Awhile back I posted a topic about a problem I was having with the Split/Join tools. They have changed in the new update and I was able to resolve the issue I was having at the time. My current issue is somewhat similar but this time the line is on the bounding edge instead of an interior edge. I have attached a screenshot showing the shape. I want to hide the lines where the driveway exits the parking lot but I want to keep the translucent fill. I can cut the line on both driveways at either end and then hide the line by removing the stroke option but the fill disappears unless I have at least one of the lines exposed. I have tried cutting and hiding both lines and then gluing the back together but that does not work.
Try to set transparent the color of the line exposed.
I don’t quite follow you.
You have a parking lot shape that has a translucent fill and a stroke but at the end of the curved driveway – you have cut the shape so that there is no stroke ? and this represents the entrance to the curved driveway?
But the entrance at the top of parking lot shape – you want a similar effect, no stroke?
Yea, that’s a bit interesting when you want TWO spots gone. I tried it on some other shapes, and when I make the 3rd cut, it tries to close the now-two-shapes-out-of-one, and that’s not what you were expecting.
Workarounds: this became a mess of a response, so I’d just say masking, or use a copy with Tools->Offset, etc…
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my previous responese:
I draw a lot of white (well, in your case 241-240-235 tan) rectangles and freehand fills over things to poorman’s-photoshop them, then group them with the original. That’s what I’d do here.
All the other cutesy things I tried don’t work. Lines combine styles when connected, and when they aren’t connected, the fill changes.
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ps - you could also try the Tools->Offset and maybe do something with that?
Ok, this seemed like a winner and I was wondering why I hadn’t thought of that but the trouble is that the surrounding shape fill is translucent. So when I match the patch shape fill and it goes translucent you can see the line through it.
Yea, I’ll stop typing (and watching a basketball game) and think about this some more. There’s always a way…
Not worth leaving the game for! I was messing around with trying to colour match the translucent fill as an opaque fill and wasn’t having any luck but just managed to make it work now. Although no idea how I did. The colour swatch tool has always been a bit of a mystery to me.
You can also use three shapes. The parking lot shape with fill and no stroke. And then the outline, with stroke and no fill would need to be two different shapes/lines. Putting the fill shape on a different layer than the outline shapes would help with selecting the correct shape if you need to edit.
The thing to remember about the color match is that it’s trying to give you what every app on Mac gets for free, so to a Mac user it sorta makes sense. And know that it does transparency. In a previous life, I worked on a Mac App that could drag color swatches into a text document and give you the RGB values of the swatch.
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