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Illustrators Corner - Microstock Illustrators Forum => Illustration - General => Topic started by: oguzaral on February 26, 2019, 04:32
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Hey there,
Illustrator 2019 has a neat feature called free gradient. However, when I use it and convert to eps 10 for shutterstock, it becomes raster. Solution for this...?
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Hi there, yes : AI9, since 2000 ;)
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there is no solution.. it will become raster.
one way is to trace it.
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I tried this as soon as I updated and was so disappointed to see that it expanded to a mess of clipping paths and a bitmap "Non-Native Art" swatch. If it could only expand to gradient mesh that would be perfect!
If you have a bunch of art where you've already used this and need to convert objects you might check out http://www.meshtormentor.com/ (http://www.meshtormentor.com/) though fair warning: this plugin has been around forever and I haven't used it in years. I know it worked fine for me about 3 versions back though. Probably best to just pretend the new gradient type doesn't exist for stock vectors though :(
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You could still use that "new" technique but you'll probably have to sell the image as a JPG but the original will probably have to be reconfigured to accommodate a stock site's rules that's all. :)
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Personally I am tired of this software pretending to do every thing.
Years ago Illustrator was a vectorial software producing vectorial files, and Photoshop was a bitmap software producing bitmap files…
Today they want that Illustrator produces vector+bitmap+web+sound+movie+etc…
The same for Photoshop…
And of course they do al that bad…
>:( :o