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Jennifer5EF5
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November 11, 2020
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Odd color and transparency behavior - possible glitch

  • November 11, 2020
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I am working on a personal logo and created a simple vector object in Illustrator that I then applied a color and a transparency to.

 

Everything was working fine until I slid it up to another layer to be in position on top of other art. In this process, it lost its transparency YET --  the palette still indicated that the transparency was applied. Attempting to adjust or reapply also fails. I deleted the color to reapply and rework, but - the color remains in the object even though the palette clearly indicates I have no color selected for this object.

 

Anyone wanting to troubleshoot this, please see the attached .pdf file with illustrator layers which contains only the offending little piece of artwork. Curious to see how it displays/behaves on someone else's machine.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

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Correct answer Jennifer5EF5

I expnded the appearance and it is now behaving properly - however, all I had done was to merge the art in pathfinder and this was prior to the original application of transparency and color. Any insight into what may have transpired would be appreciated..

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Kurt Gold
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2020

There is a yellow fill applied at the layer level that overwrites the attributes at the object level.

 

Jennifer5EF5
Participant
November 12, 2020

Sliding the object from bottom to top layer, how could I have prevented this?

 

 

Jennifer5EF5
Participant
November 11, 2020

By the way, I am on a PC - most current version of Illustrator (updated today) - 

Jennifer5EF5
Jennifer5EF5AuthorCorrect answer
Participant
November 11, 2020

I expnded the appearance and it is now behaving properly - however, all I had done was to merge the art in pathfinder and this was prior to the original application of transparency and color. Any insight into what may have transpired would be appreciated..