: Path offset functionality in other programs than Illustrator When Affinity Designer came out, I took the plunge and never looked back at Illustrator. Although, there is only one feature still
When Affinity Designer came out, I took the plunge and never looked back at Illustrator. Although, there is only one feature still missing, which I need from time to time: path offset.
In AD it can be achieved by outlining a stroke and clipping it from the original object, but this results in very messy paths:
In the past, I took a one-month subscription to Illustrator when I really needed this tool. But it's a bit silly to pay a hefty price for just this single feature.
Are there any other vector apps out there that can do the same without messing up the path structure?
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If you don't want to pay anything, have a look at inkscape(dot)org - it's Open Source, and has a dynamic offset path effect. It's different from Adobe Illustrator's offset, but it's free so what do you have to lose, except some time.
A quick demo of the Dymanic offset feature
After conversion of Dynamic offset to paths
You could try:
Inkscape, its not as clean as illustrator but its free.*
Gravit, but form what ive seen ist nearly as messy as AD.
Too bad makers of affinity designer didnt publish and api, because this would be really easy to make into the software.
* most people seem to be using the algorithm presented by pomax, which has this problem unless you tune it. But its not nearly as bad as the one presented by AD. Therefore had they an API it wouldnt take more than a few hour to port the pomax approach and then tune it.
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