[Steven Godber]

i suspect what has happened is that, somehow, the path that describes that wayward part of the G has been “inverted” so that illustrator is seeing it as an external part of the object and directing the stroke accordingly. i don’t know how to fix this, or even how it has happened since all the other cut-away sections seemed to behave as they ought to …

[Steven Godber]

Thanks for trying that Paul, it helps me rule out a problem of hardware.

In fact it turns out that it’s likely just a case of clumsy use of Particle-World. The problem seems to occur when i raise the z-radius of the emitter, you need this reasonably high for that “comin’ straight at ya” effect, the higher the figure the more powerful the effect. But too much introduces this clipping which appears to be exactly as you describe.

It’s probably worthwhile finding out if the same problem occurs with Particular but for now, most importantly, hardware and settings issues are ruled out.

Thanks heaps for that, you’ve been a great help. And thanks for the new vocabulary 😉

Steve.

[Steven Godber]

hi Paul and thanks.

No, there’s no difference in 16 or 32 bit mode, in fact if anything it should be worse since particle-world works best in 8 bit.

It’s probably worth noting that this is something i made ages ago with cs3 on a windows machine, i can’t remember if the result was as ugly then as it is now. using the same settings i re-created the comp in a new project to rule out any issues with project settings (it almost looks like an interlacing issue) but the problem persists.

and here are some screenshots of the settings i used, feel free to give it go and see what you make of it. (quite fun for next to no effort)

Incidentally, i am aware of clipping in digital audio and photography but i’m curious to know what you mean by clipping in this case …

thanks again

[Steven Godber]

Hi Kim,
Is it possible to try opening the file on another machine ?

Presuming that you can open other files, what significant differences are there in the files ie; filesize, content (media etc), use of 3rd party plugins etc ..

Steve.