Neue Testversion 19.40b4

[Herbert123]

Bug:

1) create a vector stroke.
2) apply a good thickness: 50 px for example.
3) use the Line Pattern to change the variable width.
4) duplicate this layer virtually.
5) right-mouse click the virtual copy's eye icon, and choose "clip"

Expected result: a mask that is the same shape as the original stroke.

Actual Result: a mask that is a filled shape.

Untitled.jpg

This also does not work correctly when the vector stroke is set to clip directly.

[Herbert123]

Another strange one: I imported an Illustrator design, and all the colours are CMYK. The file opens in document mode.

When I add a transparent RGB image layer, place it at the bottom of the layer stack, and convert the document to picture mode, the entire design goes transparent, with only some of the black shapes still partly visible. Turning off transparency for this image layer restores the graphic. Switching to transparent again hides most of the shapes.

Saving the file or panning the view partly restores the image. There is some kind of view corruption going on.

I have attached an example file.

http://estructor.altervista.org/links/t1.jpg
http://estructor.altervista.org/links/t2.jpg

PS why is this forum software making it so hard to attach images? I tried to attach above images, which did not work. I uploaded them to my own server, and tried to use the img tag insert them: does not work either. ("your images may only be up to 640px wide" error).
So I am just providing the links to the ones on my server here.

[Eurgail]

Bug:

1) create a vector stroke.
2) apply a good thickness: 50 px for example.
3) use the Line Pattern to change the variable width.
4) duplicate this layer virtually.
5) right-mouse click the virtual copy's eye icon, and choose "clip"

Expected result: a mask that is the same shape as the original stroke.

Actual Result: a mask that is a filled shape.

Untitled.jpg

This also does not work correctly when the vector stroke is set to clip directly.

In your image the layer is not a virtual layer but the duplicated vector layer.
That's not a bug, i think, but the way strokes are handled: The width of a stroke is never used for clipping, only the area. In your picture the starting point and endpoint are connected to get the area (closed vector path) and this is used for the clipping mask.
If you want to use this shape as mask you need to create the vector outline first.

[Herbert123]

Sorry for all these posts, but I am encountering a lot of workflow related things now that I am working with CMYK graphics that must be converted to RGB ones.

Issue: I have two objects, one CMYK, one RGB. I wish to use the color picker to apply the RGB colour to replace the CMYK colour. This does not work. Both colour values are supposedly identical, but the CMUK colour remains different. I turned off colour management. With colour management turned on, the colours display correctly. However, I still want to convert these colours more easily.

It would be handy if the CTRL modifier key, in combination with the color picker, would also change the colour model/space together with the actual colour.

But now I am encountering another issue: even when I specifically convert the first object (which is CMYK) to be an RGB colour with the color editor panel, and then use the color picker to have it set to the second (RGB) object's colour, the first one suddenly reverts back to CMYK!!!

I have linked to a sample document.
http://estructor.altervista.org/links/test2.pld

Steps to reproduce:
0) open the document. Turn off color management in preferences temporarily. With colour management on, the colours of shape 1 and 2 look identical on my screen. With color management turned off, they differ, and shape one looks more pinkish.
1) select Shape 1 (CMYK colour)
2) open the color editor panel (not the modal dialog) View-->Lists-->Color Editor
3) in the color editor, swich the shape 1 colour mode to RGB. The fill colour swatch in either the tools or color editor no longer display the CMYK indicator.
4) switch to the color picker (shape 1 must still be selected).
5) click on the colour of shape 2 (which is a RGB coloured shape!).

Result: the colour of shape 1 changes back to CMYK mode, and the colour does not change!!! WHAT?!

What is happening here? I do not understand it. The other way around does work - but I need shape 1 to be shape 2's colour, not vice versa.

[Herbert123]

Bug:

1) create a vector stroke.
2) apply a good thickness: 50 px for example.
3) use the Line Pattern to change the variable width.
4) duplicate this layer virtually.
5) right-mouse click the virtual copy's eye icon, and choose "clip"

Expected result: a mask that is the same shape as the original stroke.

Actual Result: a mask that is a filled shape.

Untitled.jpg

This also does not work correctly when the vector stroke is set to clip directly.

In your image the layer is not a virtual layer but the duplicated vector layer.
That's not a bug, i think, but the way strokes are handled: The width of a stroke is never used for clipping, only the area. In your picture the starting point and endpoint are connected to get the area (closed vector path) and this is used for the clipping mask.
If you want to use this shape as mask you need to create the vector outline first.

Yes, I posted a screenshot without the virtual layer version. However, even with a virtual layer, it still does not work correctly. I understand that a workaround is to convert the stroke to an outline (which I did), but then I lose the option to edit that stroke later.

I still think this is incorrect behaviour, and the stroke should be able to be used as a clipping layer. It works in Photoshop that way as well: patterned strokes also work in PS.

[Herbert123]

Apologies, one more thing:

The color editor panel ought to keep the colour model intact when a colour is selected in the bottom part. Currently the colour is converted to RGB at all times, unless the user sticks to the sliders at the top. This is confusing. if I want to keep it CMYK, I cannot use the bottom part of the color editor, only the sliders.

The colours in the bottom part should ideally also adapt to the chosen colour model: when CMYK is selected, the bottom part can then display those possible colours.

[Eurgail]

I still think this is incorrect behaviour, and the stroke should be able to be used as a clipping layer. It works in Photoshop that way as well: patterned strokes also work in PS.

I don't know how to create such a thing (a stroke with variable width) in Photoshop, but in Illustrator you can find the same behaviour as in PhotoLine. Perhaps your wish is good feature request, however in any case there is no bug.

[photoken]

The color editor panel ought to keep the colour model intact when a colour is selected in the bottom part. Currently the colour is converted to RGB at all times, unless the user sticks to the sliders at the top.

I agree. The behavior of the small Color Editor window that is accessed by double-clicking on the F/B icons in the Toolbar correctly keeps the selected colour model at all times. The "big" Color Editor should behave the same.

Added:
This is a previously reported problem that still remains to be fixed:
http://www.pl32.com/forum3/viewtopic.ph ... tor#p33332

I've changed the title of this thread to "Problem" so I can track this issue.

[Herbert123]

In the web export dialog, selecting JPEG2000 crashes Photoline.

[Gerhard Huber]

In the web export dialog, selecting JPEG2000 crashes Photoline.

not here. Do I need a special kind of picture?

[Herbert123]

In the web export dialog, selecting JPEG2000 crashes Photoline.

not here. Do I need a special kind of picture?

Strange, it does for me - most images crash Photoline the instant I try to web export a JPEG2000

[photoken]

Strange, it does for me - most images crash Photoline the instant I try to web export a JPEG2000

Works fine here, too. All images -- JPG, PNG, TIF, PLD, PSD, AI, and various RAW formats -- have no problems. Original sizes ranged up to >30Mb.

Added:
I found a way to cause a crash -- choosing the "Add sRGB profile" option. New problem report filed on this.

[photoken]

Win7 x64 SP1
PL 19.40b4 x64

When using the Web Export, and specifying "JPEG 2000" as the format, selecting the "Add sRGB profile" option in the lower left corner crashes PL.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any image.
2. Choose Web...Web Export.
3. Select "JPEG 2000" as the export format.
4. Select the "Add sRGB profile" option.

Result
PL crashes.

Expected result
Well, no crash....

[Herbert123]

Confirmed, the Add sRGB Profile option crashes Photoline.

[Herbert123]

Small request: I am currently creating a bunch of game characters in Photoline, and I noticed that when I change the rotation points of groups and objects, and I save and close the files, the next time I open those files the rotation points have been reset to the center once more.

That is quite annoying, since I am forced to painstakingly move the rotation points all over again for each character when I continue to work with them.

As an example of how frustrating this is, imagine having set the rotation points for four legs, a tail, a head, eyes, and other elements, in order to create a new version. Then after saving and closing the files, I have to set all those rotation points ONCE AGAIN, because Photoline does not save that information in the .pld files.

Now multiply this by 18 (18 characters), and multiple sessions for different versions as well!!! You can imagine the lost time and effort...

Please oh please could you make sure that Photoline saves custom rotation points?