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Inspiring
June 17, 2021
Question

Pathfinder Crop "artifact"

  • June 17, 2021
  • 4 replies
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I have several rectangular shaped bands that I want cropped by a perfect circle. Yet it is not cropping exactly.

Easier to explain by the screen shots:

1. White circle, behind blue gradient circle with, white band on top

2. White bands with a circle of exact same size and position on top

3. After Pathfinder Crop

4. Unhide #1

5. "Artifact" up close

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4 replies

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2021

What does the outline view show?

 

LambdaEntAuthor
Inspiring
June 17, 2021

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2021

Is there anything that prevents you from uniting the horizontal lines and the ring? If not, I would just do that.

Jacob Bugge
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2021

Ent,

 

Probably far too far out, but what happens if you change the (Pathfinder Options) Precision to a very low value?

 

LambdaEntAuthor
Inspiring
June 17, 2021

I set it to the lowest: 0.001

No change

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2021

I think it is caused by anti-aliasing. 

If you turn Anti-aliased  Artwork off in the Preferences and view it using CPU Preview it will probably go away.

LambdaEntAuthor
Inspiring
June 17, 2021

No, it's not just the display. It shows up in exported JPG or PNG. But thanks for replying.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2021

And if you check Art Optimized (instead of the default Type Optimized) for anti-aliasing during export, is it still visible?

LambdaEntAuthor
Inspiring
June 17, 2021

Screen shots didn't line up very well lets try again:

1. White circle, behind blue gradient circle with, white band on top

2. White bands with a circle of exact same size and position on top

3. After Pathfinder Crop

4. Unhide #1

5. "Artifact" up close