Grids or lines over Mesh or Blends won't Print

[mindeye]

Hello,

I don't know what to do. Can't seem to draw over a Mesh or a blend and have that print out. What is is that I need to do? I have tried expanding, flatten transparency...Don't know what I am doing. I need to get that part of the drawing to print. Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Roger

 

[Triska]

Can you post the .AI to a site and respond with a link?
Sef.

It is alright to decorate construction, but never construct decoration. - Pugin, on Arch.

http://www.elucidesign.com

 

[mindeye]

Hello

Here ya go....

http://www.theserialbox.com/resume/lockerfinal.ai

If you could help me with this it would be a major leap forward.

Thanks,
Roger

 

[Triska]

Well, let's see...

When I ran the flatten transparency method under Object > I was seeing the floor grid drop out, and the wall grids drop out... I hope this was what you were refering to.

At any rate, a bit of organizing and cleanup seemed to help, at least with the 'dropping' grids.

[ol]
[li]I copied the wall 'Grid' objects onto another layer 'Wall Grid', as they were on an imported or linked image layer before, and normalized their stroke to 2 pts, using the Magic Wand set to .5pt to select out strokes of nearly the same width. Then I converted the strokes to outlines... that stopped them from dropping.[/li]
[li]I remade the Wall Gradients using actual gradients, as they had been converted to vectorized grads, only b/c they added to the complexity/filesize of the illustration.[/li]
[li]I also converted the Floor tile grid to outlines.../li]
[/ol]

You might simply go through and reorganize the objects on their layers a bit, till everything has a place, using Collect in New layer on similarly colored/themed objects, and go nuts converting strokes to outlines in those areas that drop on print.

I printed to a b/w HP 5000GN and didn't notice any missing data, you might look to your printer drivers as a possibility... also, depending on your output needs, rasterizing the whole buggin' thing will ALWAYS force a print... Although PhotoShop often does a better job of Rasterizing AI files than AI does. Naturally.

Sef.




It is alright to decorate construction, but never construct decoration. - Pugin, on Arch.

http://www.elucidesign.com

 

[Triska]

Oh, here's the new file:

http://www.elucidesign.com/TEK_examples/OthersWork/lockerfinal.ai

Sef.

It is alright to decorate construction, but never construct decoration. - Pugin, on Arch.

http://www.elucidesign.com