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- CygnusZero4
Googled this and couldnt find it. In Illustrator you can use an effect called round corners on an object. Well when you then try to combine that object with another, the round corners tries to reapply itself and gets all messed up.
Is there a way around this? Maybe some way to flatten the object that has the round corners effect on it?
- d_gitale1
expand first
- CygnusZero4-3
please elaborate
- Projectile2
object>expand / expand appearance
This will turn the rounded corner effect into an actual rounded corner shape. You won't be able to edit the roundness of the corners any more, though.
Otherwise just group the objects and add any fill and effects via the appearance panel, this way you can still double click into the group and edit the shapes. (Unless this is when you found that it messed up?)
- CygnusZero40
Perfect, thanks fellas!
- CygnusZero4-1
Another question. I created a rounded corner box. I need to scale it down, but of course the rounded corners keep their settings and wont scale down.
I assumed this would need to be expanded, except that the expand option does nothing, and expand appearance is greyed out. Any ideas?
- Double click the scale tool and check the option "scale strokes & effects". You can also check this in the transform panel. http://www.beanillus…Cosmodrome
- monospaced1
Appearance panel
- CygnusZero4-2
And do what their? Looks like thats just for stroke and fill.
- *thereCygnusZero4
- to modify rounded cornersmonospaced
- it's for much, much, MUCH more than fill and strokemonospaced
- Not trying to modify corners though.CygnusZero4
- You indicated that the rounded corners "keep their settings and won't scale down" so we all assumed you wanted to modify them.monospaced
- CygnusZero4-2
Well the flatten transparency feature worked. I have no idea what that does but whatever.
- monospaced1
First, the Expand should work. you may have to run it twice.
Second, the Appearance panel is a huge part of Illustrator. It's how you can modify effects and graphics non-destructive.
For rounded corners, it shows up there so you can modify it whenever you want. I just took this screenshot to show you.
- this is rounded rectangle, but works with corners the samemonospaced
- islandbridge1
Go to Preferences / Generel.
Check "Scale strokes & effects"
- CygnusZero41
When I make a rounded rectangle, it does not show up in the appearance panel.
- Drawing with the Rounded rectangle tool is different from applying round corners to a rectangle.monospaced
- monospaced3
Two ways to do rounded rectangles
1) Rectangle with Round Corners... Effect applied
2) Rounded Rectangle ToolHere are both rectangles, one in each method:
And here they are in Outline mode to illustrate the difference:
When you scale the first one, the radius measurement will be preserved in the settings (Appearance panel) regardless of size. When you scale the second one, the corners will scale with it. If you Expand the first one, it will turn into the second one.
Hope that helps. Cheers.
- CygnusZero4-2
Ok, so back to where I started, how do I take that basic shape and outside of changing something in preferences, flatten it so that when it scales, the corners scale with it?
I know ive done this before using the expand appearance feature on a rounded rectangle (not an object with an effect), but that is suddenly grayed out now.
- They already scale with it.monospaced
- They'll even distort with it if you don't scale proportionally.monospaced
- MrT1
In CC they've introduced a 3rd way to round corners, using the handles available with the direct selection (hollow) arrow.
These scale like an effect (or not, toggled in the scale preferences) but behave as though they are expanded, ie. the same in preview as in outline.
Not sure if this is a direct help but Cygnus, if you're using this method to round corners, they'll behave slightly differently, again.
- 'Live corners'
https://helpx.adobe.…MrT - well fuck me, Adobe, a 3rd way?monospaced
- Yeah fuck feature refinement, just add another half-baked one!MrT
- 'Live corners'
- detritus0
Really now, why can't I easily load in a multiple page PDF into Illustrator without a 3d party plugin? It's fucking 2016.
I fucking hate Adobe.
- check this out:
https://github.com/a…sted - Thanks, but I just don't see why this isn't a default capability in Illustrator... except for their wanting to push fucking inDesign down my throat.detritus
- I find multi-page in illustrator really wonky.Gnash
- I could understand if multi-page PDFs were solely long text tracts, but there are load of non-publishing requirements for multi-page PDFs.detritus
- agreed, especially since the default for a multi-page document export is a multi-page pdfmonospaced
- the choice to put each page on a layer AND/OR on an artboard would be awesome toomonospaced
- check this out: