It is strange that it is still as optional view option. Why You can't see it always on? reason not to see overprints? We have at least 3 printing reruns this year, where objects lost in pages, just because they where made white from overprinted blacks.
View 15 RepliesI got a PDF today that (besides being just a complete and terrible mess) has a basic vector shape in a clipping mask that won't let me turn off the overprinting.
When I select the whole object with clipping mask, the Overprint Fill box (in the attributes panel) has a hypen. When I click into the clipping mask or go to Object > Clipping Mask > Edit Contents and I select just the vector shape, the Overprint Fill box has a check in it, and I uncheck it. Then when I exit out and reselect the whole object I get the hypen again. I can also uncheck the hypen and the box is blank, but then when I deselect and select it again I get that evil hypen again.
way to turn off overprinting for a single object in Acrobat Pro my mind will figuratively explode.
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).
When i turn on overprint mode illustrator redraw is super slow. I made real siple file with two boxes from what one is overprinted.When i turn on overprint mode and try to move one of the box it will take time to redraw it on the new place and there is no drag view at all.
I need to use overprint mode quite often and its not an option right now with so slow redraw. Do i need to go back to use sc5?
Some polygons of one vector layer do overprint and some not. Do you know what can be a cause ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to export the overprint preview as jpeg/pdf ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to turn overprint white feature off so Illustrator will not allow white to overprint?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I were to select some text, then checkmark 'Overprint Fill' in the 'Attributes' pane, is there a way to tell with JavaScript that the text was set to overprint?
I've been experimenting with this code in ExtendScript, but it keeps returning false:
var doc = app.activeDocument;
$.write(doc.textFrames[0].textPath.fillOverprint + '
');
I have a logo that I ultimatly need rendered properly in a PDF to send for proofing. It has a overprint effect in it but I can't figure out a way to export it as a tif or jpg with a simulated overprint.
What I have tried:
Export as tif and export as jpg (from Illustrator CS5). Neither export has a simulate overprint option, and both export with a big green blob on top of everything (the green blob is the shape that is overprinting)
Save as PDF, press ready, defaults to view of green blob (not simulated overprinting)
Save as PDF, change to PDF 1.3, in advanced flattening I set overprint to preserve, and high resolution. Same result as above.
In a PDF I can turn on the overprint preview, but I can't make that a default (as far as I know). Additionally, I am sending this to a client, I don't want to have to tell him "Oh, and by the way, here are the 10 steps to simulating overprinting in PDFs!"
Also I have tried to import from PDF to Photoshop and there is no option for simulated overprint there as well.
Also, I don't care if it is just a jpg or tif placed into a PDF, I don't need to preserve vector for this portion of it. If I can, then great, if there is a solution but I can't find, It is only for presentation at this stage.
I¨m working on a RGB document; it´s not going to be printed, but I need to simulate the overprint effect and also to use some "out of gammut" RGB colors that display very different on CMYK. I have the overpirnt preview checked; also, the objects I want to overprint have the Overprint Fill checked on the Attributes window. I even tried converting to spot colors, since I got the "In RGB documents, overprinting only affects spots colors" message. Still, no overprint preview.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to export a layered PSD of my AI file and I keep having problems with it merging the layers because of the overprint settings.
I've been trying to go through and turn off the overprint in my objects, but I have a photo that's cropped by a rectangle shape, and the Overprint Fill option under Attributes is greyed out. What must I do?
Whenever I enable Overprint Preview Illustrator seems to add grids on/over my document.
When I disable it, it dissapears. I find this strange because to me the opposite sounds more logical.
Will these grids be printed if I choose to print?
Rather than drop shadows knock fuzzy holes in underlying separations, is there a way to set a Drop Shadoo to always overprint?
View 2 Replies View Relatedneed to know how to overprint color tif on white background
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to overprint a PMS colors using Applescript. I though if I changed the property of the selected items fill color from (fill overprint:false) to (fill overprint:true) it would work. This doesn't seem to change a thing.
This is the script I am currently using:
script ChangeOverprint
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
local docRef
[Code]....
This is the picture of a simple document I created. The elipse has fill overprint:true. The polygon has filr overprint:false. The original value for the property fill overprint was false. I changed it in the script to true. Which the log shows it changed.
I have an action with a number of items to do prior to releasing/proofing a file to print. I can record overprint preview using insert menu item, but this toggles to on or off depedning on what the last.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to export the overprint preview as jpeg/pdf ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI prepare graphics mostly for print, so I like to turn on the Proof Colors view and Overprint Preview views. It's a pain to turn these on for each document. Is there a way to make these the default viewing settings in Illustrator CS6?
I tried creating an action to do it, but the Insert Menu Item command in actions causes Illustrator to crash every time, and the help file seems to say that View commands are unavailable to actions. So I'm not sure if that's a bug. Oddly, Photoshop has the very useful File> Scripts> Script Event Manager that let's me turn on Proof Colors (via an action) whenever a document is opened. It works very well. However, Illustrator does not appear to have these options. I found the View> New View options in Illustrator. They let me create a view that turns on Overprint Preview, but absolutely refuse to turn on Proof Colors. So it's the same number of clicks and pointless.
Illustrator CS6, v. 16.0.3 64-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I have an indesign document with logo in it that I want to set to overprint. I have the logo selected, but the overprint fill box in the attributes panel is greyed out and I cannot select it. How can I get the logo to be set to overprint?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI currently have my preflight set up to detect Overprint errors. When they pop up, I'm usually able to either fix it directly in InDesign from the Attributes panel or modify the source eps in Illustrator. However, I am running into a situation on this particular file in which I am getting Overprint errors on linked TIF files. It's not letting me change it from within the Attributes panel of InDesign or from Illustrator. What can I do to get rid of these Overprinting errors?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHere to my issue:
In Corel Draw X6.1 I have a grayscale bitmap that I want to set as overprint over a rectangle with 60% (cmyk) black. This does not work as the white box is visible in both the preview and separations. If I set the rectangle to a spot colour it works, but in separations I get the image on a separate plate (colour) which is not what I need. I tried duotone vs cmyk, duotone vs spot, spot vs spot, etc none works, every time I have the same color for the bitmap and the rectangle it does not work.
When you print a file from corel you have the option to choose always overprint black, but when I make a pdf with publish to pdf in the advanced tab I have only the option to preserve document overprint, and the black text is knocked out. Is there a solution to that, other then manually setting black text to overprint fill in corel?
View 11 Replies View RelatedSo I'm a novice at making 3D objects in Illustrator. I'm attempting to make a cut sphere in Illustrator. I'm not sure if what I want to achieve is best done through pen tool and gradients or 3D revolve. Here are some screenshots of my attemps thus far:
This one is with the pen tool:
This is as far as I got with the 3D Revolve:
I'm trying to have a sphere within a sphere, with the outer sphere being cut revealing some of the inner sphere. The outer sphere will have a lower opacity.
Im trying to make a web wireframe in Illustrator CS6. From a tutorial I watched I started to make slices for different components on my web page by going object>slice>make. However when ever I saved it and opened the file up again the slices were gone. Also, I tried to save selected slices by going to file>save selected slices and also file>save for web but neither of these methods worked and the save slices never showed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've got CS6 and Windows 7. I have the 2D artwork packaging file for a new product and I'm trying to make a 3D view of the box. I've created the 3D version of the box with the 3D Extrude & Bevel, then am using the map art feature to map the artwork to the appropriate 6 panels of the 3D box. The front panel worked great, now am trying to do the top panel and I'm getting a weird result. This is the first time I'm trying to map art like this, so I'm not sure what the problem is. See screenshot below. The problem areas are circled in red. (The blue areas look weird as I had to crudely remove the graphics for privacy reasons.)
If you look at the left circled area, that white stripe should have straight edges from front to back, but I can't get it that way. The right circled area is a random diaganol blue stripe that shouldn't be there. The front panel is fine.
I have an illustration that I'd like to turn into a complex dot-to-dot. It has about 1,500 anchor points.
Option 1. I first investigated to see if there was a way to simply select all anchor points, and convert them into dots... removing the line segments.
Option 2. If I could break up all the line segments at once, I could then apply a pattern brush to them that has one color for the line and a different color for the end point, and then select the color for the line and delete all that is in that color, leaving only the end points. That would work, but I can't seem to find any cutting tool that allows me to select all anchor points at once and cutting them. The scissors only lets you cut one at a time. The slice tool and all the plug ins I've looked at don't seem to do the job.
Option 3. The illustration is one continuous line. I tried to apply a pattern brush to it that has a black dot assigned to the corner segments... but, as we all know, those corner segments get distorted unless the angle is 90 degrees. I don't think this will work.
Option 4. I saw a tutorial that just selects the line and assigns a dotted line to the whole line, then expand it, and delete all the 'in-between' points... that seems very time consuming. It would be quicker I think to just use the brush tool, create a new layer, and manually go to each of the anchor points of the illustration and add the dots manually. I'm trying to avoid that.
I have 96 of these illustrations to do, so it would save me TONS of time.
Adobe Illustrator question: How do you make halftone 3D? As in not just different sizes of circles, but contour the ellipses to the grid of the shape. The Warp tool sort of does this but I need a more precise method. Also the result needs to be in vector.
View 2 Replies View RelatedURL....Everything works fine until I get to the part where it says to: 'Copy the crimson circle and Paste it In Front'..first of all I think the copy should cover everything else, right? At least it looks that way in the tutorials' picture. Well, it doesn't cover and it seems to stay in place.
I look in the Layers palette and it shows that a Copy has been made and I look under Edit and it says under Undo: Undo Paste In Front.Next I am suppose to Select the Crimson Circle Copy and The Blend and then go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make
Rather than it working I get an Error Message that says: 'Can't Make Clipping Mask, The Top Selected Object Must Be A Path, A Compound Shape, A text Object Or A Group Of Those'
No matter what I do I cannot make a Clipping Mask in this manner.I have read a lot about Clipping Mask today and have looked in the FAQ's to no avail.
how to make this effect below show in the green box.See how it is lighter in the middle....darker around the edges...it looks like the bonnet of a machine.I have tried a gradient but nothing works.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working on an idea for a brand and I can't for the life of me figure this out. You know how you can strip the insulation on a wire and twist the copper together?
Example: [URL]
How would I be able to reproduce something similar in Illustrator? I've been racking my brain and scouring the web for hours today and it seems that not too many people do this. I was even looking for tutorials on how to make a barber pole sort of effect. No dice.
I want to make vinyl wall art. How I would go about making this example in .ai cs6
This example shows ZALESNY over a lighter background...