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Gradient broken into paths in CS3
Hello, I have recently been receiving a lot of files that have a gradient made up of a series of paths. I do not know if the gradients in the original files have been expanded, or if it is a conversion issue (i.e. the original files were created in another program and exported as an .ai or .pdf).
What I am trying to figure out is if there is a way to recombine these paths into one path while preserving the gradient(?). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -
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I’ll usually see gradients converted to shape objects, not paths.
This can be done by expanding a gradient.Corel has some conversion/export options that may do this.
Many people consider this to be the appropriate way to prep a file for print, it can potentially help to avoid gradient interpretation issues. I trust Acrobat to use gradients correctly, however.
The only way I can think to fix this would be to save the key colors as swatches, and recreate the gradient inside the shape object.
Just some ideas.
Vince
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