illustrator craziness
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- barbtastic
have any of you pasted vector art from one doc to another and had certain shapes re-color themselves in the new doc once pasted?
is this is bug or a setting i can change somewhere?
any ideas would be SENSATIONAL!!
- lvl_130
do they contain gradient fills/masks by any chance?
- barbtastic0
no, just solid colors.
- 7340
different profile on the new doc? differing profiles between file types? ie. .ai vs. eps
?
- lvl_130
hmm...using cs2/3? or a previous version?
did you create the original and then pasted it into a new doc? ie. it was creating on the same machine with the same version of illo?
- i use cs3, some of my clients are cs2, so they get passed back and forth sometimesbarbtastic
- lajj0
do you are in the same color space in all the doc ?
because copy from an CMYK doc to a RGB cause things like that
- harlequino0
Any warp or distort effects on them? You might flatten the shape first.
- barbtastic0
just had another designer here try to paste my work into their doc and ask me about it, but i have had it happen to me before, yet didn't bother researching it b/c i was on a deadline and had no idea what to search for...
- lajj0
maybe there is a fill or stroke color assigned to the layer ( Layer Appearance palette) ?
- spendogg0
if it isn't too complicated try to expand appearance or flatten transparency. that usually takes care of any voodoo in my vectors.
- smpl0
any swatches in the old and new doc have the same name? that could cause the problem, just change the name...
- what he saidGreedoLives
- no, totally different colors and namesbarbtastic
- GreedoLives0
probably a swatch that has the same name but is a different color
- what he saidhorton
- no, that's not the case... it's changing them to random swatches in the new docbarbtastic
- horton0
perhaps uisng custom global color swatches and the warning dialogues have been turned OFF... although not sure if thats possible.
- barbtastic0
thanks for all the ideas... i will fwd to dude and see what he says.
the only time this happened to me was when i was using patterns off of a stock pattern disc, and it was changing the colors from the stock vector document to the colors i had in my palette, but it was actually saving me a crapload of time, so if anyone knows why this would happen, i'd love to know why so i can plan on being lazy in the future.
- i think you can do this now in CS3 via the edit/ edit colors/ recolor... although i haven't explored the features just yethorton
- oo i wll check this out :Dbarbtastic
- GreedoLives0
instead of copy/pasting them, maybe place them instead. or try taking everything out of the offending file and combine everything in a nice new fresh file.
other than that, i'd say your illy is haunted.
- Jeremyhead0
its because you have the color as a spot color and the new doc possibly has the same spot color name but as a different color.
- barbtastic0
thanks menz... kisses to all