Subtraction vector points artifacts

[ad1066]

It's funny because if you turn the line to editable shape it doesn't show this.

There's the key, convert to shape before you subtract. With the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S), it's hardly any more work at all, certainly a lot less work than cleaning up the extra nodes.

-- Ben

[handrawn]

you need 'convert line to shape' Ben

ctrl+shift+S is 'convert to editable shapes' - works on quick shapes and text etc but not on unclosed lines - there is no standard key shortcut for 'convert line to shape' but you can set one in pro version

[RE-EDIT - I get what appear to be inconsistant results using ctrl+shift+s ]

[wizard509]

I've been trying over and over and re-reading your post and unfortunately cannot seem to duplicate your problem. I seem to recall that sometimes I have run into that problem, but not consistently, and when I did I don't know what caused it, nor can I really remember anything about it. Just for your information I tried subtracting using CTRL2, slicing, elliptical line, everything but they all worked as expected.

[steps]

Thanks for all the help. Yeah, I will just convert it to a shape because I do this a lot creating cartoon characters in Designer Pro. It is a lot of work to zoom in and clean up those few extra vector points. But I understand that it is a line instead of a shape, so I'll convert it before subtracting. Thanks again.

[ad1066]

you need 'convert line to shape' Ben

ctrl+shift+S is 'convert to editable shapes' - works on quick shapes and text etc but not on unclosed lines - there is no standard key shortcut for 'convert line to shape' but you can set one in pro version

[RE-EDIT - I get what appear to be inconsistant results using ctrl+shift+s ]

I stand corrected. Absolutely right, with XDP one can set a keyboard shortcut to Convert Line to Shape (I just did, in fact. Ctrl+Shift+X was free at the time).

-- Ben