Pathfinder and Texturing Help Help!

[Picklesthedoodler]

Hi all,

I have a simple rectangle in which I did an arc to, so it's basically a banner flag.

I think made a font, created font as outlines, lined it up on my banner with the same arc, looks great.

I then used pathfinder minus, so it would stamp out the letters, and thats doing exactly what I want it to.

My issue now:

I used a texture I converted to image trace, simple distressed texture. I overlayed that on top of the above and tried to use Pathfinder minus.

But it's taking wierd pieces of the letters and throwing it all over the place. Is this because I am doing path finder twice on the same object?

I can't find a work around....  Any help appreciated

[Picklesthedoodler]

I also tried making it a compound path at different points, but that didnt seem to work.

[tromboniator]

Can you show screen shots of the process? Did you expand the image trace? I can't imagine why anything would get thrown around.

[Picklesthedoodler]

I actually just figured this out. I either got lucky or it was this:

I had multiple copies of my texture. They were all expanded, but maybe one of the copies I had snagged from my workspace either wasnt expanded OR it wasnt a compound path. I think it wasnt a compound.

Thanks!

[tromboniator]

You're welcome. I'm glad you figured it out.

Peter