Gradient and Compound Path

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September 9, 2021
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I'm looking to apply a gradiant over drawing I have done,

The issue I have is when I make a compund path it alters my drawing.

From this

To this

the drawing is a collections of Lines and Rectanlges with differing stroke values and this seems to be changed to one value when I make the compund shape.

is there a way to get a gradiant across this without the compund shape or is there a setting to stop the compuond shape process from chaning my drawing ?

thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

If you group your elements and create a gradient rectangle in the back, you can select both and make an Opacity mask in the Transparency panel (you may need to check the Clip and Invert Mask boxes).

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

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If you group your elements and create a gradient rectangle in the back, you can select both and make an Opacity mask in the Transparency panel (you may need to check the Clip and Invert Mask boxes).