problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4

[blue moon]

I have a logo that has a clipping mask inside the layers.  I go to flatten transparency, expand and then pathfinder merge. At that point the clipping mask disappears and the stuff that was blocked by it is now on top. How do I get around it?

[Denis Kolar]

Ungroup....select the part that is in the clipping mask and lock it in place........hide the rest of the stuff..........unlock the locked item and remove clipping mask.........fill the part that was used as a clipping mask with the color and use it as a Crop tool in Pathfinder pallet (See attached, 4th one in the bottom row)..........show the rest of the hidden stuff..........done

[blue moon]

OK, so it is the crop tool!

thanx that took a while but I got it.

[Denis Kolar]

I had fixed file attached. You could have used that one.

[blue moon]

I had fixed file attached. You could have used that one.

thanx, I missed the file. In any case, it really did not need to be done, I just needed to learn how and this was a good case to learn on.

thanx again!

[Denis Kolar]

ur welcome