Retaining transparency when cutting shapes which include negative spaces
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When you use the knife tool or break apart a shape which includes a negative shape for its transparent areas - i.e the letter "O" - the negative area will take a positive fill which then needs to be excluded manually using the boolean operations. This is manageable when it comes to simple objects, but when your shape includes a lot of transparent/negative areas you need to spend a lot of time figuring things out and re-excluding them from the base shape.
So if possible it would be great if the original positive/negative spaces are retained after using the knife tool like in Illustrator which seems to automatically punch-out the negative spaces. I know this isn't a quick fix, just putting it here for future consideration.
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@Kyriakos I could not replicate this. If you could send me a file with the original shape and the shape where negative areas get filled it would help. Also: what is the fill mode of the object? even-odd or winding ?
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@vectoradmin This is what i mean...
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Have also problems with knife . Tested on few fonts, and results usually are different than expected. Need some improvements
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Here's another example without type, the transparent area is resulting to a new shape instead of cutting just the positive space.
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@vectoradmin playing with the updated knife tool now, it now properly cuts the relevant part on the "g" but that lower part is still taking a positive fill, is that supposed to happen? And on the square shape it seems to merge the negative space with the positive.
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Also when multiple objects are cut some parts are deleted with only their edges remaining...
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@Kyriakos I keep the issue open.
