Inside / outside strokes get silently expanded when you create a pattern with them
Try these steps:
1. Create a shape (like ellipse or rectangle)
2. Make sure you have Inside or Outside option chosen for Align Stroke in the Stroke panel
3. Object > Pattern > Make (or drag the ellipse to the Swatches panel)
4. Check the contents of the pattern.
The stroke gets expanded!
However, if you copy an object with an Inside / Outside stroke and paste it into the pattern — it doesn’t get expanded and stays live... until you commit editing — only then Ai warns you non-cnetered strokes will get expanded.
Perhaps Ai should drop a message before expanding strokes? Shy one (the same as 'Shape expanded' we see when a rectangle gets modified to something else), or a loud one?
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Daté TETEGAN
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I'm totally agrea, the user must be informed from the start that brush strokes cannot be used in pattern edit mode.
Without a warning it sounds like a bug when you realize after that strokes are expended whereas it 's a restriction of the application.