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brentendo aka Brendan Sparrow is a 23.07 year old boy, has been a member since June 5, 2007, has scored 54,441 submissions, giving an average score of 1.86, helping 635 designs get printed.

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Jan 06 '10 by brentendo
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Illustrator help? - outlining stroke

Originally a problem blog but it soon got sorted, check the comments for ways on getting around the problem

I took some quick screencaps to illustrate what was going wrong

I made a line.

I expanded it.

I selected the anchor point I wanted to move.

And it turned out there was another hiding underneath it.

wtf!

check the comments how to get around it :)

rodrigobhz on Jan 06 '10 at 6:42am

Oh, this is really annoying. Sorry but I can't help you!

brentendo on Jan 06 '10 at 6:51am

haha yeah it's irritating. It does the same whether I use the Object/Expand method or the Object/Path/Outline Stroke method.

gumbolimbo on Jan 06 '10 at 6:53am

Ah yeah. Illustrator can ce a bastaird. Did you try the flatten transparency method, too?

brentendo on Jan 06 '10 at 6:58am

no I don't know that method, how do I do that?

brentendo on Jan 06 '10 at 7:01am

ahh yes! I just found it on the object drop down menu and tried it out. I think it's worked ok. Thanks alot!

corey9 on Jan 06 '10 at 7:10am

cool. i think i got this to work too:

select the object you have expanded.

go to Object/Path/Simplify

then set the Cure Precision == 100%

(i left the angle threshold at what it defaulted to)

seemed to remove the extra points.

brentendo on Jan 06 '10 at 7:15am

ah sweet, cheers dude, just tried it and that works well. means I won't have to go back over all my expanded linework with the flatten transparency method.

Nigil on Jan 06 '10 at 7:21am

if you give me your email, i have a remove overlapping anchors script i could send you

brentendo on Jan 06 '10 at 7:23am

that sounds useful! my emails btsparrow(at)hotmail.co.uk

Nigil on Jan 06 '10 at 7:34am

alright sent it off, the script also wont add unnecessary anchors as simplify can do .

Nigil on Jan 06 '10 at 7:36am

sent it to you as well brightwood

MsCrumblebottom on Jan 07 '10 at 9:47am

this happened to me sometimes too, and I just removed the extra points out, or just leave them that way. LOL

Why I never think about how to figure it out? fool me

thanks that you're bringing this up, at least the comments let me know the better solution. ^ ^

14 days later

nickv47 on Jan 21 '10 at 12:24pm

you can use the white arrow key, select that point with a cursor drag, then it selects both the points, then you can move them both at the same time. or just delete one of the points with the delete anchor point (the pen tool with the minus sign below it) and it should maintain the curve.

16 days later