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Error: Thin Line surrounding objects that is not a stroke and cannot be removed.


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I’ve lost nearly a day of work trying to fix this issue, and am not ready to give up on it yet. I would really appreciate the help of some of the Affinity Gurus with this issue, as it is driving me crazy. I’m using the latest version of Affinity Designer on Mac. I’m working on a vector illustration of a shark. and I’ve attached a sample of the project I’m working on below, along with some screenshots.

 
If you look at the gills, on one layer (gills erase), I’ve used an erase to punch through to the green. Then, I’ve duplicated that layer on top, change the erase to normal and used it as a container for a vector texture. Unfortunately, I cannot get rid of a hairline thin stroke around the border of the shape. Only it isn’t a stroke, as the stroke is deactivated. More of a border that maintains it’s size as you zoom in and out. I though this could just be affinity showing me the outline of the shape, but this unwanted out carries through to the export. 
 
You can see exactly the same effect between the layers ‘lower side’ and ‘upper side’. This line is the same size no matter how much you zoom in or out, and again, it carries over to the export.
 
I’ve researched extensively on the forums, and found no fix so far. Some similar suggestions hinted at an issue with anti-aliasing, but I’m not sure that it the issue. Any help on this would be really appreciated.

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Select the Gills erase layer, click on the blend ranges cog and In the blend ranges, reset the coverage and then drag the right upper node down to the bottom, you should have a flat line now.

If you want to get rid of the the line between the upper side and lower side layers you can do similar only this time in coverage raise the bottom left node to the top, the line should disappear.

Gills erase
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Upper side
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45 minutes ago, IncognitoMode said:

Thanks so much First Defence! That is the second time you've come to the rescue.

Your welcome.

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  • 2 years later...

@firstdefence I have been looking everywhere for this answer! This ALMOST solves all my issues. My problem comes when trying to tile vector patterns.

In this image you can see all the "hairlines" where the tiling is:

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Using your method above I am able to eliminate the "hairlines" but then all the objects look alot rougher. See the image below:

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Any chance a person could get the best of both worlds??

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16 minutes ago, Doubtfiire said:

Using your method above I am able to eliminate the "hairlines" but then all the objects look alot rougher.

Yes, because you canceled the anti-aliasing.
Position and size of patterns is in whole pixels?

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