Participating Frequently

Answered

Illustrator Surface Pattern Design (issue)

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 10, 2020
3 replies
1380 views

Hello,

Ever since I updated illustrator I am having an issue creating surface pattern prints. I have been creating them in the standard way (which worked for me no problem until I updated)

When I add my swatch to the swatchs panel, for a repeat pattern it is inclusing the white space around the design. I'm geting a big white box included. I feel it might be on setting in my preferences that I need to change, but can't figure out which one.

It is driving me mad and I badly need help !

Thank you.

Sinead.

This topic has been closed for replies.

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Ton and Monic, my god it works ! So strange a million thank you's for your help.

I understand, that this might be a corrupted document, but why is this happening with some prints I create and not with others? Is there any thing I can do to avoid this in the future?

Or is it best to check the appearance panel each time?

Why this happens is a mystery to me, but the red rectangle had the same mystery appearance as the empty one in the back.

When things go wrong, you can check the Appearance panel and fix it

Ton Frederiks

Braniac

Can you show a screendump of your problem?

What happens if you create the pattern with the pattern maker?

Object > Pattern > Make

S

Sinead Claxton_32.Author

Participating Frequently

Hello,

The same thing happens in pattern maker. I just made a quick example see screen shot.

Monika Gause

Braniac

Is the inviible rectangle in the background? Please show the contents of the layers panel.

Monika Gause

Braniac

Draw a rectangle that marks the size of the repeat. Apply fill and stroke of "None" Put it in the background. Select the pattern and the rectangle and move into the swatches panel.

S

Sinead Claxton_32.Author

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately this doesn't work. I have been creating patterns for many years and never had this issue.

Its very hard to explain, it is creating a gap between the pattern and background pattern bounding box.

Sinead.

Monika Gause

Braniac

In that case you might want to show us what exactly you did.

Just Shoot Me

Braniac

I moved your post over from the poorly named "Using the Community" forum, which is for getting help using this forum system, to a better forum,

I hope this helps. Best of luck to you.

S

Sinead Claxton_32.Author

Participating Frequently

Thank you

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded