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Why does my text look like crap?
Why does the text I generate in Illustrator 11.0 (using Avenir font in this instance–but other fonts as well) then turn into outlines and import as a layered .ai file into After Effects 7.0 look like crap? I have gone through the help and ticked the appropriate boxes for creating a pdf when saving and made sure that that the AICB and Preserve Paths options are chosen in the preferences.
Curves like terrible and aliased. Is there some secret to fixing this a bit. It is rather frustrating as I have not had the same problem importing logos generated in Illustrator to other programs.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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ok several questions need to be answered
what size was your text?
what format are you using?
is it interlaced?Aaron Zander
student editor at brooks institute of photography
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Did you click the “continuous rasterization” button for each AI layer in the AE comp? It’s the little sunburst.
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We don’t say “crap” here, we say “not good”.
Thx for understanding.
Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
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[Justin Productions] “We don’t say “crap” here, we say “not good”.”
*lol* Considering it’s not exactly “one of those bad words”, I don’t think it’s really a problem. If we keep this up for the sake of misunderstood politeness and respect, we’ll probably end up using George Orwell’s Newspeak and say “doubleplusungood”. ;o)
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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[Justin Productions] “We don’t say “crap” here, we say “not good”.”
How will the flowers grow with no manure around? Chemical fertilizers may be cleaner but they just don’t hold a candle to a nice shovel of crap, so sez this ole farmboy. ;^P
There are few words that can’t be used here and crap isn’t one of them.
:o)
A smiling as now thoroughly caffeinated,
Ron Lindeboom
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Another tip- if you have your comp zoom set to “Fit”, your zoom may end up at a fractional value, which can cause issues with vector art. Change your zoom to 100% to get a true preview and it should look smoother.
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Thanks very much for the suggestions. I did notice it looked worse in the fractional views of fit. But the problem still occurs on the curves of the letters.
I turned on the continuous rasterization and while it worked on straight lines, for the curves it got worse.
If anyone out there has some other ideas, please let me know. This could also be a problem on the illustrator end, but am I wrong in thinking that many designers create their logos in Illustrator then import them into After Effects?
As for the language issue, I suppose I shall refrain from comment, and merely humbly apologize to those that I offended.
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You really meant “carp”, right? It was a typo. 😉
Anyway, could you send me the Illustrator file and a screengrab of the problem so I can check it out?
… to: ads (aht) reidroberts (daht) (calm).
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Hey, I was just pointing out 🙂
Okay-okay 😛
Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional
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