Expanding Intertwine creates too many identical copies and doesn’t optimize them
If you expand an intertwine object (with the global Expand: Object command, since it does not have its own specific Expand), the one with a lot of zones, you get a ton of overlapped clipping containers with a reordered copies insides, one per each zone used.
While technically it’s OK, the amount of copies can be just absurd.
Some copies are identical and differentiate only by the location of their clipping masks. Perhaps Ai should track these copies and clip then not with separate masks, but a single compound path mask, when possible?
The degradation is not so graceful with the current unrefined direct translation. Even if Ai stores these as separate copies inside of a live Intertwine, they probably should be 'compressed', to avoid bloating.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Intertwine now tries to optimize the number of clips created when expanding.