Any way to keep gradients when bringing pdfs from illy to
Cdraw?

I am trying to bring a file I made in illustrator into corel. In the file I 
have a circle that I put a circular gradient in and then smooshed the circle 
and gradient down to make an ellipse type shape. When I open it in corel, 
the circle stays smooched but the gradient goes back to being circular if 
that makes sense. Is there a way to make this work?
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"Dennis" <info@eastcoastprinters.com> wrote in message 
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> I am trying to bring a file I made in illustrator into corel. In the file 
> I have a circle that I put a circular gradient in and then smooshed the 
> circle and gradient down to make an ellipse type shape. When I open it in 
> corel, the circle stays smooched but the gradient goes back to being 
> circular if that makes sense. Is there a way to make this work?
> -- 
> East Coast Printers
> 34 Park Street #10
> Essex Jct., VT 05452
> (802) 878-8337
> www.eastcoastprinters.com
>
>
Dennis, even though Illy and Draw work together exceedingly well, gradients 
are one of those things that every vector program does differently. For 
example, using one from Freehand can be a true nightmare. I really  believe 
this is one of those things best kept in the program that created it. For 
example, if you follow the same steps of "smooshing" your
gradient-filled 
circle in Illy and Draw, chances are the gradients in each will look 
noticeably different. Or, if acceptable, you could rasterize the object in 
Illustrator.

Just my 2 cents. Others may have other ideas.

Thane 

If you save as an EPS in Illy, your gradient will break up into separate 
objects. This makes for a larger file in Corel but it will retain the 
same look.

Caveat... your gradient fill will not be editable in Corel since it is 
now a series of objects.

Steve
www.brutefish.com


Dennis wrote:
> I am trying to bring a file I made in illustrator into corel. In the file I

> have a circle that I put a circular gradient in and then smooshed the
circle 
> and gradient down to make an ellipse type shape. When I open it in corel, 
> the circle stays smooched but the gradient goes back to being circular if 
> that makes sense. Is there a way to make this work?

As already suggested, there is no way to distort a gradient in draw, that I 
know of. Your two options are to rasterize the gradient in Illy and import 
that, or expand it's appearance in Illy and import that. Both have pros and 
cons, the most obvious one being that the gradient is no longer editable in 
draw.

LD

"Dennis" <info@eastcoastprinters.com> wrote in message 
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> I am trying to bring a file I made in illustrator into corel. In the file 
> I have a circle that I put a circular gradient in and then smooshed the 
> circle and gradient down to make an ellipse type shape. When I open it in 
> corel, the circle stays smooched but the gradient goes back to being 
> circular if that makes sense. Is there a way to make this work?
> -- 
> East Coast Printers
> 34 Park Street #10
> Essex Jct., VT 05452
> (802) 878-8337
> www.eastcoastprinters.com
>
>
> 

Both Draw and Illustrator support radial and linear fountain fills (gradients),
and they should work fine when exported/imported via the AI filter. So far so
good.

If you distort the object in Illy, the fill is distored with it. This feature is
not supported
by Draw, and hence it will not import as expected. On the other hand, there are

conical and square fountain fills in Draw that has no equivalence in
Illustrator, and
therefore they cannot be imported to Illustrator as a true gradient fill. 

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/Ronny Axelsson


"Dennis" <info@eastcoastprinters.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> I am trying to bring a file I made in illustrator into corel. In the file I

> have a circle that I put a circular gradient in and then smooshed the
circle 
> and gradient down to make an ellipse type shape. When I open it in corel, 
> the circle stays smooched but the gradient goes back to being circular if 
> that makes sense. Is there a way to make this work?
> -- 
> East Coast Printers
> 34 Park Street #10
> Essex Jct., VT 05452
> (802) 878-8337
> www.eastcoastprinters.com
> 
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