Illustrator :: Fill Not Showing Up
Jun 14, 2013
It seems I may be pressing random buttons, and I'm unable to reverse the effects they bring.First one being that all of my shapes now have these grey boxes around them that I cannot remove, cannot edit or interact with. I thought maybe they were just really annoying guides, but when I export to png to test this, low and behold there they are! How do I remove these?
Also, my shapes are not filling. When I give them a fill color, everything behind them is still showing through and the colors are not there. Every item has a different fill color, but none of these colors are showing up! because lines are showing through from the back.
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Aug 31, 2012
Returning to Illustrator after not using for a long time.
How can I permanently show paths created for example by the pen tool when I create them with no fill or stroke attributes - for example a set of contours?
If I set the view to outline (control + Y it does this but puts them on a white background meaning I can't see underlying layers.
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Feb 17, 2013
I traced an image earlier, expanded it then wanted to change the line colour. For some reason I couldn't get this to work even though I've done it in the past. So, I used the magic wand to select the line then dragged it into my new document and changed the line colour.
Now, I want to change the fill on certain sections, however when I change the stroke it changes the colour of the line and when I change the fill it changes the color of the line.
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Nov 20, 2012
I spend 12 hours a day in illustrator and some functionality seems to simplistic and ultimately annoying.I'm using Windows 7 64bit. Adobe Illustrator CS6
1. Please auto switch between Stroke fill and fill when I select text. 99% of my time is spent only using fill on text. I would rather manually switch to Stroke when I want to add a fill to it rather having to switch to fill each time.
2. Same for Stroke, from point 1.
3. Add an auto layer for Guides. When I am using the Scissors tool, the majority of the time I don't want to cut my guides up, I would rather instead cut up the shape below it. Again manually changing the layer to select the guide would be preferable.
4. I personally never use the Eraser tool and I switch to the Scissors Tool. Without fail every time I launch Illustrator I have to switch from the Eraser Tool too the Scissors tool. Please add cookies or something so I don't have to always switch to the Scissors Tool.
5. Move "Align to Pixel" toggle somewhere outside a file menu.
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May 22, 2013
I'm working on an assignment at present which needs to depict the site cut, fill and batters on both site and section view.
I'm trying to achieve something like this: [URL] ....
I have toposurface happening in both the existing and new construction phases, and have modified the new construction one.
I can get it to show the existing and new ground levels in section view when I change the phase filter, but I can't seem to be able to change the hatching to represent cut and fill. I even tried detailing it in, however I can't seem to get lines to snap to the section cut toposurface.
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Jul 12, 2012
how to make a ribbon in Illustrator, but I've become confused to the second part of part 7."With the text selected, go to the Appearance Panel and add a White fill, and then a fill in a dark shade of the ribbons main color...".
I've changed one fill to white, but I don't have the option to change a second fill. If I change the Stroke color, it doesn't look like the text shown in the screenshots.
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Oct 12, 2013
When having the eyedropper tool selected, holding Shift is a shortcut to only copy the stroke or fill (depending which is up). I noticed that when I tried to copy a fill like this, it would not work. In the image, I tried copying only the fill of the red circle, and applying it to the one with a transparent fill. The circle with the transparent fill in this image is selected, but the color swatch is saying that the fill is red.
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Apr 7, 2013
So, I have ensured that Object Selection by Path Only is unchecked in the selection and anchor display prefs. However, I still can't select an object by fill (clicking within the object). I have to go to the object edge and select the path.
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Aug 30, 2013
I made two lines with the arc tool, but how I can fill the area between the two lines red ? [URL]
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May 9, 2013
I'm having a problem with a logo I made which has a section of it that appears to be black fill with black stroke. However when I click on it and it shows the shape in that little preview box on the right panel, it appears grey. Then when I save it and open it in photoshop, the problem section is grey or transparent fill with black stroke. I can't seem to figure out why its doing this. There is no opacity on the object and it's clearly black in the colour settings. It used to be a gradient and I made it into a compound path to combine it with other sections but I released that and make it all solid color.
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Feb 13, 2013
The logo I'm working on requires part of some "complex" shape.
When I use the Knife tool (with the shape selected), it doesn't split: the line down the middle is just a guideline* and when I use the Erase tool, the lines become curvy.
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Jan 31, 2014
I am new in Illustrator, I don't need those white lines in the middle, so I would like to know how I can fill that shape fully with black color?
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Jan 1, 2013
Whenever I go to appearance panel menu > Add new fill when text is selected, the add new fill button is grey and I can’t add a second fill. I can add a new fill to shapes, but not text.
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Sep 28, 2013
I'm trying to do following action using CS6 SDK:
1 Covert the selected path into chained circles
2 Fill the selected shapes with circles
All circles are of equal size, and cannot be overlapped each other.
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May 14, 2013
When I Place an Illustrator file inside onather illustrator file, the overprint elements failed to be overprint.
Why? Is there a bug because I use CS6, but when I tried using CS5.5 it works without any problems.
Here I created a file called single.ai, and set the text to Overprint Fill.
Here when you hide black color the orange color filled completely.
Then I created a file called Multiple, and placed then repeated it.
But as you see when I hide the black color the orange filled is etched (spoiled).
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Aug 14, 2012
In Illustrator CS4:
I need to fill 20 circles with one common grad fill... so that the 1st circle is dark to the 20th as lightest (NOT each individual circle getting it's own gradient).
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Jul 6, 2012
How do I add/change a fill to an image in illustrator? I have binary tiff images (bitmaps). In CS4 I could change the fill from the default black to any other color simply using the control panel or the appearance panel. In CS6 it has no affect at all.
In the sample below the the image originally comes into illustrator shown in black. Once I update the fill to blue in the appearance panel, the image changes to blue (in CS4).
In CS6, changing the fill does nothing. Is there an extra step that now has to be performed? This is not a problem with the image. I opened the same image in both versions, followed the same steps and only have an issue in CS6.
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Apr 4, 2011
in my plug-in, I want to show the progress bar of a operation.I used AIUserSuite(AIUser.h) like ----
sAIUser->SetProgressText(ai::UnicodeString("Progress Bar"));
sAIUser->UpdateProgress(currentOper + 1,max); // in a loop where currentOper is increasing
since both function does not return any error code so I am enable to get know what is being wrong . Is there other way to use this? Is this require multithreading?
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Nov 5, 2013
I've had a strange problem that happens every so often and is very annoying and time consuming. I'll be working in Illustrator CC and I save my work as pdf (with editing abilities preserved). Then when I open the file later, the last changes that I made to the file don't show in Illustrator, they are just gone, layers, changes - sometimes it is a lot of work lost.
The strangest part is that at the same time Bridge previews the updated file correctly, showing all the updates I made. And if I open the pdf in Acrobat, the changes are there as well. But in Illustrator they are not. So in the same moment I can look at the file in 3 programs but only two show it correctly.
Using a Mac and CC.
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Dec 3, 2013
I have 17.0.0 and have not been presented with the update yet. Is this normal? Did Adobe pull it? Do they roll out updates only to specific configurations?
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Aug 29, 2013
So last night I created some designs using the symbols provided in Illustrator. And when I opened the file this morning to continue working on it, all my designs were gone instead I was left with just a blank canvas. Is there is a chance of getting back my designs?
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Sep 5, 2012
I'm converting everything to curves and then export to illustrator but when the file opens in illustrator text is often filled in 'o's and p's usually fill in solid or do other weird things .
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Jun 1, 2012
URL....I need to be able to fill the white portions of this text/font..With a reddish color.But I need to remove the background piece surrounding the letters, and have, this:
Which was done in photoshop using the shape tool for the fill behind the text, then I selected the text area and hit inverted selection, and deleted the selection from the shape/fill layer.I've been playing around with pathfinder for a bit and can't get what I want.
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Jun 23, 2012
Is there a way to adjust the color of a pattern fill without changing the actual pattern?
Sometimes I do this by overlaying another solid color fill on top of the pattern fill, and use multiply or other blend modes. This works except when the pattern contains empty/transparent areas: in this case the solid color would pass through and affect the object below the pattern, which is unwanted.
So basically, is there a way to isolate the color change to a single object? I've tried with "Isolate Blending" and "Knockout Group" with no success...
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Jun 19, 2012
Illy CS5, Windows 7 x64
My gradient fill tool controls, that normally appear over the selected gradient-filled shape, are no longer showing up.
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Mar 7, 2013
I have a banner that I got from a vector eps file.
Now what I would like to do is fill the white background of the outline path...
See my image
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Jun 20, 2012
I rarely want my Compound Paths to have voids where overlapping takes place, but sometimes (and it seems random) I get voids anyway.
The Attribute Panel options don't seem to do anything.
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Jul 30, 2013
Is there a way that the background fill of a pattern can fill the whole pattern so that there aren't gaps like the above picture? So that it woudn't matter if you expanded the border there would always be a solid fill background?
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Mar 8, 2013
I am trying to get more familiar with Illustrator in meanwhile. Still have difficulties with some tasks.
I ve got designed a shape in illustrator which has to be need filled with image like a background. Imagine we have a circle and what I need is to fill only circle with costum picture, how to do that?
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Jan 9, 2013
I've been having a problem in illustrator for the last couple of days that I haven't had before. It doesn't just happen with this graphic, it has happened with other objects, even happened with a circle yesterday. It doesn't happen to all objects on the artboard though, just particular ones.
I've drawn these shapes with the pen tool, but the stoke and fill aren't aligned aligned with the path that I've drawn. It's causing issues when I resize (see image below) and also when I align. It aligns the path correctly but because that image doesn't match the path it looks wrong.
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Aug 30, 2013
Is there any way to apply a gradient like this...
to the wavy "lines" in a shape like this...
The shape is a compound path with a black fill & no stroke. Alternatively, is there any way to convert that shape to individual horizontal & vertical wavy lines?
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