Thie Thomsen
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It kind of looks like you have got a brush applied to the shape.
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In the pulldown menu of the alignment window, you can uncheck “Use preview Bounds”.
That way it will align to the actual paths instead of the percieved object size.
This is off by default by the way…
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Indeed, opacity masks are what you are looking for here.
You can create one by selecting the objects you want to be affected by the mask, and the object which will do the masking (In this case, black will represent transparent/masked areas, white/transparent will represent opaque areas) on top.
Then select ‘make opacity mask’ from the pull down menu of the transparency window, and turn off ‘invert’ and ‘clipping’.
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You are editing items that are enclosed in a ‘clipping path’. What this means is that the top element in the group acts as a mask, cutting off/hiding everything outside of this shape.
Flattened and reimported PDF files use these on just about every objectlayer in the artwork.
You can recognize clipping paths in your layers panel as they are almost always the top object of the masked group, and their names are underlined. Moving an object out of it’s group (in the layers menu) will effectively stop the mask to affect them. Alternatively you can release the clipping mask by selecting the group affected, and selecting ‘object’->’clipping paths’->’release clipping paths’ (or alt+7).
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Upload the file and have someone take a look at it.
Also, check if overprint preview is enabled or disabled. Maybe you are missing overprinted whites in the print preview…
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Use a crop area, and make sure that this area is the exact amount of pixels you want the exported bmp to have. What you are seeing is probably due to antialiassing and interpolation because of illustrator compensation for half-pixel sizes.
If your version has pixel preview, you could try enabling it. You should be able to see what the effects or rasterizing would be beforeehand.
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I’ve reread that sentence, and in retrospect i could have been a little clearer :).
What i meant was: I like Bridge, but for pure file operations i think the finder is much more streamlined.
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Rsync beats most GUI based apps in terms of speed and reliabillity. Also, if you work a lot with files and structures, a little terminal experience can go a long way, and you might even save a buck or two because of the software allready available on your mac 🙂 (So you don’t have to buy an expensive backup app).
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Also, learning all of the keyboard shortcuts of the Finder will really speed stuff up. The only thing the Finder does not do is ‘Cut->Paste’ files, but if you are on a roll, switching back after a successfull copy/paste and hitting the backspace really won’t slow you down.
Bridge is fun, but for files only, I still like Finder better.
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Yes, I would also go to great lengths to prevent the installation of Coreldraw on any computer :P.
That being said: It’s really cheap, and a skilled person can deliver some decent work in it.
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