live trace problem double cutting

[joelswork]

Hey guys (and ladies),

I have cut tons of vinyl for my little niche banking market, all door hours, installed nationwide for a couple of years now with no problems. Now I have a few Christmas presents that I want to make from some jpg artwork and some freehand work scanned in but am having a problem. I open in in Illy (cs2), live trace, send to cut and bam! it cuts some parts twice. What am I missing (besides an education in Illy and most mental abilities). I'll sit back and just take the punches guys!

 

[joelswork]

if the arrow only pointed at me!

:iamwithstupid

 

[Malkin]

When you live trace (black & white) It creates a set of paths for the black and the white, with neither color overlapping the other. You will find that there are 2 sets of paths right on top of each other.

You will need to ungroup and/or release compound paths and delete the extras.

Fred has a tool that is also helpful with deleting duplicate paths, but I'm not sure where it's stashed at. Hopefully he will see this.

 

[Fred Weiss]

Each of these downloads will aid you in getting rid of unwanted paths.

 

[joelswork]

Thanks a ton guys!

 

[mark-s]

Which verisons of Illustrator will this work with?
Thanks
mark-s

 

[Fred Weiss]

They're rated to work with CS. I have CS 2 and they both work fine with that. If you're using a later version and have any problem, go to the sites that distribute it and check for a later version. It's free ware and works great.

 

[jzorn]

Thanks Fred for the information. I thought it was just me that had this problem
John

 

[Fred Weiss]

I found about about both of them at the Adobe forums. The problem is common knowledge there and has been for some time.

 

[The Vector Doctor]

The easy way is to click on "ignore white" in the lower right. Check that and it gets rid of the duplicate shapes.