Expand stroke still sucks

[zstekovic 28]

Yeah, any kind of response/information about this subject from Affinity Designer team would be nice.

[ajharok 14]

When can we expect this to be solved and work as it should? It's a real show stopper 

[Oval 451]

On 6. Februar 2019 at 12:10 PM, ajharok said:

When can we expect this to be solved and work as it should?

Hopefully 2019 because:

Vítor Galvão: “Will 2019 bring any of: […] Fixing expand stroke” | Matt Priestley: “I'm hoping to sort out the expand stroke and boolean operations issues”

[FedeG26 1]

On 2/8/2019 at 12:29 AM, Oval said:

Hopefully 2019 because:

Vítor Galvão: “Will 2019 bring any of: […] Fixing expand stroke” | Matt Priestley: “I'm hoping to sort out the expand stroke and boolean operations issues”

Any news from users that tried 1.7 beta? Is this fixed?

[walt.farrell 3,432]

Just now, FedeG26 said:

Any news from users that tried 1.7 beta? Is this fixed?

No, not yet.

[dsnaps12 15]

I think it might be in the Feature Request discussion but the expand stroke bug is on the radar Affinity responded. I just hope they squeeze it in for 1.7.

[Busenitz 61]

It has been in the request list since the early days (2014) At first they were saying it would be soon, but the longer it goes, the further out it seems to be.  I miss my CorelDRAW days.  But I went Mac and now CorelDRAW has a Mac Version (pro subscription, not an option)  So I'm thankful to have a lot of what I need in AD

 

[Busenitz 61]

It has been in the request list since the early days (2014) At first they were saying it would be soon, but the longer it goes, the further out it seems to be.  I miss my CorelDRAW days.  But I went Mac and now CorelDRAW has a Mac Version (pro subscription, not an option)  So I'm thankful to have a lot of what I need in AD

 

[ajharok 14]

Can we please have this fixed?!?!

[Busenitz 61]

They are working on a Release Candidate (Beta 1.7.0.14) and it's still not on the radar.

[Elvys 0]

Same problem here... Is anybody listening??

[Oval 451]

On 21. Juni 2019 at 8:57 PM, Elvys said:

Same problem here... Is anybody listening??

We just read and read and read … the same lame(nts).

[dsnaps12 15]

I got a response today on the Affinity Facebook page about the expand stroke issues. The response was "it's something our developers are still actively looking into."

[MEB 8,179]

Hi Elvys,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Yes, we are listening and aware this is something that must be reviewed/fixed as soon as possible. Now that v1.7 of Photo and Designer are out as well as Publisher we should get back to regular updates/fixes soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you all. Thanks for your support/understanding.

[dsnaps12 15]

@MEB Thanks for the update. Hopefully, this fix is on the top of the list.

[dsnaps12 15]

The latest update I saw in the forums here is it's being worked on for Beta 1.8. There were examples posted of the improvement.

[Busenitz 61]

@dsnaps12 Where is this in the forum?  Not finding it.

 

[dsnaps12 15]

@Busenitz it was locked last week. Looks like it was deleted because one person was accusing Affinity of lying. It was getting kind of heated. Affinity developer MattP had posted in there going back and forth with this one person and had mentioned he was working on ver 1.8 testing the expand stroke with a comparison screenshot.

 

[debraspicher 52]

3 hours ago, dsnaps12 said:

@Busenitz it was locked last week. Looks like it was deleted because one person was accusing Affinity of lying. It was getting kind of heated. Affinity developer MattP had posted in there going back and forth with this one person and had mentioned he was working on ver 1.8 testing the expand stroke with a comparison screenshot.

 

I believe it. The admins are usually forthcoming about things they are working on during beta. Everyone has opinions about how Affinity is progressing. I still have my gripes about the brush engine, but my opinions more niche. Improvements have been made, especially with performance. Oh and the GUI bugs in Windows. It's not meant to be a painting master's program anyway. My main gripe being that with all the flexibility of the engine, we're still not able to really blend to a "pro" degree, even for minor pieces. It's painfully slow and a bit unpredictable as far as the quality that can be achieved, but it's definitely improved albeit over the years. The expand stroke bug is more than a QoL issue so I'm glad it is finally being worked on. Sucks that people are being so rude to staff though...

[haakoo 660]

It isn't deleted

 

[Spiro 2]

any update about the fix of this bug?

[AdrianB 36]

14 minutes ago, Spiro said:

any update about the fix of this bug?

Seems like 1.8 might be on to something, as haakoo posted above, just follow the link. 

[smithclarkson01 0]

Well this bug actually sucks....wonder when they are going to fix it...! 

[MEB 8,179]

Hi smithclarkson01,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
We hope to have this fixed for the next version (1.8).

[Busenitz 61]

Any clue on when the 1.8 will be in beta?  Seems like it's been quiet for awhile