Does anyone know why fountain fills change, either in colour or direction, when they are placed in a symbol? When I am inside the symbol, all the fountain fills are perfect, but when I am outside of the symbol, the fountain fills are incorrect. The fountain fill also fails to rotate when the symbol is rotated, making the fountin fill reversed and incorrect.
Hoping someone knows a solution to this, thanks!
I typed a letter A. I converted it to curve. Apply fountain fill and drag and drop to Symbol Manager Docker.
I drag and drop the symbol, and rotate it different angles and directions. Every thing is fine.
I edit the symbol and modify fill, without problem, and changes are reflected in every symbol instance.
Thanks for your reply Michael. Doing this action works for me also. From what I observe, the fountain fills are incorrect whenever I use imported eps logos provided by clients within the symbol, rather than artwork I have created myself. Do you have any ideas? Thank you
I conducted a test. I took a client logo where the fountain fill was incorrect when positioned in a symbol. I redrew the logo from scratch. I then copied all the fountain fills over from the original logo. Then placed the new redrawn logo in the symbol. The fountain fills were correct. Therefore, I conclude that imported vector files that have fountain fills do not work in symbols. Does anyone know a trick to fix this or can explain why? Thank you.x
I know exactly what you are talking about, I get it on a daily basis.
Fountain fills in symbols have always been a bit of a problem, but when X6 came out it seemed all under control.
Something has happened to X6 recently (maybe since X7 came out) and now fountain fills are messing up in a few different things. For instance, trying to use RMB-hold to copy a fountain fill to a new object just doesn't work properly if you have flipped the object (it turns it 180)
But, the real thing you want to know is how to get those gradients to work that have been done in a previous version of CD or in some other software.
The answer - Put the art into a POWERCLIP within the symbol. Hey presto, all gradients now show correctly. Or you can change it to a bitmap.
P.S. Send me a PM where you are working on the Gold Coast?