[help]Illustrator cutting a curved line through a "typo"?

[ronviers]

It worked (http://picasaweb.google.com/ronviers/DropBox) for me, but I may not be doing the test exactly right. If you do not work it out, I can try your file if you want. Although I am using cs2 so it may not be valid.

[WilliamL]

Thanks for the reply!!
Im using CS3, but I don't think it matters... actually I think its the step problems or what...

My original file: I made the letters(typo) for a while and I was adding other stuffs thereafter, then later I decided to make a curvy line through my Typo....so the result is as you see, doesn't work and the whole thing dissappear.

While I open up another new file(test), and I just wrote a TYPO thing and right after I drew a wavy line and Outlined the stroke, following by cutting the line throguh the letters and it works.

I mean HOW come it doesn't work when I made out the whole design and I want to cut a wavy line through the "design" after.... is that a BUG?

[ronviers]

I had the same problem. If I did any messing around, with pathfinder or whatever, then it stopped working and I would have to undo until it worked again. I am not surprised; Illustrator is not that great regarding construction history, so I guess we just need to be careful.

[WilliamL]

arggggg =( this is sooo bad..... I thought it was my own problem.... so it's illustrator problem...
Im using illustrator because Im doing some vectoriel stuffs, that's why I hope to do everything into that program(then after I can enlarge the work as big as I want)....while actually Photoshop is much more easy to use; let say if I want to cut a curved line through the typo it would be soooo fast!!(but then in photoshop it will become a bitmap format...so I need to decide the size of the file right at the beginning.

[ronviers]

It seems to me that what you are doing is well within the limits of Illustrator. You just need to be systematic in avoiding doing things Illustrator doesn't like – all software has its particulars. But I also think it could be done as well with Photoshop. Flattening an image or otherwise binding Photoshop's vector to a size can be pushed back to very late in the process.

[Quadart]

It’s not an Illustrator problem.

What are the two horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the type?
If those lines are stroked open-ended lines (not guides) behind the type and you are selecting them as well as the type and the curve, everything will disappear once you hit Expand.

Open-ended lines lying behind shapes will cause the problem your having.

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