Grouped contour has incorrect origin when moved

[Paul Mc]

Hi everyone, if I apply a contour to some text and then group it, when the group is moved the contoured text origin seems to move as well. In addition is seems to apply a mask or clipping effect of the expected silhouette to the new outline. This effect also happens with copy and paste of the group to a new location. I'm pretty sure that this isn't expected behaviour. Convert to curves prevents this from happening but I need the text to remain editable. Also an Fx outline creates a similar effect, however I need this to stay as a vector design. It behaves the same in 2.5.5 and also 2.6 beta. All on Windows 10. Am I misunderstanding how this should work? Any thoughts on how I can prevent the additional offset?

 

 

[HCl]

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[Paul Mc]

Thanks @Return 

I think that the offset of the element is being applied twice when it is moved within a group. By default it should be locked to the origin of the group, no?

Adding a stroke to the text should work and that's probably what I will have to do if this takes a while to resolve. Although I didn't use this in this example, I already have a stroke on the text in my work case. This is to create a clear gap (in the print-ready artwork) between the contour and the text, a bit like a hard-edged drop shadow.

More experimentation is probably in order.

[HCl]

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