I’ve seen a number of threads regarding lightburn importing AI files with rasterized stroke rather than paths, resulting in the “shape” of the stroke generating two outlines with a narrow gap.
This is a new issue for me, as I have dozens of files created in the same way and saved in the same way, but only the most recent file imports with double outlines.
Right now i’m working with a new file and a file from about a year or so ago. Both files have a red 1pt stroke. I’ve even re-saved the old file using the exact same settings and format as the new file, but I can’t replicate the double lined import.
I suspect the issue is with AI, but so far can’t seem to get viable resolution. Any ideas?
To prevent a further spread of madness for whoever finds this, the solution was to change the stroke alignment from outside to center in illustrator. Anything besides center will treat the stroke as a shape with an outline instead of a path.
I don’t know if it’s an issue with illustrator exporting the path this way or with lightburn importing it. Either way, it only cost my sanity to figure it out.
The usual double-line problem comes from having LightBurn trace a raster image into paths, producing a pair of closely spaced paths along what started as a single line. Hilarity ensues.
Now that we (well, I) know it’s possible to produce the same result without bouncing off a raster image, maybe we can avoid some confusion.