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phil1144
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October 17, 2017
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Converting blue lines to black so I can print

  • October 17, 2017
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Hello,

I image traced a complex shape and edited to the dimensions I needed and the outline of my shape is blue, thus not showing in print preview, hindering me from printing. How do I convert the blue lines to black? My stroke is black so I'm having a hard time trying to figure this one out. Anyway I can apply black to the lines I have already made? Thank You. Still learning.

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

After downloading the file to view, a blank grid will appear. Click in the middle of the grid for the shape with blue lines to show. Thank you all for your help with this. I really appreciate it.

Phil


You have set the opacity to 0% in 2 places.

Open the Appearance panel.

Select the object (it is a Group) and change the Group opacity to 100%

Open the Layers Panel and scroll down until you see Group > Compound Path

Select the Compound Path and change the Opacity to 100%.

I am not sure why you need the Rasterize and Transform effects.

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Ray Yorkshire
Ray Yorkshire
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October 17, 2017

If you could share the Ai file here, for example via Dropbox link or similar, maybe someone can spot the cause.

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    phil1144Author
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    October 18, 2017

    Ray- Thank you for the great idea. The link to the file is below.

    Dropbox - bag template near complete.ai

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    phil1144Author
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    October 18, 2017

    After downloading the file to view, a blank grid will appear. Click in the middle of the grid for the shape with blue lines to show. Thank you all for your help with this. I really appreciate it.

    Phil

    Ray Yorkshire
    Ray Yorkshire
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    October 17, 2017

    is the opacity set to 100%?

    shows  the top of the screen

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    phil1144Author
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    October 17, 2017

    it was but slid it to 0% and nothing changed

    JonathanArias
    JonathanArias
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    October 17, 2017

    If you go to the top menu, chose select, and go down the menu to same, the sub options will allow you to take a selected object and have illustrator select for you all others that match a fill a stroke and so on. with this option you can select all of your blue fill shapes at one time, and change them to black.

    hope this helps

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    phil1144Author
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    October 17, 2017

    Thank you for your response, I tried and re tried your advice. The outline of the shape seemed to darken up a bit, but it didn't take and hold to the outline. With the select all cursor, when I select within the shape, all the outlines of the shape and boxes in the corners appear. When I select outside of the shape in the blank space, the shape disappears, but once clicking within the borders of the shape it reappears. How do I lock it down and make the outline black? I hope this new information helps in the solution to the issue. Thank You.

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    October 17, 2017

    What is this? A group?

    You need to check the layers panel.

    And then also: a blue line should print as well. So maybe there are other reasons. we need to know everything. Dimensions and if you scale when printing? stroke thickness etc.

    You will need to learn what you don't know.

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