Expand Stroke Issues

[Darner]

Hi

Be great for coming update with the ability to expand strokes, also when multiple strokes are grouped.
As of now, it seems like they have to be ungrouped before expanding works.

[Gripsholm Lion]

Fair point. We can still multi-select within an expanded group and then apply it once – but that does become inconvenient with larger, or especially with nested, groups. I think that it may just be configured this way to reduce misunderstanding or oversight with mixed object types in one group.

[kevinmcsherry]

I can't get it to work at all for my purpose.

It seems that although you can expand a simple stroke 'Solid Line Style' you can't expand a 'Textured Line Style'.

Or can you? I want to put a textured stroke around an object (Curve), expand it and then 'Add' them together to make a more natural edge. 

[MEB]

Hi @kevinmcsherry,
You can't expand textured line styles in Designer because they are not true vector brushes but bitmaps that are stretched or repeated along a vector path. Bitmaps cannot be expanded.
If you double click one of the brushes in Designer Brushes panel you can see the texture/bitmap used in the bottom part of the dialog.

[kevinmcsherry]

Thanks for clearing that up MEB. What I wanted was to create a less perfect shape in a vector art project (attached). I suppose the workaround would be to draw the objects manually in real ink on paper and vectorise them.

[MEB]

Or you can also search for free vector textures (brush strokes, grunge backgrounds, splat textures etc) and use them as textures clipped to objects with blend modes or as masks do distort the shapes contours etc to gave it a more organic feeling.

[kevinmcsherry]

Thanks again MEB. I'll look at that link. 
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