dr_who Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 I recently noticed that expanding a stroke results in quite a bit of nodes defining the curvature. I'm wondering if this behavior is intentional or am I doing something wrong? To me, the resulting curvature looks smooth but one'd assume less nodes would be needed for rendering basic circle alike shapes. I realize this may be a redundant inquiry but as I've grown to rely on expanded strokes quite heavily, it'd be good to know if I'm performing the expansion properly and not just making a mess of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Believe me this is an improvement. vonBusing and Mithferion 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_who Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 12 hours ago, evtonic3 said: Believe me this is an improvement. An improvement compared to what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 To what it used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_who Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 So this is how it's supposed to be (i.e. not a bug)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 No bug, but not really acceptable results. The Affinity team is concious about the necessity to re-engineer this feature, but hadn‘t actually the time to do this. If you search this forum for „expand strike“, you‘ find tons of threads concerning this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_who Posted December 8, 2017 Author Share Posted December 8, 2017 I see. I hope they've made it a high priority since it's such a core feature. Somewhere I saw a post claiming it also affects the smoothness of the curvature at small sizes and can be somewhat remedied by scaling the shape up considerably prior to expanding. I have to do more experimenting to see how much of a problem it really is but it does inject the kind of uncertainty into you I'd rather not deal with while trying to concentrate on the artwork itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 And you haven't tried to expand a very tiny stroke... Best regards! AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_who Posted December 8, 2017 Author Share Posted December 8, 2017 If you export straight to PDF without expanding the stroke first, it gets worse... Is there any workaround for this? The strokes seem to get converted to shapes regardless of the output format. LCamachoDesign 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goner__ Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Try enlarging the object significantly before expanding the stroke and then downsizing it back to the required dimensions. Often helps with expand stroke issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCamachoDesign Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 16 hours ago, dr_who said: If you export straight to PDF without expanding the stroke first, it gets worse... Is there any workaround for this? The strokes seem to get converted to shapes regardless of the output format. I've reported this over a year ago I believe, still not fixed... o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_who Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 Well, at the very least it's something you should be aware of that if you don't expand your strokes prior to exporting to a non-native format, you're going to end up with a massive amount of nodes. And even if you do, your geometry is still not optimal. Can only image what happens if your work is comprised of a lot of small, complex strokes. The worst case scenario is, your only option is to manually redraw the shapes on top of your original strokes. It's truly a sad state of affairs if this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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