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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
See also
“To create a Live Paint group” on page 232
“To select faces and edges with the Live Paint Selection tool” on page 267
Limits to Live Paint groups
Fill and paint attributes are attached to faces and edges of a Live Paint group—not to the actual paths that define
them, as in other Illustrator objects. Because of this, some features and commands either work differently or are not
applicable to paths inside a Live Paint group.
Features that don’t work on Live Paint groups:
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Transparency
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Brushes
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Effects
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Gradient meshes
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Graphs
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Symbols from the Symbols palette
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Flares
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Align Stroke options from the Stroke palette
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Multiple fills and strokes from the Appearance palette
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The Magic Wand tool
Object commands that don’t work on Live Paint groups:
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Outline Stroke
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Expand (You can use the Object > Live Paint > Expand command instead.)
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Blend
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Slice
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Envelope Distort
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Clipping Mask > Make
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Crop Area > Make
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Create Gradient Mesh
Miscellaneous commands that don’t work on Live Paint groups:
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Pathfinder commands
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File > Place
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View > Guides > Make
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Select > Same commands
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Object > Hide
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Object > Text Wrap > Make