Hi
I have a problem--im fairly new to illustrator and recently made an illustration which i want to incorporate with a flash website--the problem im having though is that i cant seem to get rid of the illustration outside of the artboard--i used the transform effect to create a circular pattern which i filled with an art brush stroke--in order to have the pattern fill the artboard, being its circular, i had to extend its size--the object im transforming is merely a small triangle which i rotated and made 30 copies of and illustrator keeps it as such--ive tried exporting to photoshop which immediately rasterized the pattern(of course i could then easily crop it)and to flash which turned it into a mess of individual blocks-which i could theoretically delete-however it would take forever and the file size is quite large--i tried importing it to freehand--nothing seems to work--why doesnt illustrator automatically get rid of everything outside of the artboard or at least have a decent cropping tool? please i think there must be a simple answer and i want to keep everything as vectors
thanks
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I have a problem--im fairly new to illustrator and recently made an illustration which i want to incorporate with a flash website--the problem im having though is that i cant seem to get rid of the illustration outside of the artboard--i used the transform effect to create a circular pattern which i filled with an art brush stroke--in order to have the pattern fill the artboard, being its circular, i had to extend its size--the object im transforming is merely a small triangle which i rotated and made 30 copies of and illustrator keeps it as such--ive tried exporting to photoshop which immediately rasterized the pattern(of course i could then easily crop it)and to flash which turned it into a mess of individual blocks-which i could theoretically delete-however it would take forever and the file size is quite large--i tried importing it to freehand--nothing seems to work--why doesnt illustrator automatically get rid of everything outside of the artboard or at least have a decent cropping tool? please i think there must be a simple answer and i want to keep everything as vectors
thanks
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