The artwork should still look exactly the same as the original, but in Outlines view it looks nice and tidy This will clean up the shapes so that there is no overlap. If we view the outlines of our artwork now, it looks very messy, but we'll clean that up in the next step.Ĭlick the Merge button on the Pathfinder pane. and Object → Expand as many times as necessary until you have only shapes with fills (no strokes) and no text objects. Once we expand the text, we can't edit it again (without re-creating it). Either save the original in a different file, or duplicate the artwork and store it in a locked and hidden layer. It won't affect the appearance, but it will certainly lessen the editability. This process will make irreparable changes to your artwork. The Long Way Step 1: BACK UP YOUR ORIGINAL ARTWORK! Let's start with a simple text object that has a fill and a stroke on top of a rectangle: You're trying to do it the more complicated way, so I'll walk you through how I'd do that first. There are a couple of ways to do color separations for screen preparation in Illustrator. Nothing underneath my boxes or text was knocked out.Ĭan you flatten both art and text in Illustrator? If so, how?Ĭan you output (print) each layer separately, or must you create a new file for each? I saw no provision for printing individual layers in the Print Dialog box. In other words, all objects (and text) were still on different layers, even though I thought I'd flattened the artwork.
When I did the next color, which also happens to be the rectangle fill color, the text was now beneath the box.
Then created a new Layer, and slid the black on up. I used the layer command Flatten Artwork, then selected a black object then Select -> Same -> Fill Color. Print each layer black and, voilá, color seps. So my idea is (was) to flatten all layers, select each color, and move them to their own newly created layers, one color each layer. It's a simple design and we have three spot colors, black, red, and yellow. I made a design which is composed of an expanded Live Trace, a couple of rectangles with fills and strokes, and some text within said rectangles/boxes. Ok, I'm an Illustrator noob, but I've worked in screen printing.
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