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The way I do it is to create a parallel line the same angle as the slant, then rotate the line 90 degrees and create my Linear fill using the rotated line as a guide.
Gary W. Priester
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Can you not start with a vertical shape and gradient (hold ctrl while creating the linear gradient to constrain) then rotate the result and slice (trim) the top and bottom?
In this way, the gradient fill will follow any angle. Easiest way I can think of
I have used Gary's method many times as it works on art after the fact (placed, rotated, etc.) when I want to add such an effect to something.
Oops! I just realized, that we are all Xara users responding to an Illustrator-based question.
Never mind.
Gary W. Priester
Mr. Moderator Emeritus Dude, Sir
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Indeed... Not the first time I've done it either
clearly the answer is to switch to xara
If someone tried to make me dig my own grave I would say No.
They're going to kill me anyway and I'd love to die the way I lived:
Avoiding Manual Labour.
Absolutely, become a Xara user and you'll have no end of prompt help..
Yes, but some of us use AI as well...
Xara's gradient tool is superior to use over AI's. Far faster, less fiddly. The method you show is as fast a means for the simple shape that the OP showed regardless of the two applications. At least for adding gradients to an angle.
I spent a few hours this afternoon making sample files for people on another forum...I'll await the OP's file to play with rather than reinvent the wheel.
Mike
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