How to re-link illustrator layers;

Steve Roberts
June 15, 2010 at 1:42 pm

In CS4, double-clicking on an Illy layer in the project window links everything else, if the relationship between files and layers hasn’t changed. Unless I’m mistaken …
Frank Weber
June 15, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Thanks. But: If the file name has changed, all the layers are “lost” in AE.
Re-linking one layer, doesn’t automatically link the rest.
I’m getting Carpel-Tunnel from re-linking layers.
Steve Roberts
June 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm

Why don’t you rename the file to the old filename?

(You know not to do that again, eh?) 🙂
Frank Weber
June 16, 2010 at 10:51 am

Layers often get misinterpreted by AE, regardless of the file name.
If you ad or delete layers in an Illustrator file, the existing layers distort in AE.
When you re-import, you have to import each layer, in the said file, one by one.

Do you know what I’m talking about?
Steve Roberts
June 17, 2010 at 2:56 pm

[Frank Weber] “If you add or delete layers in an Illustrator file, the existing layers distort in AE. “

Oh, yes. That’s always a bad idea.
Frank Weber
June 17, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Um.
Ok.

…Thanks, I guess.
Steve Roberts
June 18, 2010 at 2:28 pm

Hey, whaddaya want fer nothin’? Rrrrrubberrr beeescuit?

🙂

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