Issue Overprint and layers

Question

Hey all,I have an issue with a file.Its layered into Artwork white and the Keylines.At some point a outlined letter in the Artwork droped to the white layer changes the colour to the white.I was not able to grab it only in the outline modus of illustrator.it was not detectable as it was in the white colour.Yet it somehow still managed to keep the knock out the on the artwork. Which in this location doesn’t make sense. Never seen anything like it. Can I rule out human error? No, but….. This would actually require a good bid of work to copy the element out, re-colour it to white and lock it in.That would not be an easy job that is done accidentally. The only thing that would make more sense is, that there was a glitch when writing the final pdf that would have caused the code to not output correctly.Has anyone any idea what could have caused this?

Jacob Bugge · Answer

campanero,

I wonder whether you have set the white for the Layer, overriding any other actual colour(s).

If you know the colour of the dropped letter, you can select something with that colour and then Select>SameFill Color (or Stroke Color).

Otherwise, working on a copy, the letter may appear if you remove the white from the Layer.

Or maybe you can recognise the letter (shape) in the Layers palette

Or there could be other ways.

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