Vincent Rosati
Forum Replies Created
-
There are a number of approaches you could take.
First, see if there is already a pattern in the Swatches palette, inside the AI pattern file.
If so, drag the pattern onto the artboard and set it to your desired color. Then drag the recolored pattern back into the palette.
Then, you can apply the pattern swatch to the text just as you would any other swatch.If there is no pattern swatch, you’ll either have to make one out of the given pattern, or probably the easier approach might be to simply Object / Expand the text that you want the pattern on, then use the expanded/outlined text as a clipping mask on the existing pattern.
Let us know if any of this doesn’t make sense.
I didn’t go into details on creating a pattern swatch because it might be unnecessary.Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Maybe try duplicating the text with Copy/Front (Edit/Copy/Edit/Paste in Front).
Change the color of one of the text objects to the desired color.
Than duplicate part of your other structure, the bird, and use it as a clipping mask on the top text (Object / Clipping Mask / Make).Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Will the printing service be editing the file? Can you just flatten the PSD as a TIF, or save the file as a Photoshop PDF?
It doesn’t seem typical, that they would want an AI file over something more portable than TIF or PDF.Is it possible that the problem fonts are different versions than the ones that you have installed on your system?
What happens when you try to edit the problem text in Photoshop? It sounds like you haven’t fully tested them yet?Based on your ‘permission bits’ note, I’d guess that the font’s simply can’t be embedded due to a licensing restriction.
But, since your goal is to outline the text, this shouldn’t be an issue. Your goal is to not embed the fonts. In AI, just make sure all layers are unlocked, select all, and object/expand.ps – I think Scott was just trying to help. We all do this because we just want to help. You may have read into his words a little too much. We’re mostly pretty easygoing here, just to give you some background, since it looks like you’re new here.
Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Possibly try View / Smart Guides (uncheck ‘Smart Guides’), and possibly uncheck the other ‘Snap’ options just below it in the View menu.
Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Basically, you select two objects, then do Minus Back. You may have to do this a number of times, for each operation.
Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Maybe try dragging the object with the effect into the appearance palette, then in theory you should be able to apply the appearance (effect) onto other objects.
Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
You probably want to use Pathfinder / Minus Back..
https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=minus+back&f%5B%5D=245Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Illustrator honors the ppi of raster images, so that may have played a factor, depending on how you rasterized your image. Or, if the ‘raster’ was a vector smart object, that could scale-up perfectly also.
Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
Looks like that graphic was probably created in a 3D app. Naturally, you could make something like that by drawing a bunch of triangles, and position all of the points with View / Snap to Point enabled.
As far as coloring it, you’d just have to do it piece by piece.
There are a number approaches you could take.
One might be to simply set color and transparency for each piece.
Another might take this a step further by duplicating the finished triangle components and Pathfinder / Unite. Then place the united component in a layer below the main component. Then you could fill the united component with an interesting gradient or something. Then for the main triangles you could experiment with different transparency modes.Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
-
The only thing that concerns me in your post is the drop-shadow. Transparency effects can be the cause of a number of issues.
Ultimately, you just need to do a test print and see how it looks.
Save a PDF with embedded fonts, or as a TIF with LZW compression.
Just some initial thoughts.Vince
*Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved. If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option.
