excessive clipping masks
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- fourthgen
anyone else hate designers who use multiple clipping masks in illustrator?
why do people do this???!?!!?!
- dog_opus0
I'm finishing up a photorealistic pen that has three. Sometimes they're just easy for certain parts of a job. I don't have anyone else working with my files, though, so it's never a problem.
- fourthgen0
i mean I use them from time to time when it's needed. but it seems like people need to use the pathfinder instead. I keep getting files with 7-10 clipping masks layered on each other. How do people even work with files like that?
at least/crop or trim if you are going to send that file to someone else
- MrOneHundred0
Saving files into PDF format can result in numerous clipping paths. Maybe the files you have received were, at some point, PDFs.
- October0
whats their email? i'll send them a link to this post.
- Jnr_Madison0
1st world problems.
- MrOneHundred0
I’m so on the edge, whenever I use the Pathfinder, I’m holding down the option key to make that sucker FINAL!