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I am trying to seperate some art but need to expand all the strokes to objects in illustrator 10. It wants to only expand 1 line at a time. How can I make it do all of them? I need the seps done by tomorrow morning. PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks Richard imageonex@msn.com
-------------------- Richard Leigh Inept Clothing Posts: 33 | From: Temecula, California | Registered: Jun 2003
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I don't use expand to convert strokes to paths in Illustrator, I pull down the "object" menu to "path", & choose "outline stroke"
This will give a vector on both sides of the stroke. Then you may want to "release compound" & delete the inside line & the original center line, just keeping the contour that defines the outermost edge of what was formerly a "stroke" (I guess I'm assuming you had a fill & stroke of the same color to create trap)
Are you cutting your films in rubylith?
I do seps for a few shops & they just print to vellum, so the strokes are just fine to leave as strokes, but I often convert to paths when I set up EDGE jobs, or when I cut rubylith films.
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