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why does Illustrator slice my files to un-editable sections?
Hi – Anyone out there able to tell me why Illustrator (9) randomly (and seemingly without warning) decides to slice your file up into un-editable sections from time to time.
I have used Illustrator for years (I tend to use version 9 because CS used to cause problems with my RIP) and because this tends not to happen too often I just haven’t been bothered trying to find out what causes it.I have looked in the help but no clues there.
Its very frustrating if you have spent hours on a design only to find all your text, graphics and placed files chopped up into bits (ESPECIALLY when you haven’t finished).
The feeling I get is that it seems to flatten the file when saving it – it could be a memory thing or a setting that I am missing but I would appreciate it if any of you could throw some light onto this.
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When you are saving your Illustrator files are you saving to a lower version of Illustrator then what you have? Because that could be the problem.
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Hi Col,
As Jaclyn says, if you save to an earlier version of Illustrator, when you re-open the file it can split up any line of text into lots of annoying sections, even down to individual letters.
Not sure whether that’s your problem though because I only get that happen on text – never on graphics, or even text once it is outlined.
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I also have that sometimes, I just weld all the sections and the line disappears and forms a complete contour again.
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