mcpete Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I've found that Affinity Designer's Expand Stroke function is pretty terrible. It creates way too many points on the path. I've also found that with lines that have had their pressure adjusted, the ends are expanded using corner node, so they loose the smooth curve of the original. I've included a screenshot to illustrate what I'm talking about. A 2 node straight line with rounded end caps is expanded to have 22 points. A straight line with the pressure adjusted is no better and the ends loose their curve and become sharp points. A curved line with adjusted pressure is just plain ridiculous. And there is no function to simplify the shape, so you can't get rid of all the extra point easily. Just don't expanded the stroke then? I wouldn't for an illustration normally, but when I want to make a SVG for web, I need to expand the strokes when I've adjusted the pressure because pressure adjustments don't translate into the SVG file. All the extra points ends up bloating the size the of the SVG and the pointed line ends look kind of crappy. I'd really love to see that improved. I'm loving Affinity Designer, especially after the 1.5 update. Keep it up – Pete Pixlers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixlers Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Yes, this point still holds me at the moment from using Affinity Designer for real projects. I really want to do more than just play around with it. :( Please take a look art the Astute Graphics Plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator and how grat the are at removing and adding point. These tasks play a very important role in the creation of vector graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 22, 2016 Staff Share Posted November 22, 2016 Hi Pixlers, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) We are aware of the issues with the Expand Stroke command. This will be improved in a future version/update. mikeswarts 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixlers Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Hi MEB, thank you for the warm welcome. That sounds great! B) MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpete Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 Glad to here that's on the roadmap. I was going to go back to using Illustrator but after using Affinity Designer, I didn't like using Ai's node/pen tools (the node are almost microscopic) as much as Affinity's. So as a work around, I'm actually designing in Affinity and any time I need to expand a stroke, I cut & paste into illustrator, expand it there and then cut & paste back into Affinity. Not ideal but it works enough that I don't have to completely switch back to illustrator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viterzbayraku Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Expand Stroke feature do not working for multiple selected elements inside groups. I must select every element, ungroup and expand it separately :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeswarts Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Would be SO nice to fix this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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