lukepighetti Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 On Affinity Designer 1.7.1 for macOS, If you make a circle, give it a fill and a stroke, and then do "expand stroke", you don't end up with a circle. You end up with a pet rock. Before After Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 This is a long-time known issues that, hopefully, will be addressed in the following months. Best regards! Callum and lukepighetti 1 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepighetti Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 Is this officially in the backlog or are you just hoping it will get fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 That issue appear more obvious in small scale - as a workaround work in 10:1 scale. BUT for whatever reason you need either a contour and expanded strokes?? A simple color filled circle will just convert fine into curves at any scale. Cheers Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 55 minutes ago, lukepighetti said: Is this officially in the backlog or are you just hoping it will get fixed? We only have access to what the Dev Team members say, and they are weel aware of this and will work on it. What I am hoping is that it will be addressed in the dollowing months, since we don't know: Technically, how complex to fix this is. Exact to-do list of Matt Priestley, the person that will focus on this. Best regards! adirusf 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Here is the latest I could find on this subject. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2019 Hi lukepighetti, BofG, As said above, we are already aware of this issue. This is being looked at/reviewed. We hope to have a fix in an upcoming version (no eta). I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you. Thanks for your understanding. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLC Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 To me it seems (without attempting to reverse-engineer the software) that Designer internally converts the vector outlines to a bitmap and attempts to trace it, since the results seems to be exactly the same as vector tracing small-resolution bitmap images in Inkscape... I still don't get why Designer doesn't (internally) enlarge such smaller objects 10 or 100 times, do the conversion, and then resize them back. I guess it'd be better than directing users to do this routine by themselves... At least as a temporary pseudo-fix until Affinity devs find out how to do the expansion properly... since even in high-resolutions, the outline expansion is nearly never exactly the same as the original outline. Quote Why relying on your users to report errors is the dumbest thing you’ll ever do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I suspect it’s just down to rounding errors in the maths, being that the smaller you go the more pronounced this becomes. I’d be very surprised if it was rasterising this and then tracing it. But I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Same guess here already - that´s why it´s not that obvious in larger scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepighetti Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Rounding issues shouldn't matter since Serif touts being able to work on infinitesimal details as a core feature. So asking it to expand a curve with a 6px diameter the same way it expands a 600px curve seems reasonable and the fact that it's been in the backlog for 4 years is yet another red flag against Serif. When I made this post I didn't realize it had been in the backlog for so long. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Why are you using a small ellipse filled with a stroke both the same colour, when a filled ellipse without a stroke would work better and not have the "pet rocks" issue (love that phrase lol!), it doesn't make much sense to me. lukepighetti 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...
lukepighetti Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Quick way to resize the ellipses in place when doing a design alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 43 minutes ago, lukepighetti said: Quick way to resize the ellipses in place when doing a design alternative. make one ellipse a symbol, duplicate the symbol and edit just one symbol to see all change lukepighetti 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...
lukepighetti Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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