Live paint limitations – Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual
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See also
“Painting methods” on page 151
“About fills and strokes” on page 152
Live Paint limitations
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 and commands that work on an entire Live Paint group, but not on individual faces and edges
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Transparency
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Effects
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Multiple fills and strokes from the Appearance panel
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Envelope Distort
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Object > Hide
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Object > Rasterize
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Object > Slice > Make Guides
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Make Opacity Mask (in the Transparency panel menu)
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Brushes (You can apply brushes to an entire Live Paint group if you add a new stroke to the group using the
Appearance panel.)
Features that don’t work on Live Paint groups
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Gradient meshes
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Graphs
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Symbols from the Symbols panel
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Flares
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Align Stroke options from the Stroke panel
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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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Clipping Mask
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Make
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Crop Area > Make
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Create Gradient Mesh