Gaussian Blue paste to new document 1

[purrlions]

Hi,

Does anyone have a similar experience or help for the following?

I have an existing AI document CS2. There is a circle in the document filled with blue. It has a gaussian Blur filter on it (on the attributes tab) with a radius of 5 pixels.

I try to copy this circle, and paste it in to a new document. However, in the new document, the circle looks like it has a MUCH bigger radius of pixels blurred. I look in the attributes tab on the new document and it still says the Gaussian blur is 5 pixels.

I could "fix" it now, using the following coverups:
1. Change the blur to the desired pixels to match the other document and be done with it. However, when i do that it still looks different than the original document, almost pixelated.

2. Another quick fix would be to rasterize the darn thing with a transparent background and paste to a new document, but although that would solve my problem today, it wouldnt answer my question.

3. recreate the circle in the new document.

So i am wondering if anyone has seen this before and could help with my problem? When I CREATE a circle with a blur from scratch and paste it onto a new document, it works fine. But for some reason the source file i need to use from the customer won't paste with the attribute.

Also when i paste the circle in the new document and clear all attributes, then try to apply the gaussian blur, gaussian blur is greyed out.

Thanks for any help.

Purrlions

 

[RegistrationMark]

in the new document, go to the Effect Menu, and choose Document Raster Effects Settings... set it to high resolution. That will change the look of the blur, to match the original.
Use the appearance palette not the attributes palette to remove effects.
Hope it helps
Mark

 

[purrlions]

Mark-

Your suggestion worked perfectly and we did not have to recreate any art. This is the best fix for our problem. Thank you for the valuable post!

~purrlions

 

[RegistrationMark]

Good. I'm glad it worked for you.
Mark