Minus Front on Gradient

Question

Hey all!

I have been trying for so long to find a solution to this but keep coming up short and thought you all might be able to help.

Whenever I try to use the Minus Front feature in Pathfinder on an object with a Freeform gradient like below:

it will change the gradient to apply seperately to the new divided parts like this

when I'm trying to just remove a part without altering the gradient. It seems to do this perfectly fine to the Linear gradient, but with Freeform and Radial, it changes once the Minus Front is applied.

Any advice?

Ton Frederiks · Accepted Answer

Yes, I was just about to say the same thing. I do not get the gradient divided across the new shapes, just mismatched like you've shown Tom. Is there a solution for this?

I found a workaround.

Normally selecting the freeform gradient and the shape on top should give you the expected result when you click Make Mask in the Transparency panel. But that behaves buggy.

The workaround is to first group the freeform gradient (even though it is a single object) and then select the freeform gradient group with the object on top and make the mask (you may need to change the clip and invert boxes).

BirdyA123 · Answer

Make the 2 shapes a compound path.

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