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Illustrator "outline view" vs. corel "Wireframe view"
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victor bogdanov
Active Member
You need to outline the A in illustrator and it will show up the same way as in corel. If it is still a text object in will show black like you're seeing. select the text, right click then "create outlines"
victor bogdanov
Active Member
But corel is lying to you showing it as an outline when it is not
Gino
Premium Subscriber
Evidently, you don't realize..... in Illy, if you go into 'effect'..... then hit 'pathfinder', then hit 'outline', the text becomes an outline and you can still work it as text. Then, turn it back into regular text again.
victor bogdanov
Active Member
victor bogdanov
Active Member
I have never checked for "anomalies" behind text
Gino
Premium Subscriber
Sounds like your problem has to do with your way of doing things. If you type a simple 'A' on the screen, what do you expect to find behind a letter ?? If there is something lurking back there, then YOU put it there and forgot about it. If you're relying on a customer's file to be print ready...... welcome to the wonderful world of computers. BC this was never a problem, not once in all my years did I ever see that in hand made anything. It's probably a computer glitch or user error.
JBurton
Signtologist
Just a worst case example, and honestly not related, but I've been waiting to share this one.
We ordered some tiny reverse channel letters to go on a monument. We got a digital pattern, and sent it to a waterjet company to cut some 1/4" corten steel for us to use as the rusty background. Everything arrived, got assembled, and then I got a call from my fabricator, asking what the hex shaped hole was for. Turns out, the company making the letters had 'dropped' a random hexagon on the pattern they gave us, it was just passed along by the sales guys, never hit my desk, so the waterjet guy didn't even think twice about loading and cutting the file. So, our nice 4x8 rusted monstority with 120 letters mounted to it has a pair of hexagon holes in the face. Ended up having to 'order' these parts to get cut, drive 2 hours round trip to pick them up, and glued them from the back side, since welding this stuff stands out when it rusts.
Can you see it?
Gino
Premium Subscriber
This really has nothing to do with your original question ?? If you're looking for problems, therre are many more in other areas.
Ronny Axelsson
New Member
Really?
The OP shows where it could be of importance to know whether the text will be cut correctly or split up in pieces, and where a quick look in wireframe/outline mode would be an easy way to find out.
Regarding "hidden objects" that was mentioned, I have noticed over the years that files created in Illustrator have a tendency to have invisible/hidden objects and empty text blocks (when the user has accidentally clicked or dragged with the text tool) on and outside the drawing area, and the wireframe mode in Draw is also here a quick and easy way to find and get rid of them, even if they should be behind text.
And (FWIW) in addition to the wireframe mode, Ctrl+clicking a layer's color bar in CorelDRAW's Object docker will make that particular layer show in colored wireframe mode. Very useful.
Maybe there's something similar in Illustrator now, but I have not been able to find it in my old CS5.
Gino
Premium Subscriber
Yes, really.
In the opening post, he asks one question, which was answered using various methods. He asked to see BEHIND the letters, not how they're created.
Then, he later shows and admits it's another case of needing to know. Totally different, because that was not created in either/or program, so he's introducing a completely new request.
You, yourself also mentioned about things appearing, but they were all created by committing mistakes, which I already said, he or someone is doing something(s) wrong.
For us the hidden mistakes are usually created by another person's designer, who does things their way, by using 1,200 masks or the big one is fonts, we don't have.
Many ways to make things look like they'll work, but normally only sign designers/computer operators will do it to your liking. A designer who's background is doing things for websites, magazines and other non-sign related formats use their programs how they see fit. Then, you have the weekend warrior designers who do everything in raster and just call it a vectorized file.
Oh yeah, don't forget little Sally, the owner's niece who was good at etch-a-sketch and got an 'A' in art class.
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
so...whats it called in flexi?