retrograde Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Hi team, would love to see this addressed soon. Way too many nodes on expanded strokes still. Is this being looked into? To make files airtight when sending out to either clients or printers, I always expand all of my strokes so there are no chances of logo or illo strokes being enlarged or reduced if not set to scale with the object... the current amount of nodes generated is not ideal. See attached. Cheers. Matthias, teniedo23 and ronnyb 3 http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
DrPocter Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I have the same problem. Although the expanded strokes are precise, I'm sure the same shape could be done with fewer nodes.
Staff MattP Posted February 26, 2015 Staff Posted February 26, 2015 I haven't had chance to look at this for some time, but I do have a better way of doing it - hopefully I can get back to all of this fundamental stuff in the near future :) Sorry about this in the meantime... :(
retrograde Posted February 26, 2015 Author Posted February 26, 2015 Awesome news and no worries Matt, I know you are taking care of other stuff. ;) Just thought I'd bring it up again as I just noticed it again myself with the latest beta. http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
laneallen Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I've been running into this as well. One bad case was creating a circle => use pen pressure to vary stroke => expand stroke. The exterior points were fairly ideal, but I probably had well over 10000+ points on the interior of a simple shape. I recreated it by subtracting one circle over the other and it was much cleaner.
thedrewdarrow Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 I have a similar issue, regarding the "Expand Stroke" functionality. I typed out two letter: J and D I did a "Convert to Curves" for the letter D I added a stroke to the letter D of a different color I then selected "Expand Stroke" the stroke does not line up with the original letters (now curve version) edges... I have no idea how to upload thumbnails/images for increased communication on this issue. note: I am using the trial version, if that makes a difference.
Staff MEB Posted March 10, 2015 Staff Posted March 10, 2015 Hello thedrewdarrow, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) We are aware of the issues with the Expand Stroke command :( As MattP pointed out above, he will take a look at it as soon as he has some time. Please bear with us while we work on it. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Mikaela Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Was just wondering if the expand stroke/too many nodes (simplify path) issue has been solved yet? Couldn't find a link in the index road map where this was discussed. Thanks
Staff MEB Posted August 28, 2015 Staff Posted August 28, 2015 Hi Mikaela, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, it wasn't solved yet. It's still being worked on. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
ianrobertdouglas Posted May 24, 2016 Posted May 24, 2016 In general, is there is a good way to reduce the number of nodes in a curve? Right now, I'm recreating things.
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