Expand Stroke - Affinity Designer

[ducapb]

Using Affinity Designer V2. I have an urgent project to deliver this week. But expanding the route is being the problem.

This did not happen in version 1.
The big problem: I can no longer find v1 to get around this.

I have to make a delivery this week and I need it. How to solve this problem?

 

[Hangman]

Hi @ducapb and welcome to the forums,

This unfortunately is a known bug logged under AF-3277 awaiting a fix which I appreciate is of little comfort with a deadline looming...

The current advice from Serif is, "If you wish you can 'roll back' to the previous version and use 2.4.2 until our team has fixed this issue in a future update. However please do note that your documents saved in 2.5.x may not be backwards compatible and can show an error when attempting to open in a previous version of the Affinity apps, unfortunately, we cannot change this behaviour."

I don't know if this is an option for you...

[ducapb]

26 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Hi @ducapb and welcome to the forums,

This unfortunately is a known bug logged under AF-3277 awaiting a fix which I appreciate is of little comfort with a deadline looming...

The current advice from Serif is, "If you wish you can 'roll back' to the previous version and use 2.4.2 until our team has fixed this issue in a future update. However please do note that your documents saved in 2.5.x may not be backwards compatible and can show an error when attempting to open in a previous version of the Affinity apps, unfortunately, we cannot change this behaviour."

I don't know if this is an option for you...

I managed to download V1, I remembered that I had bought it from the Microsoft Store.

I had to redo the entire lineart project, even if it's just a curve, it's not compatible between the other versions.

I wish I hadn't even done the rework, but I already solved it by going back to V1... just to use curve expansion.

Hoping that the expansion of curves in V2 will be solved. Thanks!

[Hangman]

@ducapb,

Glad to hear you have a resolution to meet your deadline… fingers crossed this bug will be resolved in the next release…

[ducapb]

And I don't know if it helps, or if it's useful for developers.

But I noticed that, when copying the curve without expansion from V2 and pasting it to V1, the same problem happens.

Even copying without expanding the curve in V2 and pasting it in V1, what happens here is as if it had expanded in V2.

[ducapb]

The curve expansion issue still persists in update 2.5.5.

Update 2.5.5 only got even worse in working with lines, now it seems that the lines cut in the middle.

Which is sad. Because Affinity Designer is a fully vector program, and this tool error is hard to swallow.

It's been like this for months, and the update has only made the curve expansion worse.