You hit the bullseye, dead center, stygg.
Mission accomplish! Post it in your gallery now!
-g
You hit the bullseye, dead center, stygg.
Mission accomplish! Post it in your gallery now!
-g
Actually, Larry hit upon a related topic when he mentioned simplifying a text character to reveal control points.
I don't know if any of you have ever tried to import an EPS vector file, not an AI Illustrator file or a PDF, but an EPS that contains only vector info. I've attached a Xara file that contains what appears to be three hexagons, but they are not shapes...but instead they are a line, and this used to be a perennial problem between me and clients: EPS allows open paths to contain fills, unlike Xara. When Dover Publications offers EPS files, same problem. Illustrator doesn't mind filling and open path, but it tends to flummox Xara users.
So how do you make a shape out of a line? It's not as simple as closing the line, because a line can have hundreds of control popints...will you spend hours finding the control points needed to close it?
You do what Larry suggested: you put a square or a circle right on the colored area of the EPS design, select both and then choose Arrange>Combine Shapes>Add Shapes.
The result is a shape, not a line, that you can now work with.
My Best,
Gary
I must be missing something here Gare. I opened the file and broke the shapes and guess what, they were shapes with no line. I could color each of them and put a line around each. Even unbroken I could add a line, but it put it around each hex. Hellllllllllp! what am I doing wrong here.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.
I got the same result as you Larry by breaking the shapes first got shapes, so I undid all and used the rectangle method and that worked just the same so it looks like you can use both methods just as you can with text.
Stygg
Thanks Stygg. I'll have to look at that again in case I committed a a fopa.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.
Ever since Gary posted the Magritte painting it fascinated me because I have no idea what it's saying or depicting, perhaps nothing. So being a not well up on art bloke, I thought I'd put my slant on it depicting something simple and carrying on the Apple on the wall theme.
Stygg
Larry a.k.a wizard509
Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.
Just read up on surrealism Larry, it's art from the sub-consciousness or dreams of a weird or sexual nature. See what I can dream up tonight then
Stygg
Well if your going to put an apple in your mouth and hope the archer can hit it with his arrow then your asking for trouble Seriously though, I did enjoy making the background as for an artist, I'm certainly not. These matchsticks are hurting my eyelids
Stygg
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