its History get saved as well? If the file is opened and the History is empty how would that have happened?

[GarryP]

The History is only saved with the document if you have “Save History With Document” checked in the File menu.

If you open a document and there is no History then that menu item was probably not checked when the document was last saved.