Negative Offset Path fills entire shape

[Schoonbeek5E71]

Hi thanks for reading,

I am trying to create a negative offset path for a lot of images with a lot of small shapes in them as well. When the shape is too small instead of not creating a path at all it just duplicated the exact shape, I then have to delete all those tiny shapes manually. Is there a way to set offset path to not create a shape if the negative shape is too small?
I attached a sample image, you can see in the main part of the red shape the grey part works fine, but some smaller bits are just filling the shape completely.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Offset path works like it is. You might want to report this as a bug (feature request): https://illustrator.uservoice.com

But you could use it as an effect.

Depending on your workflow either:

Duplicate the objects and then apply the effect

or

in the Appearance panel create a new fill for the objects, apply a color to it and then apply Effect > Path > Offset path

You can apply more fills and then add the effect to those.

YOu can save that as a graphic style and then apply the graphic style to other objects (even in other files when you just load the graphic styles in the new file)

[Schoonbeek5E71]

Thanks, unfortunately the effect offset path has the same issue so I will report it and just hope they can do something with it in the future