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steve fairbairn
steve fairbairn
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Compound paths lose colour

Jan 18, 2013 6:20 AM

A strange thing happened just now that I don’t recall having seen before.

I have a number of simple objects, all the same fill colour, no stroke and none of them overlapping.

 

When I make them into a compound path they sometimes lose all their colour.

I have checked winding order, even/odd fill and that sort of thing but since none of the objects overlap, that shouldn’t make any difference anyway.

 

This doesn’t happen every time, so does anyone know what could be causing it?

419 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: steve fairbairn, Jan 19, 2013 2:21 PM
 
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  • Doug Katz
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    1. Doug Katz,
    Jan 18, 2013 9:06 AM   in reply to steve fairbairn
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    I get the same. And not always. Never have figured out why. CS5.

     
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  • Kurt Gold
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    2. Kurt Gold,
    Jan 18, 2013 9:53 AM   in reply to steve fairbairn
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    It happens – for example – when your selection unintentionally contains an unfilled path (possibly just a stray point) that is located at the bottom of the stacking order.

     
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  • Mike Gondek
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    3. Mike Gondek,
    Jan 18, 2013 10:03 AM   in reply to steve fairbairn
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    I got before and resolved by cleaning up the original selection. Cleared stray points and duplicate overlapping objects.

     

    In screenshot below I duplicated the cyan square and filled with none, did a compound path of 4 objects and lost the fill of cyan.

     

    Screen Shot 2013-01-18 at 11.50.38 AM.png

     

    Also if you ever open a file and get a missing plugin that could happen.

    Screen Shot 2013-01-18 at 11.54.50 AM.png

     
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  • steve fairbairn
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    4. steve fairbairn,
    Jan 19, 2013 2:04 AM   in reply to Kurt Gold
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    Possibly.

    But the Color panel showed a fill colour when I had everything selected.

    If any object in the selection were different I would get a question mark in the panel’s Fill area.

     
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  • Kurt Gold
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    5. Kurt Gold,
    Jan 19, 2013 1:28 PM   in reply to steve fairbairn
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    Another assumption: The opacity of the bottommost path (or stray point) could possibly be zero percent.

     

    To prevent speculation I'd recommend to provide a sample .ai file.

     
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  • steve fairbairn
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    6. steve fairbairn,
    Jan 19, 2013 2:21 PM   in reply to Kurt Gold
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    Defnitely not that. I wasn’t using transparency anywhere in the file.

    The file consists entirely of squares and circles and there were no stray points or anything else to confuse the issue.

    Picture 1.png

    I have corrected the Illie file, so there is nothing useful to send.

    I was just surprised to see the fill colour in the Color panel suddenly disappear when I hit Cmd+8.

     
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