help resetting invisible leftover/imported properties in Illustrator. Any ideas?

[Denis Kolar]

Weird.  It's at 12 percent, but why isn't the orange color showing through in illustrator?  Is there some setting on the white object that doesn't render the percent fills as shades on top of the orange?  I'm lost lol.  When I pull the fill slider down on the orange it gets lighter as you would expect.  But on the white, it gets, brighter/same.

click the element, and in the transparency pallet, change the drop down to "Multiply" (I think anyway, no time to check right now)

Steve

That would work for anything but the white. White will disappear over the other color

[Sbrem]

Weird.  It's at 12 percent, but why isn't the orange color showing through in illustrator?  Is there some setting on the white object that doesn't render the percent fills as shades on top of the orange?  I'm lost lol.  When I pull the fill slider down on the orange it gets lighter as you would expect.  But on the white, it gets, brighter/same.

click the element, and in the transparency pallet, change the drop down to "Multiply" (I think anyway, no time to check right now)

Steve

That would work for anything but the white. White will disappear over the other color

You are correct, I was thinking of a white gradient, D-oh. Still, how can this be previewed? The problem is in the making, where they should have used the color at 100% with a 12% transparency, then it would be visible...

Steve

[cvreeland]

That's one of the shortcomings of Illustrator - Adobe makes the assumption that everything in the world prints on white paper, so 0% white looks the same as 100% white.

I have a template that I use that I have a "Spot White" swatch in that is actually tinted lt. blue & the first thing I do when I get a new file is to copy everything into that template, add a background layer with a rectangle that's the shirt color, then I select all the white bits & turn them into my "spot white" & problems quickly become apparent.

[blue moon]

That's one of the shortcomings of Illustrator - Adobe makes the assumption that everything in the world prints on white paper, so 0% white looks the same as 100% white.

I have a template that I use that I have a "Spot White" swatch in that is actually tinted lt. blue & the first thing I do when I get a new file is to copy everything into that template, add a background layer with a rectangle that's the shirt color, then I select all the white bits & turn them into my "spot white" & problems quickly become apparent.

I am stealing that idea! My spot white has been slightly grayish, but that is sometimes hard to see. Adding a little bit of color will make it much better! Thanx for that tip.

pierre

[Sbrem]

I just create spot white, with no tint, and it prints.

[cvreeland]

I just create spot white, with no tint, and it prints.

Sure  it'll print, but when you've got clients sending you files with white in them, and they've used 0% black for some, 0% cmyk for other bits, 0.5% cyan for yet other bits, and you've got to hunt them all down and turn them in to one color, it really helps to be able to see which ones you've caught & which ones you haven't.

The record so far over here is 8 different colors of "white." Amateur "power users" are dangerous with the cmyk sliders.