We have a 24 pc one color w/halftones (front and back) that needs to be printed on Tuesday. The customer (and alleged artist) sent the art in AI. The problem is it's all white with clipping paths etc galore making it difficult to change it to black for output.
My first thought was to just export to PS, invert, convert to bitmap, print the film and be done with it but I thought this would be a good "learning moment" for me.
My skills with IA are limited but getting better. The design is solid type in the center, a 10% striped burst with a short gradient of 10% to 0% at the end of each burst stripe, and a 15% splatter.
My real question here is how to get the different elements to where they are easy to edit, or just convert to different levels of black in AI.
Based on this limited info do you have any advice?