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When I set my stroke alignment to "Align Stroke To Outside" I have VERY thin transparent line between the stroke and the fill. I'm assuming this is a bug because it's not thick enough of a line to actually be visually useful, yet it's just BARELY there enough to drive me OCD about it. Is there an easy setting fix for this? 

 

Thanks in advance :)

 

Update: no matter how far I zoom in, it still stays a super tiny line (very scientific vernacular, I know). Maybe this is related to having the stroke set to "scale with object" ?

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It's a function of the anti-aliasing algorithm between the foreground element and background...

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Hey Quarter, from what I've gleaned reading through the forums, it means it's part of the way Affinity blends or anti-aliases the edges of an object against its background... I believe the guys are aware of it, but not sure there's much to do about it...

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Hi Quarter,

 

Ronny is absolutely right that it's just a side-effect of an algorithm and will always remain hairline no matter how much you zoom in... It's also found in a lot of other vector drawing programs that provide an outer stroke alignment although I can definitely try to look at doing it differently in the future to remove the artefact. Often you can get the same effect you were after by setting the line to centre alignment, doubling its width and then choosing the 'Draw behind fill' option as the contents of the object often completely obscure the line that was drawn behind - but this isn't always practical.

 

Sorry about any inconvenience this causes you in the meantime :(

Matt

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