Annie

Fred,

I'm not able to reproduce your results in Vista. I used your paths, created
a repeating stroke, applied it to a polyline path, copied and pasted the
path and convert the stroke to a path but they don't come out like yours.
I'll try it in XP.

Can anyone else reproduce Fred's results?

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"Fred C." <fdrawremove@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> To reproduce in Design 2 (Beta):
>
> 1. I made several ellipses sequentially rolling clockwise around their
> respective centers in 20 degree intervals.
> 2. I grouped them and made them into a new stroke (repeating.)
> 3. Using the new stroke, I made a line with the polyline tool.
> 4. I copied and pasted (Control + C, Control + F) the line and converted
> it
> to a path.
>
> Problems:
> 1. Re: 3 above--The stroke at approximately the same size looks faceted.
> 2. Re: 4 above--When converted the shapes distort badly.
>
> Expected behavior:
> 1. The stroke should have the same sharp edges as the originals.
> 2. No distortion after converting to path.
>
> I tried a similar process with straight line shapes and rectangles and the
> distortion (Problems #2) did not happen; of course no facets were expected
> with straight elements.
>
> (jpg atchd). (design file atchd. in part 2 message, same subj.)
>
> Regards,
> Fred
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