Expand Stroke Bug on Windows

[Fun Art Sam]

Hello,

I’ve been really enjoying Affinity V2. There are lots of great new features that make creating art so much fun.

There seems to be a bug, in the Windows version, when expanding strokes. I used the Pencil Tool, then the Stroke Width Tool, and then expanded the strokes. After expanding the strokes, the rounded stroke ends become pointy and distorted. 

The strokes look the same as the screenshot from the ‘Expand Stroke Bug’ post, found in the iPad version.

I noticed that the iPad’s bug is resolved after the 2.5.4 update. Will the Windows 2.5.4 update be available soon?

Thanks for your help!

 

[DWright]

Tis issue has been logged with our developers for the Windows version 

[Fun Art Sam]

@DWright Thanks for your help. Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. 

[Fun Art Sam]

I need to work at small sizes so I don't have to resize the glyphs in my font program. I've attached an example file showing the size I need the glyphs vs a bigger size. 

 

ExpandStrokeBugWindows.afdesign

[Alfred]

13 minutes ago, Fun Art Sam said:

I need to work at small sizes so I don't have to resize the glyphs in my font program.

The trick is to enlarge the objects by a factor of ten or more, expand the strokes and then shrink the expanded objects back down to their original size.

[Fun Art Sam]

@Alfred Thanks for your help, but that trick will cost me a lot of time with many glyphs. Affinity V1 does not have this bug, which I will go back to. 

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, Fun Art Sam said:

Affinity V1 does not have this bug

I’m sure I remember ‘Expand Stroke’ in version 1 of AD being every bit as bad as in version 2, if not worse.

[Fun Art Sam]

@Alfred I just tested this bug in Affinity V1, and there are no pointy and distorted ends on round strokes. There are minimal nodes too. 

[lepr]

18 hours ago, Fun Art Sam said:

Affinity V1 does not have this bug, which I will go back to. 

You could use 2.4.2 until the bug is fixed.

[Fun Art Sam]

@lepr Thanks for your help, but I don't understand how to go back to an older version of Affinity. There could be errors, with my 2.5 file, because it's not backwards compatible. I'll go back to Affinity V1, for now. 

[Fun Art Sam]

On 7/29/2024 at 5:04 PM, Alfred said:

The trick is to enlarge the objects by a factor of ten or more, expand the strokes and then shrink the expanded objects back down to their original size.

Alfred, thanks for your help!

I'm going to try your trick because I think it's better than going back to Affinity V1. I didn't think about shrinking ALL of the glyphs after I'm done creating them, which will save time. Plus, Affinity V2 is so much faster and accurate when drawing with a mouse instead of the Bezier tool!