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Gradient does not get saved

Community Beginner ,
Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

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Hi,

 

I just started with Adobe Illustrator.

 

I made a blue gradient on the hanging man which is marked in the picture. If I save the .AI file and open it again. The gradient is gone and the man will be black. If I save it as .PDF the gradient is visible.

 

Do you know what the problem is?

 

Thank you!

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Community Expert , Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

Select the hanging man. Open the Appearance panel. Click on the eye icon to disable the visibility of the drop shadow. Click again to re-enable it.

I can't explain why this works, but it seems to, at least on my machine.

 

Peter

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Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

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Can you share this sample .ai file?

 

Also, which version of Illustrator are you using?

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Hi Kurt, thanks for you help!

 

Here is the file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vamX_khJzGVH5L7pJrznd9aZBDcYNyY2/view?usp=sharing

 

I'm using version 24.2.2

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Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

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When you created the Gradient, did you drag the fill to your Gradient swatch palette?  That should happen automatically, but not sure.  I usually drag the color to the Gradient swatches.  Then, when you open the file, the swatch should still be there. 

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Select the hanging man. Open the Appearance panel. Click on the eye icon to disable the visibility of the drop shadow. Click again to re-enable it.

I can't explain why this works, but it seems to, at least on my machine.

 

Peter

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Community Beginner ,
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Thank you very much Peter! This works for me as well 🙂

 

@jdanek: When I created it I selected the man and via the menu "Window" I selected "Gradient" and then I made my changes, nothing else.

 

Unfortunately my version is in German, so it's not so easy for me to follow tutorials. I already tried to change it to English with a YouTube Tutorial but it didn't work out. Maybe I should try again.

 

Anyway, thank you very much guys and have a pleasant day! 🙂

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Excellent—I'm delighted, and you're welcome!

 

Peter

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