I also have 12 and simply does behave exactly as you describe. I have found Power Clipping solves problems when other methods don't. In fact in my experiment with two dark red filled circles, one converted to a power clip container, same size on both, I could change the fill on both the unclipped sphere and the rectangle filled with a gradient into my Power Clip container and get good results but not in cases where two light gradients butted up against each other.
If you have to use this method of simpliying or trimming, an outline converted to an object can then be filled with the gradient of the interior object. Once that is done, you can weld them together again. Too much work, but if I selected one object only when simplify has finished and resize it with the % height x width at 101% x 101%, the line goes away. The change in size is imperceptible. And outlining did not need to be used.
It would be nice if there was a choice in which way the anti-aliasing would work. Either way, making objects bigger or smaller, there are headaches.
However since you know how this is working and understand what DRAW is doing, you are in a better place to figure out how to solve the problem.
When I encounter flaws like this, it is when I am under a deadline and I just don't have the patience to solve the dilema.
Except for yesterday, I had a funeral folder to do, and the people gave me 11 color family snap shots, only one was a studio shot. Additionally, I am outputting for a monotone plate and convert everything to grayscale. This was for a black family, and it is a challenge to keep the faces and backgrounds balanced so that faces do not get too dark, and yet they have a full range of grayscale. This part I did in Photoshop. (I do a lot of funeral folders and have often had to do retouching for my black friends, it is always a challenge, but one I am glad do.) The client wanted me to make a collage. I often have spent a long time doing this and I had to have the whole thing done inside of two hours. So I decided to place the ten pictures in their own vignettes and assemble them in DRAW and see what I could do quickly (the eleventh picture was for the cover and not the collage). Of course there was overlap from the crop I did in Photoshop. I applied 100% transparency set to Subtract and I got the effect I wanted, my vignettes were easy to position and no boundary lines. That is one time an epiphany hit me.
Since there were so many bitmaps on the page, I grouped them all and converted to bitmap, even though each one was grayscale at 300 dpi already, to avoid any problems with PostScript and the Subtract lens. The result printed beautifully.
DRAW isn't perfect but it can behave brilliantly at times. Considering what I had to do, I met my deadline, but I was glad when it was off the press and picked up.
BTW, don't give up, you have some of the most interesting ideas here and learn a lot from your posts.
The forum is helpful in stimulating creativity.
Every day's a new day, "draw" on what you've learned.
Sally M. Bode
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