Expanding a blend breaks the middle steps
When blending from one object to another, everything works great unless I want to expand the shapes, and then things get a little bizarre. i use this tool quite a bit and when expanding my blends, since CC 2019, I've never had a problem until now.
Not sure how to fix this other than rebuild the shapes... but this time it's a simple shape. Other times, it was not. Very inconvenient. Bewildered.
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Anastasios Tsatsakis
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What happens is that Ai expands the objects first and then blends the expanded shapes.
So to make it work properly you should expand the blend only first (with a dedicated Object > Blend > Expand command), rather than the general Object > Expand, and then use the general Expand and Expand Appearance.