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can anyone tell me how you weld in Adobe please?
Hi,
HELP!!!!
I’m looking for a little help with Adobe Illustrator. It’s a program I don’t use but have for the purposes of opening up some files that customers send me. Anyway I’m trying to weld an object and can’t figure out how to do it in Illustrator. I’m running Illustrator CS and want to import this logo into Signlab or Corel but having no luck. It’s all over the place when I do. 😕Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Marcella
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I’m not an experienced user either (no CSeither) but the way I have found is using the pathfinder tool and here you can use intersect exclude etc etc. Just hilight the shapes you want to join and Intersect I suppose.
The way I have been doing most of my work was to draw an outline and exclude the bits I didn’t want but that was for pics mostly.
I’m sure someone more experienced will post later and explain I might learn something my self.
I hope this gets you started anyway.I always seem to get “bits” under the artwork when I import just watch for stray things in Signlab I do a sweep selection and see if anything odd is highlighted. Be sure and weld in Signlab as well as when it cuts it may cut a double line.
Goop.
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You can save your .AI file as a previous version, ie version 8, then open it in CorelDRAW 9 or above. Usually works.
Cheers, Dewi
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Mmmm….. selected the objects went to pathfinder and intersect but it made no difference. There appears to be outlines around them which is what I’m trying to weld, so that it’s a solid shape but can’y figure out how to????
When it’s in Illustrator it looks perfect but importing into Signlab or Corel it has what looks like drop shadows and outlines, like there’s been about 3 copies of it, one on top of the other. -
Same for Signlab (well 7 anyway save as earlier version) bl**dy missed that didn’t I dooohhh.
Goop
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OK Dewi, now I’m going to sound REALLY thick. But where can I choose what version of Illustrator to save it as? When I hit save as, there doesn’t appear to be an option? I don’t think I like CS…. my older version didn’t cause me these problems.
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Do a SAve As .eps, .ai or whatever and after you do that it gives you the Compatibility option click the arrow click version type and save when it tell you it might not be comatible with the version you are in.
Goop
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It doesn’t give me that option…… when I click save as and choose ai, that’s it, it just saves it, there’s no other options. I know from my previous version of Illustrator that I could choose which version, but either CS doesn’t do that or it’s very well hidden!
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right, to weld, you use the pathfinder pallette, and you choose which one you want, intersect etc, then you press the expand button that is on the pallette, this joins the shapes together so you cannot edit them as seperate entities,
don’t copy & paste from illustrator, I’ve found it doesn’t work as it should, unlike C/P-ing from signlab/corel into photoshop/illustrator etc. save it as an .EPS, or if your version of corel can accept it, a normal .AI
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Hi Marcella,
in CS you need to go to “file” then “export” and select Illustrator Legacy file and choose the version you want.
Hope this helps,
John. -
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Oh my GOD!!!! This is really doing my head in BIG time now!
Thanks John, now I see where I can save it as an older version. Unfortately the flaws are still all there. (:) (:) (:)
I cannot get rid of these extra outlines and shadows.
I’ve gone to the pathfinder palette as described and clicked intersect, there is no expand option on this palette as suggested. . . . .It doesn’t help when I know nothing about Illustrator, I need step by step simple instructions…….
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Um, what John said :lol1: Sorry Marcella, I was on the phone 😳
I think there is a way to export it as CorelDRAW file as well, I think its the Place command?!? Not sure on that one. Only other thing is you could upload the file onto here and a diddy list of what you want doing to it? 😕
Cheers, Dewi
Edit:Just as a thought, you could try exporting as WMF format and opening in Corel, it sometimes works okay.
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Thanks Dewi.
Saving it or exporting it into Corel isn’t helping the problem. I need to weld it in Adobe I think. As I said, when I select it, it appears to be drawn with outlines to thicken it and has layers behind it. I basically want to simplify it into one solid shape. For some reason it doesn’t matter how I export or save it, when it goes into Corel it doesn’t look the same so I can’t weld it in there as it’s been altered.
😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥
I think I’ll start with slashing my wrists…………
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Hi Marcella, I would suggest saving it as the lowest version it will let you, ver 4/5/6 or something like that – ignor any errors about effects not being supported and upload it to the forum for us to look at along with a JPG file of the original so we can see what it looks like in your CS. Sure we can help you out then 😉
Nigel -
In Flexi there is a ‘convert strokes to outlines’ option which helps with some illustrator files.
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Hi Marcella,
if your really struggling, e-mail me the file with a brief description of what your trying to do with it and \i’ll have a crack at it tomorrow morning. e-mail address is: john@express-graphics.co.uk. if you want to fax a sketch the number is 0141 429 4241.
Regards,
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Thanks guys!
I’ll have another go in the morning, if I get nowhere I’ll email it on to you John.For the record…… I imported into Flexi and tried that…. but still no luck!
I’m off to bed…. TFI Friday! 🙂
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Marcella, I’ve moved the post to Graphic Design Help & Discussion in case you want to attach the file, just in case John has any problems.
Cheers, Dewi
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