Problem with Combine

jmag999 · Postby **jmag999** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:07 pm

I am new to vector art. Trying to combine two objects into one using combine (so that i may use the object to create a font glyph). When i combine my line with another object, it always fills in the bottom with color. See the attachment. How can i stop this from happening?

Postby **brynn** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:34 pm

When you combine 2 objects, the new object takes on the style of the last object that was created. That's as far as I know. There may be some other rule, instead of the last object that was created. But it has to take the style of 1 or the other.

Now that you have this new object, you can treat it like any other object. Such as add a stroke, remove a fill, etc.

To stop it from happening, make sure both original objects have the same style (same stroke, same fill, same stroke width). Note that often a very wide stroke width can make it appear that an object is filled with the stroke color. But it's really the stroke is so wide, it fills up the object. By your screenshot, it doesn't look like that's the case though.....although I'm not sure if you're showing the 2 original objects...

jmag999 · Postby **jmag999** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:11 am

You are right, it does appear to be related to stroke width. How can i recreate this object without a stroke?

Postby **brynn** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:35 am

Have you found Object menu > Fill and Stroke? After you create the object, you can do many things to it. You can add, change the color, or remove a fill from the Fill tab, add, change the color, or remove a stroke from Stroke Paint tab, and change stroke width from Stroke Style tab.

Or alternatively, you can make sure both objects have the same style (stoke, fill, stroke width, color, etc.) before you combine them.

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:22 am

Your line is an open path, with no fill but stroke, your text is a set of "paths" with fills and no strokes.

Convert stroke to path -Ctrl+Alt+C- on your line and it will work as you expected.

Postby **brynn** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 5:58 am

Hah! So you think he or she is trying to combine the open path with the text?

I thought the open path was one of the original objects, and the filled path was the unacceptable result. I never had any idea what the text was there for. I thought it just got caught in the screenshot. Because why would you combine text with an open path like that?

I was trying to give general concepts that would fix the problem, no matter which objects are involved. But it's still not clear what he or she is trying to do, exactly.

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 7:03 am

Don't know, maybe it's for some kind of symbol font.

Off topic:

Haven't started learning the in and outs of font creating myself yet, and even typophile is taking a long break before rebooting.[/url]

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