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exactspace
Inspiring
March 27, 2022
Question

Since Flash (Animate) was first conceived, the convert lines to fills has never worked consistently

  • March 27, 2022
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I'm now at a loss of what to do to convert lines to fills. A developer told me they don't want to touch Animate's codebase because it is so old and cryptic, and attempting to fix something will often lead to breaking something else. Instead, they pile on flashy updates to seem like they are improving it somehow. 

 

Look what happens when I try to convert this line to a fill. What do I do? Are we stuck in the year 1996? Can I get my money back?

Video of convert lines to fills being broken 

 

It's embarressing to see this still a problem after 25 years.  

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    JoãoCésar17023019
    Community Expert
    JoãoCésar17023019Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 28, 2022

    Hi.

     

    Yeah, I reported this issue to the team back in October 2020, but I didn't get any answer up until this day.

     

    I hope they fix it someday.

     

    I ended up finding that it is much more reliable to use Illustrator for this specific job instead. That's what worked for me when I needed to convert hundreds of icons lines to fills.

     

    Regards,

    JC

      n. tilcheff
      n. tilcheff
      Legend
      March 27, 2022

      Yeah, it's always been like that.

      If you want to get this done, go in outlines mode and with the eraser remove a 'pixel' at the corners where the individual lines connect. Then all will be fine.

       

       

      BTW, it has always worked 'consistently'. Just not the way it is supposed to 🙂

       

      Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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        exactspaceAuthor
        Inspiring
        March 27, 2022

        Thank you that worked! Though I don't want to do this when the outline becomes more complex. It should just work. 

         

        Adobe - PLEASE. It has been far too much time. I'm forced into using Adobe products for work, but it does not seem like it is worthwhile for you all to fix productivity-breaking bugs that are DECADES old. It can't be rocket science, can it? 

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