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- rodzilla
alright, I think i'm an idiot. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.
This is what I am trying to accomplish.
http://www.dstrukt.comI cannot get my diagonal lines to match up perfectly within the my name.
Any light that can be shed would be greatly appreciated?
- rodzilla0
Oh and I am working in Illy. trying to create a swatch, but none of the diagonal lines are matching up.
- Antonelli0
not sure what you mean by matching up. but the pathfinder tool would do this in a second.
- rodzilla0
true, i'm not wanting to drag each individual line, i tried making a swatch.
The diagonal lines are not matching up.
- rodzilla0
bump, i'm dumbfounded, maybe i'm thinking to hard.
anyone have a simple explanation for this seamless pattern.
- Vinny0
are you trying to do the treatment on the type???
- digilee0
mail me the file and i'll take a look.
i'm sure it's something easy but I'm just not understanding what you're trying to do.
- Nairn0
So - you can make a seamless pattern for your stripes, but when you apply that to your letters, the stripes don't line up between each letter? Is that right?
If I were doing it, I'd try the letters as single-colour blocks (ie. don't do anything to them) then I'd create a rectangle of striped pattern that covers the text you want to treat, mask it with a duplicate of your text.
- neverblink0
to make a seamless diagonal pattern in Illustrator, make a seemless horizontal pattern.. save it as a pattern swatch. Apply this swatch to your type. And then do object>rotate set the tickbox of objects to off and set the tickbox of patterns to on.. set your rotation (45º).. finished.
- rodzilla0
Nairn,
That exactly what I am talking about. I know i can do it that way, but I wanted to figure out this swatch/pattern crap. Would come in handy at work.
Digiliee you have mail.
- Nairn0
Hmm, well unless your font is tightly monospaced and sharing the same grid as your pattern, I can't see it working any other way beyond masks.
- Nairn0
(that's a cue for version5 to prove me wrong, by the way :)
- rodzilla0
**awaits version5's skills
- GreedoLives0
when you make the pattern you have to make sure it's exactly at 45° angles. also, it's easier if you use a series of squares rather than lines, since the lines will lose a little triangle at each corner of the pattern swatch which is a pain in the butt to add back in correctly.
if you use small enough squares, it'll look just like a line from far away (at 72 dpi everything is pixellated anyways)
- tommyo0
Someone enlighten me. When did Version5 get 'skills'?
- Nairn0
tommyo - v5 helps out a lot, what more can I say?
- tommyo0
Yeah I was just messin'.
- tkmeister0
there's already a cross hatch pattern in illustrator. look at
Swatch Libraries > Other Libraries.
i think it's called basic graphical lines or something.