Expanding a path with a gradient doesn't expand, just creates a group with the same path
I want to expand a gradient applied to a path so that I have bands of colour as vectors in place of the gradient.
I have been using this tool in this way successfully but this week there seems to be a bug: it works until it doesn't and then doesn't work at all.
If I quit Illustrator and reopen everything it might work again, but with some paths it doesn't work at all. Please see my screenshots.
Melany Jane Hodgson
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Melany Jane Hodgson
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Thank you Egor, I use this tool a lot so really appreciate you looking into it.
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OK, I can replicate it with the file, but it's very weird!
After I open the file in 26.2.1 on Windows and try to expand all three bottom object (circle, square, coast), with 10 steps (the values I have from previous operations), they all get expanded fine.
If I undo the operation and try to expand them one by one, it still works (including the coast).
But if I undo and try to expand with a different steps value... no luck with all shapes, no luck doing this with one at a time, no luck with expanding with the original value.
Relaunching Ai helps, but then it starts to misbehave again. Ugh!
Melany, thanks for the report. I'll try to bring some attention to this.
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Melany Jane Hodgson
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Hey Egor, thanks so much for your reply. Here's a file which shows it all clearly. Please let me know if you need anything else. This is part of my workflow so I'm really missing using the expand tool as I could before :'o
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What a strange bug... Can you please share the file for testing, here publicly or privately, via sharewithai@adobe.com? If you prefer using email, please add the link to this report into the body of the email (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/45133792).
