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How to invert text color with respect to background in Illustrator?

Set the Blend Mode of your text items to Difference in the Transparency palette. Change the text color to white. You'll probably notice the white doesn't change to black in the "white" space. That's b …
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Search for string and delete entire text frame with JavaScript for Illustrator

This will do it so long as there is a consistent piece of text to search for. Can be applied to an action and batched. Notice that it loops in reverse order. This is a common strategy whenever loopin …
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Adobe Illustrator: A transparent background for an character of a file pdf

That does not appear to be a character, as selected text will show a baseline in Illustrator. It looks like it might be a raster image (or perhaps a tracing) given the lack of paths in the selection, …
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Keep Illustrator Path Divide Below from Closing Lines

You could stroke the open lines, outline the strokes to create thin closed paths, and then do the divide and delete the outside pieces of the lines/paths. A more freeform method would be to use the E …
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How do you add color to objects that don't close on illustrator

Even open paths can be filled in Illustrator using the normal method. However, you may not like the result when Ai treats the path as if the endpoints are connected with a straight line. The best way …
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Illustrator export to Photoshop is changing object scale

Illustrator always uses 72 ppi when showing pixel/point measurements. It's a vector app, so only raster items within it include a ppi. Otherwise, we just export vector art at the intended resolution o …
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(Illustrator) How to edit text that is transformed into shape of arc?

Have you tried removing the effect(s) from the text frame's Appearance palette? It actually looks like there may be overlapping/interfering effects. The aim here would be to return the text to a norma …
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Text/Font Single Path Illustrator

Generally unless an engraving font fits the situation, the best way to do this is still to draw the bezier curve with the Pen Tool. A method that might help is to offset the path of your outlined tex …
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Approximating path with shapes?

It's possible to write a basic jsx to draw the triangles at each selected item. The function below will resize the drawn triangles to match both height and width of each selection. If you want triangl …
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Cannot see my A4 size artboard in Illustrator

If you've tried Ctrl+0 and it still doesn't show up, try menu item View > Show Artboards (Shift+Ctrl+H). If it says Hide Artboards, you know this is not the issue. I recommend changing this hotkey to …
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Can't paste objects

Illustrator has a drawing area on which the artboards live. You can view it by zooming all the way out. Page items are not allowed to extend outside of the drawing area. So your problem likely stems f …
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Illustrator: how to get this halftone effect?

I got the closest look with two layers: 1. Duplicate artwork set to Color Dodge in the Transparency palette. 2. Artwork with Effect>Pixelate>Pointilize applied.
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Illustrator CC 2018: How to create the gradient of the beam?

Also note that the gradient in your source image will look different in CMYK than in RGB. If you intend to print the design, this won't matter. But deep indigo & fuchsia tones are more drab in CMYK. S …
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