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1. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
[scott] May 6, 2013 1:23 PM (in response to deborahAceSEO).
Doesn't do that here.
What version of AI?
What's the Appearance stack for the object?There are some weird things which happen on complex appearances.
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2. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
deborahAceSEO May 6, 2013 1:30 PM (in response to [scott])Thanks sooooooooooooo much for helping me.
I'm using CS6. The Appearance only has the Fill applied with the gradient.
I even tried not using the Appearance Panel and just setting the fill with the Swatches Panel but I still have the same problem.
Also, I reset my settings using CRTL+ALT+Shift when starting AI to clear the preferences. But nothing seems to be working.
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3. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
[scott] May 6, 2013 1:44 PM (in response to deborahAceSEO)which part is the gradient speicfically applied to? The text or inner shapes or the outer shape? With edges hidden, it's impossible to tell which piece is actually selected in your screenshots.
Can you link to a sample file?
Everything I'm trying here doesn't show your issue.
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4. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
deborahAceSEO May 6, 2013 1:52 PM (in response to [scott]) -
5. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
[scott] May 6, 2013 2:04 PM (in response to deborahAceSEO)Okay, I'm going to say it's a bug. Or at the very least unexpected behavior.
The specific causing factor is the text on a path.
It doesn't appear to matter if the text on a path in inside a group or not. If there is text on a path the annotator loses it's position when not at 0°.
If you outline the text the issue goes away.
So.. yeah.. bug.. nothing you can do about it if you want live text on a path.
The truly odd part is how the annotator will snap back to the incorrect position if you try and move it.
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6. Re: Can someone explain why the Gradient Tool is doing this?
deborahAceSEO May 6, 2013 2:49 PM (in response to [scott])Okay, thanks for the help. At least I know I'm not crazy. I didn't want to create outlines because I wanted the text to be editable. Oh well.









