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Hey gang, terribly sorry for the late reply on my part but I just wanted to thank all of you for working so hard on this problem! I utilized owenr's method and it worked. You all saved my bacon

Hi all, I'm sending a label file to our label company and the art guy solely utilizes Illustrator. However, the last time I sent him a file of our labels (.eps), the layers didn't translate when he opened the files for some reason. What format plays best with Illustrator? I need it to have full edibility on his end, so any high resolution image files are off the table. If I can't figure this issue out, we have to have him manually set every single item up the correct way, and they're hourly rate is $150 – please, anyone with experience sending their files to a illustrator-only printer, walk me through this if it's possible. If it helps: the file has a bunch of one-color vectors, a single image, and then a gradient background (not an image file from an external source but set up inside of AD). Thanks in advance!

Would you mind explaining why doing them individually doesn't work? I've ungrouped them. I usually do them individually because all at once tends to make things slow down/freeze.

For the life of me, I can not figure out why doing the subtract function on this one letter is not punching through completely? Other letters previously posed a problem, but then for some reason they magically started working. It basically gives a SUPER thin line punched out instead of the actual letter as a whole. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here? I assume it has something to do with the large number of nodes on these letters specifically, but outside of that guess I'm stumped. To be absolutely clear as possible it's the green T in the file below that I'm trying to subtract from the black object behind it. Help.File.afdesign

A lady I'm doing a logo for is wanting to use it for a t-shirt. This is different than web/printing where I can just do a large non-editable file format... On this, idk what to do? I was reading and saw that people were having issues with their exporting because of the file types and the issues with gradients. I'm not able to verify if it'll affect my logo because I can't just pull it up in Adobe Illustrator (since I do not have that program). I tried to export it as a PDF, but there was some very strange, noticeable ghosting around shapes. What do I do? Thanks, Carter :(

I came here instead of the bugs to actually see if this is a common issue? I have tried to place text one a curve, specifically a perfect circle. When I do that, things start slowing down until its an unbearable chug as I try and move. Like to the point where it's basically unusable. But this is ONLY when I have the text on a curve selected to edit the text. Otherwise, as long as nothing/something else is selected, it moves along fine. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Also, somewhat related, how do I accurately position my text on a curve? I want it centered at the top of the circle, and not centered by my own estimations but perfectly centered by the programs number crunching. Obviously right now I can't even get to that, but once I can, I'd sure love to know how to accomplish this. Thanks in advance everyone, Carter

Wow. I feel dumb. Haha, thanks for the speedy reply LilleG!

I'm having trouble figuring this out. I feel it's an easy fix. I want a shadow that extends around the entire object, not just want way. Help me solve this probably easy issue. I searched and tweaked and did what I could to no avail. Thanks!

Could you please explain further what that means in regards to the program? Laymans terms preferrably, I'm unsure if that means I'm stuck with it or if theres a way to alleviate it/fix it? Thanks in advance sir :)

When I set my stroke alignment to "Align Stroke To Outside" I have VERY thin transparent line between the stroke and the fill. I'm assuming this is a bug because it's not thick enough of a line to actually be visually useful, yet it's just BARELY there enough to drive me OCD about it. Is there an easy setting fix for this? Thanks in advance :) Update: no matter how far I zoom in, it still stays a super tiny line (very scientific vernacular, I know). Maybe this is related to having the stroke set to "scale with object" ?

You're a gentleman and a scholar! Thank you :)

I'm building bicycle tire, with spokes. Right now I have it exactly how I want it, except the spokes... And I don't know how to get around it. So to make the spokes, I used the cogs feature. I did no fill with a stroke. The issue is when I scale-up the tire, the stroke of the cogs doesn't scale up, staying it's same .35 pt width. Any ideas on how to get around this? If theres a line function that I don't know how to use properly, please tell me a) that I'm stupid and b) how to do this in a symmetrical manner lol. Spoked_tire.afdesign

Ronny, Thanks for the help :) I'm currently running around campus so I don't have a chance to peel back the layers on your post, but I'll see what I can get to tonight and let you know how it goes.

Of course. I should have started off with pics. My bad. I'm doing simple and clean logos because I haven't yet mastered all arts of logometry :) so adding a "simple" washed out look would be an easy way to add some professional depth to my work. Hopefully the pics kinda give you an idea of what I mean. I know I could just paint it on, but I'm wanting it to be something that I use to edit the transparency on, like overlaid on an image and i can detract the underlying image down to almost see thru or all the way... Just know I haven't slept in the last 24 hours, so please forgive any incoherent rambling :P Thanks! -Carter

Anyone have any ideas? I'm sure there's got to be some easy quick way to do this, and for someone like me looking to do some logo work for friends, it would be a fantastic way to spice up the look of their logos and add another layer of professional finish to their pieces. Still dying to know how to do this :) -Carter