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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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The export for screens behavior of automatically creating folders to hold exported art files is (I think) something more friendly for web development. It helps keep the assets more organized in that regard.

Roland's printers are pretty good, but they really need to step up their game with VersaWorks. I can't tell from just quickly searching online, but it doesn't look like VersaWorks has an Adobe certified PDF print engine and the various benefits that come with it. Several other rival large format RIP applications fully support Adobe's PDF standards (Onyx, RasterLink Pro, Caldera, etc).

Some of my co-workers hated our old VP-540 thermal inkjet printer because of all the extra time that was needed to handle prints. They had to be allowed to out-gas for so and such many hours before being laminated. That's not an issue with latex-based prints or even prints coming out of our UV flatbed printer. My big problem with our Roland setup was having to work around issues with VersaWorks. But more of my job is spent in front of a computer doing design work than laminating and applying printed graphics.

We aren't terribly rushed at work for the printing, as we predominently do race car wraps. The latex prints are not as good for install, plus now with the multiple inks we use with greens and oranges we print in RGB format and get awesome colour vibrancy now which our racing clients love to stand out on track.

The issues I have is we do a heck of a lot of go kart kits, and the side pods need to be saved seperately from the rest of the kit to suit the thick laminate needed for just them. Because they normally have a lot of outer glows, drop shadows, gradients etc it means having to jpeg and reopen for the conotur colour path which I have go used to doing. Now its annoying because I can't do this quickly like I could just last week, so I dont know why its changed on me. At least these work arounds aren't as time consuming as it was appearing it was going to be with having continously cropping each file, but ultimately I wish I could go back to last week still...

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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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