user20618: I've received an aep file and there's the following thing that drives me nuts:
There are obviously two overlapping shapes that where only the exclusion is filled:

Nothing special so far, but there are no masks included and also no Merge Paths:

So there are only two paths included (one for the circle and one for the rotated, overlapping rectangle), so which settings were used here to achieve the exclusion?
I personally would have used Merge Paths to achieve this result, but this is obviously not the case here.

user-1: It's likely due to fill-rule being set to "Even-Odd". Try changing it to "Non-Zero winding" instead:


20618: <p>I've received an aep file and there's the following thing that drives me nuts:</p>

<p>There are obviously two overlapping shapes that where only the exclusion is filled:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8nVl7.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8nVl7.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Nothing special so far, but there are no masks included and also no Merge Paths:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yoWdC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yoWdC.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>So there are only two paths included (one for the circle and one for the rotated, overlapping rectangle), so which settings were used here to achieve the exclusion?
I personally would have used Merge Paths to achieve this result, but this is obviously not the case here.</p>
 -1: <p>It's likely due to fill-rule being set to "<code>Even-Odd</code>". Try changing it to "<code>Non-Zero winding</code>" instead:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hhPkm.jpg" alt="example"></p>
