How to make multiple stripes with a logo in the middle?

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How to make multiple stripes with a logo in the middle? This is the logo:And these are the stripes that are in the form of the logo:   Sorry for my English

Doug A Roberts · Accepted Answer

This was quite painstaking, but didn't take especially long. First you need an inner stroke to your shape to create the two 'levels'. Use Offset Path with a negative value:

Draw your repeating lines however you like, then select the lot and use Pathfinder panel > Outline. This will slice your shapes into individual paths wherever they intersect. It'll also remove the strokes, so apply them again.

Then comes the tricky bit. Using the lasso tool, draw around just the inner shapes to leave just those selected. It's like the game with the hoop and the electric buzzer:

Once that's done, nudge or drag those parts upwards to create your embossing:

Then the painstaking part -- delete the lines of the original shapes. Since they're all now split into bits, this takes a while:

There's probable a shorter way, but it didn't quite come to me this morning.

Kurt Gold · Answer

Doug, you could speed up the painstaking part by using different stroke colours for the zig zag shapes (e.g. pure cyan) and then applying the same fill colour to all strokes with the same stroke colour.

After rereading my first paragraph, I realize that it may be incomprehensible. So in other words:

- Select all horizontal black stroked lines and apply a black fill to them. Don't remove the black stroke colour. Just apply the fill as an additional attribute.

- Select all cyan stroked zig zag shapes and apply a cyan fill to them. Don't remove the cyan stroke colour. Just apply the fill as an additional attribute.

- Select all and execute the Pathfinder Outline command.

Now you can see that the different stroke colours are still intact, so that – after some fiddling and recolouring – you can use one of the Select > Same commands to quickly select and remove the tiny bits that you don't need anymore.

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