Converting Stroke to Fill

[MahaB82A]

What is the purpose of converting Stroke into Solid fill?

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Logo Design Techniques

 

[Rene Andritsch]

Once you convert your stroke into a solid fill, it is “immune” to scale effects. It will always keep its shape as you intended it to be. As long as you have a path that is only a stroke you could change the stroke width while scaling. This setting can be found in the Transform Panel.

Also: If you want to create a font out of a shape it has to be outlines (no strokes) only. 

[Rene Andritsch]

Another reason is that Pathfinder operations will have very different results when applied to expanded paths or shapes versus paths with strokes. See the results below using two overlapping circles. On the left paths with a stroke. On the right the same shape though strokes expanded.

[Scott Falkner]

One reason is to manipulate the paths once the outlines are converted to fills.

[Rene Andritsch]

Actually there are so many reasons to do this which will become more obvious the more you work with Illustrator.

[MahaB82A]

What is the reason for this work?

[Jacob Bugge]

Maha,

See a few reasons in the link in my other post.

[MahaB82A]

Is there any different between the Fill & Solid Fill ?

[Doug A Roberts]

Where do you see the terminology 'Solid Fill'?

[MahaB82A]

I didn't see the terminology 'Solid Fill' but heard. Please see my original link at the given time.

[Doug A Roberts]

It's just colloquial language. It doesn't mean anything other than 'Fill'.

[MahaB82A]

Thanks for the clarification.

So that there is big different between the STROKE and FILL. I had an assumption that stroke means mere strip and fill means mere wider area. 

[Doug A Roberts]

'Fill' is an appearance applied to the area contained by the path. 'Stroke' is an appearance applied along the length of the path (usually with some thickness).

[MahaB82A]

What is the purporse of converting Stroke into fill in this video, if there is no technical reasson, other than the reasons above mentioned by you.  

[Doug A Roberts]

In the video, the presenter uses the shape created by converting the stroke to a fill to then split it up into other shapes.

[MahaB82A]

I have to expriment this split theory to better known. By the time I must know, is it not possible to split the stroke?   

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

A stroke is an appearance. An appearance's shape depends on the path it is applied to. It cannot be edited with the drawing/editing tools.

Expand it to a fill creates a path based on the stroke outline.

[MahaB82A]

 Is there any indication particular Stroke is converted into Solid?

Okey I have found it. Please ignore this question.

[barbara_a]

Sometimes I've converted strokes to paths in order to get to parallel lines on a complex path.

[Jacob Bugge]

Maha,

There are (sometimes crucial) reasons to either keep a stroke or to change it to a fill.

Always keep a backup of artwork that you are going to change irreversibly, such as outlining stroke/expanding to get fill instead, so you can go back. It is also easier to keep the stroke until you are sure about the shape of the (spine of the) path.

In connexion with logos, there are (other) specific reasons to end up by outlining strokes, such as to ensure the final appearance and the usability across whichever applications/formats/uses may prove relevant.

Bobby mentions some applications/uses where the usability reason applies here,

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/outline-vector-cannot-be-read-from-illustrato...

[Monika Gause]

In that even he even shows why he did it directly afterwards: in order to do some construction.

And here are yet 3 nother reason for outlining the stroke: this video is about logos and with logos you have to do it:

- because logos often need to be cut with a plotter

- because logos are often opened in other vector applications and you never know what they will do with your carefully chopsen stroke width

- because you don't want the people from marketing change your stroke to dashed line just because they think it's fancy

[MahaB82A]

Thanks all the people for their help.