Problem with ClipView and lines

[Centaurus]

Thank you for this workaround.
Unfortunately it doesn't quite work for me, because I use quite a complex drawing (a character) as a clipping shape, and I try to overlay some color on it.
So what I do is I try to put a big colored rectangle with one of a blending mode and clip it using my character as a clipping shape.
And what happens is all the lines within the character are excluded from the clipping, which makes the whole thing useless.
I was trying to apply a contour to the character, or an empty live effect, hoping it would somehow group everything into one non-breakable shape, but unfortunately it doesn't work either.

aand on that basis you don't need to do the full routine I outlined in post #5

just cloning your outlined shape and converting the clone to shape with 'convert line to shape' and grouping should do it:




clts.xar


[apologies for three posts in a row ]