Winding rule

[amoore]

Hey, it was probably your stomach typing.

[handrawn]

maybe - it is 17.30 here - bit of friday afternoon syndrome too

[BTW: had it been 2 months ago it would have been oops no-L ]

[Egg Bramhill]

This food fills the areas within the lines...

Something fishy here!

[handrawn]

quite possibly food for thought...

[Egg Bramhill]

Love it steve!

[wuerthne]

Can one change the winding rule in XXP?

The attached wee xar file shows what I mean, I hope. There's a transparent bit where the two legs overlap. I recall from my old Acorn days, using !Draw (or was it !DrawPlus?) where you could change the winding rule, choosing from 3 options, one of which was "even-odd" -- can't remember the others.

The Draw application only has two options: Even-odd and non-zero. The RISC OS Draw module also supports positive and negative winding rules, so there are four in total, but Draw and ArtWorks only allow even-odd and non-zero.

Xtreme supports even-odd and non-zero winding rules internally and as properties stored in documents, so it should work as expected when you import from PDF, but there is no user interface in Xtreme to actually see and change the winding rule applied to a shape. I suppose it was decided to be too technical.