Of no use whatsoever....

[Egg Bramhill]

.. but interesting. I recently made a brush for someone asking a question on the forums. I attach it below.

I noticed that when I moved the line of black dots behind the text with peach dots, on my machine it effected the positioning of the texts dots. Can anyone else see this odd effect?

[haakoo]

Hi,

Sorry,here no go
even with scale line widths un/checked and snapping objects/grid

Hans

[The Alien]

I see what you mean. When you're continuously moving the black line behind the text, the dots on the text somehow get recalculated and re-rendered

I'd expect such behaviour when the length of the lines (of the letters) would change with line-scaling disabled, so it's a bit weird to see it happen here

[handrawn]

yep - zoomed to 500% and swished the black line behind the e and b characters and they did indeed appear to 'redraw' themselves - no idea why?

[David O'Neil]

I have seen this quite a lot. It has something to do with the accuracy of lines being 'different' at different zoom levels. It happens with plain lines with dash patterns as well--you don't need a custom brush. For instance, move the blue line around in the modified file at a 200% or more zoom, and you will notice the same thing occur with the black line. It is probably being triggered by the way clipping works.

[Xhris]

Yeah, sometimes happens with the grid/guidelines too. This would be a good example to show Xara.

[Egg Bramhill]

Cheers chaps,

Thanks for the feed back. You're correct Dave, it does work with a standard line as well.

Hans, this is what the effect looks like zoomed in, you can see the offset taking place. It might be video card dependent.

[David O'Neil]

For an even more weirder effect, move the line in the following. Now the black line doesn't get redrawn, but both circles do.

[handrawn]

theres a thing

[jeffb]

To do with the machine being used, as i can move and scale all files no offset or mishapes nothing wrong files stay ok all the time