Second method to expand blends besides the blend panel ?
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I think we need an option to quickly expand blends without having to always go back in to the blend panel to do so. I was going back and forth on this because I don't want to complicate VS needlessly. I ran into this issue today as I was exporting a design as a pdf and even though I had expanded clipping groups and expanded paths, etc... it was giving me trouble and I realized I had forgotten I'd used a blend in the project and I needed to go find it and expand it. In the attached screenshot, it was the dark navy lines at the bottom of the circle.
I like to keep my blends "live" until I am totally committed to the final design. This gives me the flexibility to go back in at any point and alter the blend easily. The only downside is when I export the file and need to commit to the blends and expand them, the only option is to find each blend and go to the blend panel and expand there... For clipping groups, I like the way I can select the entire design and press one option to fix it for all cases in a project at once with "expand clipped groups". I know I can select them individually as well if I choose to do so. I'd love the same kind of ability with blends - select the entire design (or a single blend) and then go to a menu and click "expand blends" and have them all convert at once.
Not that this needs to be added in VS officially, but I've been thinking of making my own custom dropdown with all the commands I commonly use just prior to export. Checking that all blends are expanded would be one of them
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@Boldline Effects -> Blend -> Expand Blend ?
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@VectorStyler Yes! I "knew" that section was there, but I got into the habit of using the shortcut "control-b" and was not thinking of that expand blend already being there. I got used to most things I needed being in that same area and forgot the blend options were in another. I need to train my brain to look there. my fault - thank you!
