URGENT Adobe Illustrator file check/help please!

Mad Ax · 09-02-10, 11:59

I know this is IT support but I'm on a deadline to get some designs out by this afternoon and something I've been working on for an age has just royally fouled up.

Can somebody with Adobe Illustrator please check the following file:

www.foxholemusic.co.uk/_Bin/opie.ai

Can you tell me if it opens as a proper OPIE logo, or as a black blob?

I work with CorelDRAW but my cutting company needs all designs in .AI format. CorelDRAW can export files to AI format, but when I re-open the AI format in CorelDRAW this particular logo is getting screwed up. I've been hammering it for an hour and can't figure out why this one individual logo won't work (considering all the other ones are perfectly fine).

I'm wondering if it's just CorelDRAW not interpreting the AI file correctly.

RiceBurner · 09-02-10, 12:02

if this thing has a virus, I will hunt you down and do nasty things to you...

Slenver · 09-02-10, 12:03

Well, black blob, but it looks like all the paths are there. There's just something filled in where it shouldn't be.

AI CS3/Mac.

Mad Ax · 09-02-10, 12:04

if my PC has a virus, you will have to join the queue, right after the IT manager, the managing director, and everyone on my address book :p

RiceBurner · 09-02-10, 12:05

its coming out as a black blob, there's no white layer.

In Corel - you may have to select all the layers before exporting?

Mad Ax · 09-02-10, 12:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slenver

Well, black blob, but it looks like all the paths are there. There's just something filled in where it shouldn't be.

AI CS3/Mac.

Bugger. That's what I'm getting. CorelDRAW saves the entire logo as a single object, but when it saves it to Adobe format it breaks the object apart into component objects, and for some inexplicable reason all the white spaces are created as black objects instead. I don't get it

RiceBurner · 09-02-10, 12:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slenver

Well, black blob, but it looks like all the paths are there. There's just something filled in where it shouldn't be.

AI CS3/Mac.

I get a compound path for the black outline in layer 1, but nothing else - no text or anything

(AI CS3 PC)

RiceBurner · 09-02-10, 12:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Ax

Bugger. That's what I'm getting. CorelDRAW saves the entire logo as a single object, but when it saves it to Adobe format it breaks the object apart into component objects, and for some inexplicable reason all the white spaces are created as black objects instead. I don't get it

Cut the white text out of the black background??

Mad Ax · 09-02-10, 12:08

Ok thanks for checking guys. Might have to go back to substitute something else 'cos I've wasted enough time on it now, deadling approaching :p

Zanx · 09-02-10, 12:10

Just getting an outline of a rectangle here (CS on a PC).

Slenver · 09-02-10, 12:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by RiceBurner

I get a compound path for the black outline in layer 1, but nothing else - no text or anything

(AI CS3 PC)

Have you looked in Outline view?

RiceBurner · 09-02-10, 12:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slenver

Have you looked in Outline view?

say wha??

I'm a php dev, not a graphics nancy...

Slenver · 09-02-10, 12:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by RiceBurner

say wha??

I'm a php dev, not a graphics nancy...

09-02-10, 11:59	#1
Mad Ax Not Much To Do Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lurking among the gothic shadows of Bath Posts: 373 Cash: £1702800 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 0/0	URGENT Adobe Illustrator file check/help please! I know this is IT support but I'm on a deadline to get some designs out by this afternoon and something I've been working on for an age has just royally fouled up. Can somebody with Adobe Illustrator please check the following file: www.foxholemusic.co.uk/_Bin/opie.ai Can you tell me if it opens as a proper OPIE logo, or as a black blob? I work with CorelDRAW but my cutting company needs all designs in .AI format. CorelDRAW can export files to AI format, but when I re-open the AI format in CorelDRAW this particular logo is getting screwed up. I've been hammering it for an hour and can't figure out why this one individual logo won't work (considering all the other ones are perfectly fine). I'm wondering if it's just CorelDRAW not interpreting the AI file correctly.
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Slenver Kiss my aura, Dora Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,112 Cash: £3608900 Thanks: 73 Thanked: 222/201	Re: URGENT Adobe Illustrator file check/help please! Well, black blob, but it looks like all the paths are there. There's just something filled in where it shouldn't be. AI CS3/Mac.

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Mad Ax Not Much To Do Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lurking among the gothic shadows of Bath Posts: 373 Cash: £1702800 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 0/0	Re: URGENT Adobe Illustrator file check/help please! Ok thanks for checking guys. Might have to go back to substitute something else 'cos I've wasted enough time on it now, deadling approaching :p
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URGENT Adobe Illustrator file check/help please!

I know this is IT support but I'm on a deadline to get some designs out by this afternoon and something I've been working on ...