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October 3, 2024
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problem exporting full artboards

  • October 3, 2024
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I am trying to export my artboards as PNG's so I can put them in a video editing program to play music behind it. But the problem I'm facing is just exporting said artboards. A few of them are fine- but most of them are not showing the actual designs, just exported as "blank"-I have white,black, or color- backgrounds Or it has half the design but not the full design. I've tried "Export As...", "Export for screens (this one I can actually see preview's and everything looks fine in the preview but still the same issue), my app is up to date, I've made sure all the overprint buttons I can find in settings and attributes is checked off. in the overprint preview It looks similar to the mix up pngs I do get but again... I've changed all of those settings. I've tried on Mac and Windows. 

Anyhelp? -please don't give me a tutorial of exporting- I've attached a couple of files. The only way I was able to get something to work was saving it as an svg but I can't use the svg for the purpose I want. 

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Ton Frederiks
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October 3, 2024

Thanks, you have Overprint applied to the disappearing objects.

 

Select All, check/uncheck the Overprint checkboxes untill they are empty.

Participant
October 3, 2024

JHC.... yeah... that was it. Thank you. I could have sworn I got all the attributes/overprint checks I could find.... I'm very new to illustrator and really appreciate the help! 

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Ton Frederiks
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October 3, 2024

Good to hear that helped, Tris.

Ton Frederiks
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October 3, 2024

Can you share a problem artboard as .ai?

You can attach them to a post as PDF (or when you rename the .ai to.pdf)

Participant
October 3, 2024

I don't have any problem artboards it's just as exports. I don't have a ton of layers just some clipping masks and grouping but all the objects are filled with color not transparent. I have saved some as pdf.s but I can't open them with premier pro or another video editing app. 

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October 3, 2024

there is the pdf of my whole project. everything looks like it should- again. It's just as I'm trying to export that it doesn't work. 

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Monika Gause
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October 3, 2024

WHen you open the PNGs in Photoshop - do they show what they should show?

 

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October 3, 2024

No

 

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