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I can't jpeg to edge of clipping mask anymore?

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May 8, 2024
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I cannot see why this has happened to me now, though for years I have been able to create a jpeg on a file using a clipping mask without the hidden excess outside of the mask being included in the jpeg. Now for some reason I am having large white bleed areas around the image wanted, which then need to be cropped out in photoshop and resaved to then go back and open into illustrator to add cut paths.

With using this function every day at work for in our sign business, and having years worth of files I often reuse and jpeg, this is now a very time consuming issue for me to have to go back and forth between illustrator and photoshop everytime.

I understand you can use the artboard to make as cropping edges, though all my hundreds of files are not set up to do this, even a lot of the time are not on the artboard. It worked before for years for me, so am I unsure what I have done, or what has changed for this to now be a problem.

I appreciate any help on this please.

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Correct answer Bobby Henderson

The clipping mask behavior you describe with exported JPEG images from Illustrator has been common for some time. The Export Selection command (in the right-click fly out menu) is an option; it brings up the Export for Screens dialog box. That will export JPEG images with the areas outside the clipping mask discarded.

I'm not sure I follow why you are exporting artwork from Illustrator in JPEG format only to bring the JPEG file back into Illustrator to add cut paths. Why not just keep the artwork in vector format, apply the cut paths and then export the file in PDF format?

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Bobby Henderson

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The clipping mask behavior you describe with exported JPEG images from Illustrator has been common for some time. The Export Selection command (in the right-click fly out menu) is an option; it brings up the Export for Screens dialog box. That will export JPEG images with the areas outside the clipping mask discarded.

I'm not sure I follow why you are exporting artwork from Illustrator in JPEG format only to bring the JPEG file back into Illustrator to add cut paths. Why not just keep the artwork in vector format, apply the cut paths and then export the file in PDF format?

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Thanks I will give this a go asap. Its only just started happening with me a few days a go, and I have auto updates on for my Creative Cloud.

As for why I do this, is that our Roland Printers ripping program VersaWorks loses recognition of the cutting path when there is blurs, gradients from memory etc, so I have to jpeg the file and paste the cutting path ontop and resave. This is an issue in itself, but with adding haing to now crop and resave into this, it just means half my day now is not actually being productive...

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Bobby Henderson

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Ah, VersaWorks. That explains it. Back in the mid or late 2000's when our sign shop first ventured into large format printing we bought a Roland VersaCAMM VP540 printer, which included VersaWorks. I keenly remember the application being very limited on what kinds of artwork would allow cut paths to be enabled and other kinds where cut paths wouldn't show up at all. That led to round-tripping a lot of artwork thru Photoshop, placing TIFF images into Illustrator, floating cut paths above them and then saving the results as EPS files to then load into VersaWorks. I hated it.

I guess Roland hasn't done anything to improve that situation?

Around 10 or so years ago we added a HP Latex360 printer with Onyx Thrive. That solved all the cut path availability problems that would come up in VersaWorks. The prints would come out of the HP printer, get laminted and then fed into a Graphtec vinyl cutter for the cut operation. Thrive and the 3 printers we have running off of it aren't without their headaches. This morning I had to deal with a stubborn Thrive crash issue; the application window would disappear within 20 seconds of launching RIP Queue. The culprit turned out to be a corrupt art file someone loaded into the queue from a failing USB memory stick.

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kevin28559867r6n0

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Just got the 28.5 version and that problem came back.
Thought that was solved sinse I have been using it as you explained.
File>Export>Export As... and without using the "Use Artboards" option, it use to export just to the edge of the masked items.
Now we are back to the old days, when doing this... the inside objects on the mask wont show, but the white space dose....

Kurt Gold

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There is a workaround to overcome this misbehaviour in Illustrator 28.5.

1. Select the clipping group and convert it to a static symbol in the Symbols palette.

2. File > Export > Export as ... (.jpg)

The exported .jpg file should now be cropped according to the clipping path boundaries.

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