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can anyone tell me why i get unwanted outline in Flexi?
Hi All
The following issue has bothered be for ages – there is a Beer Token awaiting anyone who can answer this.
Sometimes text objects within a design will have their path shown even when not selecetd. ie. a white letter will have a black keyline/outline that doesn’t cut and has no width if that makes sense – you can’t select it or delete it. For example if I have a letter "A" with a solid white fill which on screen is layered on top of a white background and the letter was not selected and I’d not added any outline etc. then I wouldn’t expect to be able to see the letter on screen, or if I printed this then I would expect a blank page. However, no matter what I do I can still see the keyline/outline?
This isn’t an issue when I’m cutting vinyl but it is a problem If I’m printing artwork for proofs, or exporting artwork as bitmaps as this keyline exports or prints along with the design.
I’m guessing this keyline is not a bug but serves to indicate something but I’m stuck as to what.
The line doesn’t initially show – ie. I’ll type some text as part of the design and it behaves as expected, but at some point thereafter it acquires the keyline – problem is I’ve not spotted when this happens!! Some text will have the keyline, some will not – also it’s not common to a specific font. I can have two letters on screen with identical attributes (as far as I can see) and yet one has the keyline and one does not.
Any comment appreciated. I’m using Flexi Pro 7.5
Cheers
Macky -
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I’m Saying this in a Victor Meldrew voice “I don’t beleive it!” – after puzzling over this for months I’ve just come across the solution.
I win the beer token – it gets even better!
Macky
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:lol1: Congratulations what a clever bunny you are!!
So … are you going to share what the answer is then??
😛
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me thinks you had a stroke outline, am I right for half the beer! 😀
John
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Hi John
It was simply stroke outlines – obvious you may think but I never ever show stroke outlines when I use Flexi. They can be handy but I just never show them – I’d actually discounted them as the cause because I never show them (doh).
Anyhow I have discovered something bug like in my copy of Flexi – If I type some text (script font) then apply a combination of outlines and distortion effects, then separate them and finally delete them (as individual steps), hey presto the text is left with stroke outlines in black – even though I’ve never changed this attribute. Very strange.
As for beer tokens then I will duly post a full beer token for you to print off in the next few days – this is non transferrable, lasts for the duration of Sign UK and will be exchanged for a cold one upon finding me.
Let me know if you are further south than Watford and I’ll change it to a SHANDY token. (hopefully that’ll get a bit og banter going on the boards today).
Cheers
MackyAnyhow
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DOOHHHH
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quote :As for beer tokens then I will duly post a full beer token for you to print off in the next few days – this is non transferrable, lasts for the duration of Sign UK and will be exchanged for a cold one upon finding me.
sounds like a challenge to me Macky, I will sniff you out, but its a full pint mind not one of those Northern beers all head and no liquid
:lol1:
John
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