Ungrouped lines with arrowheads and transparency

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Strange transparency rendering behaviour when adding transparency to individual lines created with arrowheads.

This has probably been a forever thing, but have just bumped into it again when fading parts of a flow build.

If you create a single line with an arrowhead (curve layer) and change the layer transparency, designer renders the line and arrowhead as individual objects, which given that they are overlayed to prevent gapping creates a more dense area where the line meets the arrowhead.

Work around is to group the object… which seems like an odd thing to need to do for a curve line that should behave as a single object.

I can't think of an application where I would want/expect the current standard behaviour.

 

[loukash]

Unfortunately it's a very old issue, se here for the record a few old threads on the topic:

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Thanks, I did go searching and my chosen words revealed nothing so I thought I'd put it out there… just in case! At least there is a work around - just a frustration to require it.

Sorry to double/triple up. Also affects expanding stroke - creating holes in the overlap.

No need for any further comments, just nice for it to be addressed at some point.

[stokerg]

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As @loukashhas pointed out, this issue is already known and logged with the Developers.

I've left a link on that report back to this thread so you'll get a notification from the Serif Info Bot when this has been resolved