Gradient does not get saved

[yoga_vidya]

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!

[Kurt Gold]

Can you share this sample .ai file?

Also, which version of Illustrator are you using?

[yoga_vidya]

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

[jdanek]

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. 

[tromboniator · Accepted solution]

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

[yoga_vidya]

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! 🙂

[tromboniator]

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

Peter