Calligraphy brush drawing issue, white holes

[THE-KAL]

I have this problem when I draw with a calligraphy brush. Any idea why this happens? Its these white holes, the path looks clean.

And here are my brush settings

[tromboniator]

Try View menu > View using CPU. And check to see if there's an update for your graphics card driver.

Peter

[THE-KAL]

Same issue.

[Barbara Ash]

I see the issue. I think I've encountered it before and delt with it by nudging some of the anchor points into a slightly different position.

If you need to be more precise, you could Image > Expand Appearance, then use Pathfinder > Unite and with the Direct Selection tool, delete the shapes that are forming the holes.

[THE-KAL]

I know this, but I don't want to expand yet. I am looking for a fix for the brush strange behaviour.

[THE-KAL]

@Peter, it didn't work.

[barbara_a]

As far as I know, there is no fix; that's why I suggested a workaround. You can vote for a change at https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/34128700-ca...

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

You may call Zig Zag as a hole fighter that silently adds some (invisible) anchor points.

Select your brush objects, go to Effect > Distort and Transform > Zig Zag and use the following settings (for example).

Note that the Ridges per segment setting may have to vary, so just play a bit around with the settings.

You can save that as a graphic style and reuse it.

[Doug A Roberts]

"You may call Zig Zag as a hole fighter"

I think this will be a unique phrase on the web for some time.

[Barbara Ash]

Nice!