Inside / Outside aligned strokes don’t trim sharp corners properly
The fact Inside / Outside aligned strokes are in fact dynamically generated compound shapes is a well obscured mystery, and it poses a ton of problems for experienced users.
However, this problem is blatantly obvious for all of us.
1. Make a path with a sharp angle, set sharp corners
2. Try to align stroke to Inside / Outside (open paths currently support this only in Beta)
3. Just look at the results.
What are these protrusions?
Why don’t they get auto-trimmed?
Why expanding them gives a zero-width disjointed sliver and two unconnected shapes?
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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The team has encountered several issues with this feature. It requires them to change the basic algorithms and it is going to take them more time than anticipated.
While it still works in Beta 28.8.0.7, the next Beta build will have Inside/Outside aligned strokes for open paths disabled. The Beta is scheduled to be live on 7th of August.
Once this is ready to be enabled back, the team will update the status.