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Alex5EE8
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August 25, 2020
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Pattern brush unwanted spacing

  • August 25, 2020
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Hi everyone. 

I have been trying to create a seamless pattern brush but regardless of what I do, Illustrator introduces this unwanted spacing between the repeating sequence and I have no idea what I can do to get rid of it or why it appeared.


I triple checked and made sure there were no stray points going outside the bounding box of the tile, I recreated the pattern a few times, but no luck, I keep getting the same issue. I even disabled the GPU pefromance option thinking that might be it, but surprise surprise - same issue 😐

 

Here is the AI file in case you want to take a look. 

 

Thank you all in advance. 

 

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Kurt Gold
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Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
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August 25, 2020

In my experience it is not a "physical" gap, at least not one that appears when printing the things.

 

You are however right that there is an issue when copying and pasting into Photoshop. I am not quite sure what source (information) is being used and transfered during that process.

 

Nonetheless, the gaps at your pattern brush that are visible on screen will not appear when printed, if you ask me.

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Alex5EE8Author
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August 25, 2020

Thank you Kurt. Looks like there's nothing I can do to fix this, I was really hoping I could eliminate the gap someway. 

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Alex5EE8Author
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August 25, 2020

Upate - I have copied the stroke from illustrator to Photoshop and the gap between the pattern brush elements is there, meaning it's not just a antialiasing issue, it's an actual physical gap. Any idea how to eliminate it? 

Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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August 25, 2020

In Illustrator you could try a Rasterize Effect with a high resolution and Art Optimized anti-aliasing.

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Alex5EE8Author
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August 26, 2020

4K does not mean high resolution. A 4K  display of 31,5 inches wide has a resolution of around 140/150 ppi, still low resolution compared to professional printing devices.


Thank you for clarifying. 

Kurt Gold
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Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
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August 25, 2020

I don't think that there will be troubles.

 

Turn on CPU preview and disable the Anti-aliased Artwork option in the general application preferences. If you then do not see any gaps, everything should be fine.

Larry G. Schneider
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Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
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August 25, 2020

Have you tried printing the pattern? What I see is likely an anti-aliasing screen problem.

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    Alex5EE8Author
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    August 25, 2020

    Hi Larry, 

    I didn't try printing it, but I will give it a try, thank you for the reccomandation. My main concern is that when I enlarge the brush size to 10 for exaple, the gap widens, which makes me believe it isn't an anti-aliasing issue. 

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    Alex5EE8Author
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    August 25, 2020

    Hi again. I printed and wasn't able to see the lines. I am a bit concerned though that the lines will be visible on the actual professional printing. 

    Any idea how to fix this AA issue (if that's actually the issue)?

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