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Hendrik Wagenaar said:Tony and I have spoken briefly about this one before, but other stuff seems to take precedence. I'll bring it up again.
Edit: Looked at your macro and it works great, but it doesn't change any curve directions, right? It only toggles the winding rule between Alternate and Winding. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just thought it would be handy (and useful for engravers/vinyl cutters perhaps) with a command to correct the curve directions instead.
Actually when you converted script text to curves Corel USED to leave holes in the overlaps. Correcting that is what the weld function was for. That made sense to me back then (although I was happy when I didn't have to break everything apart to keep from losing the insides of the letters during a weld), but this winding rule just feels like a bug to me (I understand that it's not). Anyhow, I can deal with a macro (THANKS!), though I must admit that I would not have had the time or patience to create one myself (too busy designing signs, engravables, wide-format prints and imprintables). So, I doubt that offering such an item as macro inspiration wouldn't really work for me.
Thanks again for the work-arround though!
Ronny Axelsson said: Tony and I have spoken briefly about this one before, but other stuff seems to take precedence. I'll bring it up again.That would be really useful Hendrik, but seriously, it should be built in and not a macro. Edit: Looked at your macro and it works great, but it doesn't change any curve directions, right? It only toggles the winding rule between Alternate and Winding. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just thought it would be handy (and useful for engravers/vinyl cutters perhaps) with a command to correct the curve directions instead. [/quote] Hi Ronny, Allow me to clarify, we discussed built in behaviour. Toggling the winding rule is the right way to do this. If the graphic designer wanted to keep the winding rule, then we'd have no way to predict what the he expects (for example, with figure eights, overlapping internal subpaths, etc.) If the graphic designer simply wants alternating fills, then switching the winding rule to "alternating" is sufficient. I guess what you're looking for isn't really related to the winding rule, is there a situation where you want every other internal subpath to have the opposite direction to the last subpath, for engraving or vinyl? Regards,Hendrik
Tony and I have spoken briefly about this one before, but other stuff seems to take precedence. I'll bring it up again.
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Hi Ronny,
Allow me to clarify, we discussed built in behaviour.
Toggling the winding rule is the right way to do this. If the graphic designer wanted to keep the winding rule, then we'd have no way to predict what the he expects (for example, with figure eights, overlapping internal subpaths, etc.) If the graphic designer simply wants alternating fills, then switching the winding rule to "alternating" is sufficient.
I guess what you're looking for isn't really related to the winding rule, is there a situation where you want every other internal subpath to have the opposite direction to the last subpath, for engraving or vinyl?
Regards,Hendrik
Llewner said:but this winding rule just feels like a bug to me
Ahhhh, but, many felt the old behaviour was a bug (and indeed it was), and this is why it was changed.
I know you're not looking for inspiration, but replace the combine command with the following macro and you'll have Draw12 behaviour when combining.
Sub CombineWithAlternateWinding() ActiveDocument.BeginCommandGroup "Alternating Combing" Dim OrigSelection As ShapeRange Set OrigSelection = ActiveSelectionRange OrigSelection.CreateSelection Dim s As Shape Set s = ActiveSelection.Combine s.FillMode = cdrFillAlternate
ActiveDocument.EndCommandGroupEnd Sub
Hendrik Wagenaar said:I guess what you're looking for isn't really related to the winding rule, is there a situation where you want every other internal subpath to have the opposite direction to the last subpath, for engraving or vinyl?