On 18 May at 19:28, Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article <mpro.llc8fa00003m411s1.tim@xxxxxxxxx>, Tim Powys-Lybbe > <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > However I have found that this can leave some small bits behind in > > the final separation of the joined object from the intersect. I > > have made an ArtWorks page showing the steps I took to unite the > > objects and put it here: > > > <http://www.tim.ukpub.net/riscos/Uniting_shapes.zip> > > > Close examination will show two prongs (for want of a better word) > > poking up from the separated bit and missing from the united object. > > I would like the prongs to be on the United object. Can anyone > > advise how this can be done? > > Join shapes is doing exactly what you have asked it to do - when you > break the shapes you are left with two parts - the outline of both the > filled shapes that have now been joined and the bit which is normally > discarded (in your example, the bit with the two vertical prongs on > it). Because of the Intersection process this bit is made up of > individual objects meaning that you can simply select any one of them > and delete them - in your example select the two prongs and delete > them. > > I hope this answers your query. Well, more to the point I was stimulated to see what other programs would do and ambled over the the latest incarnation of Xara Xtreme which indeed has a Combine function and which did the job perfectly, leaving the little prongs in position in the main part. I have also gathered that Corel Draw will do as well. The poiint is that I was not in fact bothered with what happened to the left-over bit, it was that the prongs were missing from the United thingie. Thanks for looking into it. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------