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J4e8a16n
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July 5, 2011
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path stacking in cs5

  • July 5, 2011
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Hi everybody,

Here is my problem:

When I create an object or a pattern, or else with multiple shape, Illustrator create it but stack three or 4 copies of the object on top of each other.

I have to delete the individual shapes one by one.

It would be handy to have a script that find these shapes overlapping each others.

Ideally, the script would copy the selected objects to a new layer and do the clean up of useless hidden overlapping shapes.

Thanks for your concern,

JP

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

As soon as I can.


I'll PM you my email address

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J
J4e8a16nAuthor
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July 7, 2011

CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
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July 14, 2011

Hi JP, I just posted a script in the Illustrator forum, hope it works on your project

you can get it here

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3798137#3798137

J
J4e8a16nAuthor
Known Participant
July 14, 2011

HI,

I tried it.

Usefull for cleaning stacking paths or compound paths wich thing I was doing

manually by selecting the similars shapes and merging them with the

pathfinder. I had few files stored in the dinausaurs folder expecting, one

day, a solution would sprang out.

I could not released the compound paths ( wich where only made of one

singular path). I moved some manually to another layer, your script worked;

I released manually the compound paths to get only shapes (paths), your

script worked.

It did not worked with the 'thing from photoshop'.

I found that if I expanded the 'thing' coming from photoshop, the compound

paths(undreds) where grouped in one big compound path. If I would release

this big compound path, I could retrieved all the warped paths , without

their copies! Ouf!

The saga continue.

JP

CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
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July 6, 2011

before we resort to deleting the extra copies, can you describe what your doing to get all those copies?

J
J4e8a16nAuthor
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July 6, 2011
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Muppet Mark
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July 6, 2011

There should be no 'extra' copies of anything… your script must be creating these?

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