jorgesarcos Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 When is this being fixed? im on the verge of asking for a refund... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 … after how many years of using Affinity Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 ? Expand stroke broken forever ? How so? I frequently expand thousands of stroke objects, and can use the results as I like, boolean operations mostly. Are you referring to the sometimes immense number of nodes generated? The smoothing option does not reduce the number of nodes dramatically, and can distort the edge shape. The only thing I can compare it to is Inkscape, which works a little better w. lesser numbers of nodes, and worse with equally large number of nodes. My recollection of what Corel could do about 15 years ago was that it worked better to reduce nodes, but only after tweaking parameters. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 The ‘Expand Stroke’ feature works quite poorly with very small objects, but if you enlarge them by a factor of 16 or 32 and then shrink them back down again after expansion you’ll generally get a good result. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgesarcos Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 11 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: The ‘Expand Stroke’ feature works quite poorly with very small objects, but if you enlarge them by a factor of 16 or 32 and then shrink them back down again after expansion you’ll generally get a good result. Nope... tried several times, it just gives wack results 50% of the time at any size Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 I looked at some of the stuff I've been doing w. expanded dashed strokes. Indeed, small dotted strokes, at .24 pt are turned to irregular shapes. Square ones don't, FWIW. So I tried αℓƒяє∂'s enlarge and contract method. See attachment. A plus sign at 12 pt, dotted dash line expanded on the left. On the right, the same character scaled up 16X. In between, the 16X scaled down by .06. Seems to retain the irregularities in the enlarged version, but much better than the one expanded from the base. I wouldn't expect this work around to be a permanent feature. Its just a sort of sticky window frame in a house that still has some rooms only framed. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 3 hours ago, jorgesarcos said: Nope... tried several times, it just gives wack results 50% of the time at any size Any demonstration? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyO Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Im getting some oddities with expanding strokes also. Mainly when drawing with the pencil and pressure curves and using the butt-cap and bevel-join stroke types. Hard to explain the oddities, so i posted a screenshot, but mainly these happen with thicker strokes and when drawing tight rounded curves and tight angled points. I don't get any problem when expanding long sweeping strokes, only when the strokes "overlap themselves" if that makes any sense. Quote Art director by day, illustrator by night: Check Out My Shutterstock Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 @TonyO You don't have a female bum in your shutter stock gallery lol! TonyO 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchDude Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 On 8/17/2018 at 7:20 PM, gdenby said: ? Expand stroke broken forever ? How so? I frequently expand thousands of stroke objects, and can use the results as I like, boolean operations mostly. Are you referring to the sometimes immense number of nodes generated? The smoothing option does not reduce the number of nodes dramatically, and can distort the edge shape. The only thing I can compare it to is Inkscape, which works a little better w. lesser numbers of nodes, and worse with equally large number of nodes. My recollection of what Corel could do about 15 years ago was that it worked better to reduce nodes, but only after tweaking parameters. Yeah. Must have been 20 years ago. CorelDraw on windows had a really functional "reduce nodes" algorythm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 I now use Illustrator CS5 kind of like a plug-in for this purpose plus a few other things that Designer can't currently do - if I expand something in designer and it produces a billion nodes I usually copy paste into Illustrator - Object - Path - Simplify - adjust curve precision settings around 97-99% and it does a brilliant job at keeping the curve quality but drastically reducing nodes - copy paste back into Designer - it plugs the gap a treat Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 8 hours ago, bandass said: Ugh, sorry for that delay, I got tied up Are you in the right thread? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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