Illustrator :: Using Knockout In Appearance On Text To Punch Through

Mar 7, 2013

I would like to create a style where the white fill is knocking through the black fill in the appearance pallette. I cant seem to figure this out?

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Illustrator :: How To Knockout Arched Text Onto Object

Jul 24, 2013

I need to knockout my arched text onto an object. This is the process I have been trying:
 
Effect > Warp > Arch > ApplyI then select the text and the object together and click 'Divide' in the pathfinders window.  

However when I click divide the text reverts back to being a straight line of type. I really need the arch effect to be knocked out.

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Illustrator :: Arc Effect - Knockout Text From Background

Jul 2, 2013

I have text with an arc effect. I want the text to knock out of a background and stay in arc. I tried making a compound object and pathfinder but the text straightens out. How do I do it?

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Illustrator :: Trying To Knockout Outline Stroke Only Out Of Text

Jul 1, 2012

I run a screen printing business and I recently added some simple design services to my clients to bring in more business.I have attached the graphic which is a mock up of what I'm trying to do with the text.
 
I'm looking to have the white knockout to the background color. it's a black text in the center, a (what should be) knockout outline of that black text and then another black outline outside of that.how to set it up, order and arrange the text so I can simply keep the look of the white knocking out to the shirt color.

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Illustrator :: Text To Knockout To Artboard While Keeping Strokes

Sep 15, 2012

I am creating a logo, and I want all black parts to be visible, and all white parts to be invisible.I work in Illustrator CS5, and I have text with multiple strokes on top of another object...I want only the inner fill of the text to knockout to the artboard, while keeping the strokes intact.
 
I tried "knockout" tool, pathfinder merge, creating outline from text, and nothing has worked so far.I've browsed online forums for answers and nothing works.
 
I want all the black to be one file, and remove all the white. I tried the "select same" function, but this didn't work either.

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Illustrator :: Getting Around Text Outlining For Preserving Appearance

Feb 18, 2014

I'm working in an Illustrator file that needs to use artwork that is in PDF form. I've been either placing the PDFs into the Illustrator file or opening the PDFs as Illustrator files. Either way, I'm getting a message that says "The document contains PDF objects that have been reinterpreted: To preserve appearance, some text has been outlined."
 
As you'll see in the attached, what ends up happening are these strange looking white lines that occur around the artwork (you'll notice them most around the CD in the center.) Is there anyway around bringing the PDFs in without having them reinterpreted? I do not want to make them jpegs and then bring them in.

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Illustrator :: Preserve Appearance Some Text Has Been Outlined?

Oct 22, 2013

When i open a PDF in acrobat X Pro, edit object, it open in Illustrator, its coming normal with all editable text, after making the changes saved the file. Again if I open same pdf in Illustrator (from as edit object in Acrobat X Pro) some text fields are becoming outline (The document contains PDF objects that have been reinterpreted: To preserve appearance, some text has been outlined.

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Illustrator :: Gradient Text Preview - Appearance Pane

Jul 22, 2013

Just passing along this preview "glitch" in CS5 that could cause some headaches or costly reprints.

We had a file where some text "appeared"on screen as a solid fill even though it was mistakenly filled with a gradient in the colour panel.

When the job was output the type was missing.

Upon investigation it was noted the text was filled with a gradient through the color panel....however the preview did not reflect this. The proper way to apply a gradient to text is in the appearance panel> add new fill>gradient.

This will preview the gradient in the text properly. Shouldn't there be an friendly error message or pop up to warn users that this fill option is not available?

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Illustrator :: Adding Text To Existing Appearance Panel?

Sep 30, 2012

Is it possible to add text to the fills, strokes, drop shadows & textures that I already created using the appearance panel? Seems like you can build upon text using the appearance panel, but not visa-versa. Is that correct? I thought I was being proactive using the appearance panel the other day to build a burst that I was later going to add text to. But now that I have the text I cant find a way to add it into the appearance panel. I got around it by making what I had built into a graphic style and then applying that to the text. But I had to redefine the shapes that I had originally built to make it work.
 
Also, is there any way to break these elements apart when you use transform in the appearance panel? For instance, sometimes I will create a pattern using the transform tool and then I am asked to change the color of the shape in the middle.

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Illustrator :: How To Punch Out A Path Out Of Image

Mar 4, 2014

I know how to punch out a path out of a shape. Now I have an image. With the image the substract/minus option does not work like it works with a shape. What is the easiest way to do this? N.B.: the path is quite complicated, so redrawing it with the pen tool is the last thing I want to do.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Creating Punch Converting Text To Sketched Symbol?

Nov 5, 2013

I have been given the task of figuring out a way to have etching placed on our parts to show the part number of the part. The end goal is to get the parts laser cut but have the part number etched into the part.Is there a way to convert text (i.e. 12345) to a sketched symbol that the punch feature would recognize and then add it to the library? Right now we are using 2012 but will be upgraded to 2014 within the next 6 months.

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Illustrator :: How To Punch Holes In A Circle Using Compound Paths

May 14, 2013

I am relatively new to Illustrator.  I am using CS6.
 
I am trying to punch holes in a circle using compound paths, as you can see here :

The tadpole shape and the human shape are the holes I need created in the large circle behind them.  Both the tadpole and the human are at the front and all objects are on the same layer.  When I select everything and choose CRTL+8, only the tadpole gets cut into the circle.  the other shape just stays white.

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AutoCAD 2013 :: Model Space Text Appearance

Mar 1, 2013

How to rectify my model space text issues for a set of drawings.  There are approximately 12 drawings which all have the same problem.  I have not seen this problem in other drawings.

The text in model space appears bold and rough.  I have checked that all the text is set on the 0 Z plane. I have taken the following corrective actions and have not had success:

-Confirmed text is at Z=0
-Reset the UCS to world
-Changed the Z coordinate to arbitrary number and set it back to 0
-Checked that drawing & viewports are 2-D Wireframe
-Other Desperate Measures: Purged, Audited, Created in PS then move to MS

We had a CAD temp. that set up the drawings who is no longer with us, so I have clue what he did to the drawings when setting them up.

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Illustrator :: Duplicating And Reapplying Appearance?

Sep 30, 2012

I want to create different gradients and effects on a shape and somehow copy them in the appearance panel and then reapply those gradients and effects on other shapes.

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Illustrator :: Freezing And Appearance Not Working?

May 28, 2012

For some reason to time I need Illustrator to be perfect and it fails on me ON EXAM WEEK.
 
I used it yesterday perfect for a good 3-4 hour session. I get on today and I notice that clicking on my groups and paths freezes it for around 5 seconds then works again. Isolation mode also takes a while to go in and then come out and when I minimize it it takes longer to open back up again (10 seconds).
 
That is also not the only problem
 
I'm trying to copy the appearance from one group to another by dragging the swatch in the appearance panel. When I apply it to an object that object turns invisble but I can still see the path it just has no fill or stroke

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Illustrator :: Expand Appearance Of Multiply?

Sep 14, 2012

I have a question about expanding appearance and multiply. I work in print-on-demand, and one of the limitations is that we can not use multiply on artwork. In order to achieve a similar appearance, when I receive these kinds of files, I flatten transparency, and that will sear in the way the multiply effect is interacting with the other elements of the same art file. (in the example below there are no interacting elements) However, if it is intended to interact with the background, I have to fiddle with the cmyk values (adding k) and opacity level until it is as close as possible. It is time-consuming.

we use 'expand appearnce' instead, and I tried it once and it worked! It did all the legwork for me; it spit out a different cmyk value and opacity level that mimics the effect of multiply, so I don't have to calculate it manually. However, I can't get it to work again. Illustrator thinks it is already its simplest form of appearance and will not expand it further. I've tried adding another effect and expanding but it will only expand the effect and keep the multiply.

Maybe she and I were both tripping when we thought it worked once? how to expand the appearance of multiply? Here's a picture of the 3 methods I'm speaking to: on the left is multiply, the center is flattened transparency, and the right is achieving a similar effect of multiply with opacity & color build.

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AutoCAD 2010 :: Text Font Type Appearance On Screen

Oct 21, 2012

For some reason, my autocad application will not display the text type on screen correctly. This began on Friday of last week (10/19), and remains today (10/21). It is not simply one drawing file, but all drawing files that I open. When I initiate the MTEXT Editor, the correct font appears, but not in the drawing window.

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Illustrator :: Can't Modify Selection That Says Mixed Appearance

May 24, 2013

In older versions of Illustrator, I used to be able to make a selection of multiple objects and give them a stroke or other attribute. Now it says “Mixed Appearance” and I can't do anything to the selection. How do I modify a multi-selection if it says “Mixed Appearance?”

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Illustrator :: Can't Open Appearance Palette From Window Tab

Jul 27, 2012

I cannot open the appearance palette from the window tab. I am able to open all of them except the appearance palette. I have dual monitors and running XP. Adobe illustrator CS

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Illustrator :: CS6 Expand Appearance From Rounded Corners?

Jan 4, 2013

Expanding Appearance on a closed path with stroke, fill, and a Round Corners effect produces a group of two paths in CS6. A path with just a fill and a path with just the stroke.
 
Is there an option to just generate one path like CS5 and earlier?

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Illustrator Scripting :: Any Way To Script Expand Appearance?

Mar 19, 2012

I have created a method to create line art roof shingles row-by-row. I think something like this is a good candidate for scripting, but I run into a dead-end quickly when trying to script this. Basically, I use "expand appearance" multiple times during the course of this process and I can't find any way to script that action. I have heard about using MenuIDs, but I can't find anything on how to discover what the MenuID for "expand appearance" is.
 
I have also tried recording an action, but "expand appearance" doesn't get saved.

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Illustrator :: Getting Jagged White Edge When Expand Appearance?

Feb 20, 2014

I'm having this really annoying problem in Adobe Illustrator CC
 
When I use a tool such as the extrude and bevel tool to make an object 3D, it all works fine untill I have to expand the appearence then I get this edge on my object and I can't find any way to get rid of it.
 
Take a look at this pic to see what I mean [URL]
 
As you can see, their's an annoying white jagged edge and it's really annoying and I can't get rid of it.

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Illustrator :: Saving And Reusing Appearances From Appearance Panel?

Mar 2, 2013

1. How can I save the contents in my Appearance Panel so I can reuse it later?

2. How can I save the contents of my Appearance Panel from one file to another?

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Illustrator :: Error Occurred While Processing Appearance Of Object

Mar 6, 2014

I am constantly getting the error message: "an error occurred while processing the appearance of an object". I get this error even on very simple artwork, one layer / one filter. Having this problem with the "latest and greatest" version of CC products?

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Illustrator :: Appearance Palette - How To Rearrange The Stroke (Beneath The Fill)

Dec 12, 2012

I am new to the Appearance palette
 
See screen shot attached. (the text "Helvetica")
 
I have created some live text (ie: it remains editable)
 
I have given it a fill of black and a heavy (7pt) stroke of blue.
 
I cannot appear to rearrange the stroke so that it falls beneath the fill
 
I assumed it would simply be question of dragging it below, as one would with the Layers
 
However, when I converted the text to outlines (in this case the text "UNIVERS") it works.
 
And also why are the eyes in the first coloumn grayed out when the text is live. But not so when text is outlined?

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Illustrator :: Color Fill Objects After Expand Appearance Applied

May 6, 2013

Why can't I color fill objects after i applied the expand appearance?

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Illustrator :: Brushes And Appearance - Adding Additional Strokes To Same Line?

Oct 8, 2012

I am working with CS6 windows. I am having a problem when I made a brush, and add additional strokes to the same line.
 
Here is a pic of what is happening. You can see at the beginning of the arrow, there is a blue and pink link showing around the beginning of the arrow head. I added the pink and blue lines to the same line as the brush using the appearance tab. 
 
Now if I add a dash to the the pink and blue lines, this is what happens... There is a little pink and blue line at the very tip of the arrow head.  My dash options use for both the pink and blue lines.
 
My question is how to I get rid of this little line? What I am trying to do is.. use the black arrowhead on line with a stoke of 1 point black,  and then under that have a 3 point stroke of white.  In the image what is blue would be white, and what is pink would be black, and the arrowhead is correct as it is now. I had this same setup in CS4, and did not have that little line at the beginning.
 
here is my brush settings..

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Illustrator Scripting :: Make A Clipping Path While Retaining It's Appearance - Script

Dec 1, 2013

I've devised this script that "kind of" works.This script takes your selection, copies appearance attributes, and pastes them to the top object after clipping.It's currently limited in a few ways:

• It does not accept compound paths as clipping object (and I don't know how to test for it, nor how to iterate down said compound clipping object to set each path object to clipping separately)
• It only works with a single stroke or fill
• It does not understand "no fill" it will fill your object with white instead *FIXED*
• I'm hoping to use the "graphicStyle" property to copy the appearance, since that sounds way cleaner. But I don't understand how to.

Even with these limitations, I bound this to CMD+7 using fastscripts - I'm *already* used to it working this way!

#target Illustrator 
//  script.name = Clip Retaining Color.jsx;
//  script.required = at least two paths selected, top most path is the clipping mask;
//  script.parent = Herman van Boeijen, www.nimbling.com // 30/11/13;
//  *** LIMITED TO A SINGLE STROKE AND/OR FILL OF THE CLIPPING OBJECT***
//  Here's hoping to use the "graphicStyles" property to copy over the appearance.
[code]....

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Photoshop :: Corel Knockout

May 18, 2005

HiCorel Knockout.

I've heard that version 2 can only be installed as a plug-in, whereas version 1 was stand alone.

I've read that the advantage of the stand alone version is that it doesn't affect memory in the same way the plug-in would when installed in Photoshop.

Just wondered whever there is a huge difference in actual extracting performance between the versions, and whever stand alone versus plug-in is relevent.

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is it worth learning Knockout or are there better ways to extract?

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