• Adobe Illustrator

  Ghost Lines in EPS format

  Posted by Alex Kuzelicki on October 19, 2008 at 6:12 am

  Hey there,

  I’m pretty much a novice with Illustrator – though learning all I can. I still get caught out by technical things all the time though (pretty frustrating).

  Just made a logo for someone (on a deadline) and they required it in .EPS format. Inside Illustrator, all looked good in the .AI formaat and same for the .EPS version. I went to email the .EPS though and when I attached it I could see (in the preview) a bunch of what seem to be guidelines or bounding boxes ghosted behind the logo. When I open it in Illustrator, they aren’t present.

  I went through the document and deleted every guideline I could find. Went through every single layer and did the same. Swept the layout with the selection tool to try find any unseen paths… but still, when I look at that ‘attachment preview’, those boxes are there.

  I don’t know if they are going to print out or not. They don’t seem to on my printer but I don’t want to send this off to the client and have these ghost lines show up all over his logo.

  Anyone know what might be happening and how I can fix it?

  Thanks in advance,

  ALEX

  Vincent Rosati replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Vincent Rosati

  October 20, 2008 at 1:11 am

  I’m not sure what your issue actually is, I haven’t seen it..

  I assume these ‘Ghost Lines’ don’t show up on the preview of other AI files??

  Maybe try carefully selecting each/all components of the logo with the Group Selection Tool and pasting into a new clean document.

  Vince

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