Live Paint Bucket - faint lines

[rossmcd]

Hi folks

I've just created a graphic in Illustrator CS2 that utilises the Live Paint feature. Graphic uses several adjacent colours but no transparencies. Looks great in Illustrator but...

I need to use the graphic in Indesign CS2 but whenever I place it in Indesign then faint white lines appear on some, but not all, of the borders between sections of the Illustrator Live Paint effect have faint white lines.

Am I missing something?

Guidance most welcomed.
Ross

 

[apepp]

...does it look any different in 'high quality display' under view > display performance...

...and have you tried exporting this to a press ready pdf to see?

andrew

 

[rossmcd]

thanks andrew
yep, tried both of those without success.

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[apepp]

...not come across this problem yet, any chance of posting a screen shot of a sample page so we can see? If you can it will be good to see a shot of illustrator and also indesign...

andrew

 

[rossmcd]

not sure how to upload images onto tektips.
so uploaded images (sadly jpg, but same effect in press pdf) of both illustrator and indesign.

Illustrator

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g226/rossmcd/tektipIllustrator.jpg

Indesign

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g226/rossmcd/tektipIndesign.jpg

Draw attention to faint white lines that appear only on indesign image, esp on smaller rectangles.

Any ideas on the cause of this would be most welcomed.

Ross

 

[apepp]

hi ross...

...the only thing that springs to mind on this one is the possibility of a tiny white hairline stroke around these boxes in illustrator, barely visible until imported into indesign...

...i take you import to indesign as native ai...

...i have tried to replicate your image here in CS2, exported both ai and eps, all was ok, until i applied a stroke to my live paint boxes before activating the live epaint feature...

andrew

 

[rossmcd]

thanks for trying, andrew
i'm using cs2. yes, import was native ai file. no stroke on any object (checked this twice)
i've tried to replicate in new, simple ai file and same effect happened....fine in ai or eps file, but faint lines between some adjacent live paint areas of same colour.
don't understand.

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[jmgalvin]

I use CS so don't know live paint at all. You might try selecting all the objects and then go to object menu/flatten transparency, and pick the highest quality on the next window.

If an imported eps in indesign is showing the lines, you might try upping the flattening in the eps export window.

I had this same problem (except black lines) just about a year ago for a newspaper add. The lines kept showing up in the pdf. Unfortuantely, I can't remember how I got rid of them

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[rossmcd]

nice idea.

tried applying transparency flattening at highest poss setting, 1200dpi/400dpi. consequence was that illustrator graphic now shows the same faint lines as indesign.

given this, it seems plausible that indesign is auto-flattening the image when it is placed in indesign?

i know that my screen display and pdf output are both on high transparency settings.

aargh, thanks for the thought.
ross

 

[rossmcd]

Hi guys

I've managed to work out my illustrator problem. In case helpful to other forum users...solution was Pathfinder / Merge function.

My problem seem to be that overlapping graphic areas were somehow confusing the Live Paint function. So solution was separate workflow into two discrete steps:
- firstly, remove overlapping areas of graphics using Pathfinder / Merge function
- secondly, add line and apply Live Paint function

Thanks to apepp and jmgalvin on this forum for their thoughtful suggestions.

Ross

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