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1. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
Jacob Bugge Apr 5, 2014 2:54 AM (in response to clazface)clazface,
To avoid a stroke cutting into a fil, you can move it down beneath it in the Appearance palette.
But in this case, you may:
1) Select the fish and create a copy behind it (Ctrl/Cmd+C+B);
2) Object>Path>Offset Path with a value identical to the desired gap, and change the colour to white so you can see what you are doing;
3) Also select the background object and in the Transparency paletrte flyout click Make Opacity Mask with Clip unticked and Invert Mask ticked.
This should hide that area of the behind the fish so you can see through the background object.
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2. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
clazface Apr 5, 2014 3:44 AM (in response to Jacob Bugge) -
3. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
clazface Apr 5, 2014 3:51 AM (in response to clazface)I think I did it by doing
> Object>Path>Offset Path
> Clicking the warped rectangle and Object > Expand appareance
> Selecting the offset path and the new curved rectangle
> Pathfinder > Minus Front
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4. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
Jacob Bugge Apr 5, 2014 4:05 AM (in response to clazface)clazface,
My suggestion was to have (you can just have all the objects on the same layer), from the top:
1) Original fish,
2) Copy fish offset so it is larger and with white fill,
3) Banner.
Then select 2) and 3) and in the Transparency palette flyout click Make Opacity Mask with Clip unticked and Invert Mask ticked.
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5. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
clazface Apr 5, 2014 4:08 AM (in response to Jacob Bugge)Oh cool will try that, sorry for not understanding at first!
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6. Re: How do I stop two shapes touching when they overlap?
Jacob Bugge Apr 5, 2014 4:19 AM (in response to clazface)clazface,
I am continually working on my presenting the right combination of (un)intelligibleness and woolliness.
Depending on the nature of the artwork, you may also be able to do it the other way, and you may not need to Object>Expand Appearance.
Two sometimes crucial differences between the two ways are that:
- The Opacity Mask works with any kind of objects;
- With the Opacity Mask way you can freely redo everything and reapply the mask; with the other way, you will have to recreate the banner if you change the fish (unless you have kept a copy of the original).





