
This will give you control of the line as an object, not just a line with thickness applied. Outline the lines, perform this in illustrator File menu/object/path/outline stroke.Delete the fill from your lines, so you can see the hollow objects below.I think the OP wants the logo to be transparent through the layers - save a copy of your finished design, because what you are about to do is irreversible. If you also have any white strokes, repeat steps 3 and 4 for the strokes. From the Appearance panel, open the Transparency panel for the white fill (by expanding the "Fill" entry and clicking "Opacity") and set opacity to "0".Select everything with a white fill using the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow - A).Open the Transparency panel for the group and check "Knockout Group" (you may need to click the box twice-so that it has a check mark not a line). Group the logo (You could also put it on it's own layer and use the layer). Take this vaguely similar construct for example: Whether you need to do this destructively or not depends on your needs, if you're outputting to a raster format or importing this somewhere where you don't need the path data then this may be a better (easier & more maintanable) option. In the end, for most non-complex art, both methods get you to the same place.Īssuming you do want to "flatten" your vectors then do as Scott says, you can however get the same result non-destructively using a knockout group. It kind of depends upon exactly how things are constructed (I didn't look at the tutorial). The first option generally will let you have slightly more control at times. Choose Object > Flatten Transparency from the menu and move the slider all the way to "vector".Selects everything with that same color anywhere in the artwork.Click to select the color you want removed.and make the different areas of color butt up against each other rather than overlap each other. Combines areas of the same color if they touch and removes any unseen underlying objects (it basically flattens the layers of fills and strokes to just one layer of fills.) It will remove the white areas under the black areas, etc.(this won't work well if you have gradients or gradient mesh objects - that's another matter entirely) And outlines any live type/envelopes, etc. Use the Direct Select tool (white arrow) and click something white.Ĭhoose Select > Same > Fill & Stroke from the menu.Įxpands all appearance items so they are objects and no longer dynamicĮxpands all strokes so they are shapes (fills) not strokes. Object > Expand (click fills and strokes and objects and then click ok)Ĭlick the Merge button on the Pathfinder Panel (note. Rows will be separated by paragraph marks.Object > Expand Appearance (if available) In the Convert to Text box, under Separate text with, click the separator character you want to use in place of the column boundaries. On the Layout tab, in the Data section, click Convert to Text. Select the rows or table you want to convert to text.

The text converted to a table should look something like this: Under Separate text at, choose the separator character you used in the text.Ĭlick OK. Resize the table automatically in case the width of the available space changes (for example, web layout or landscape orientation)

Resize the columns to fit the width of the text in each column In the Fixed column width box, type or select a value. If you want a different column width, choose one of these options: Word automatically chooses a width for the table columns. Under AutoFit behavior, choose how you want your table to look. Under Table size, make sure the numbers match the numbers of columns and rows you want. In the Convert Text to Table box, choose the options you want. Select the text that you want to convert, and then click Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table. In this example, the tabs and paragraph marks will produce a table with 3 columns and 2 rows: Use paragraph marks to indicate where you want to begin a new table row. Note: If you have commas in your text, use tabs for your separator characters.
