Anyone familiar with Adobe Illustrator???

[Crystal]

I am trying to clean up an image to cut on my vinyl cutter... I know this forum is for SCAL and I have that too, but I am trying to cut a bigger image on my vinyl machine. When importing an image into AI there are double lines. Is there a way to get rid of the double lines?

Thanks in advance

Crystal

[HeatherM]

There may be a better way, but try Object/Compound path/Release, then Object/Ungroup. This will let you use the Selection tool rather than the Direct selection tool to select the lines that you want to delete. HTH

[linann]

There may be a better way, but try Object/Compound path/Release, then Object/Ungroup. This will let you use the Selection tool rather than the Direct selection tool to select the lines that you want to delete. HTH

Great advise Heather. That's the way I do it. On rare occassions, when the design has graduated fill applied, creating multiple layers, I export to a jpg, or bmp file. Flood fill the image I want to copy, and trace the edges. I've even selected the background, then used select inverse, painted the design black, and then traced using trace outline. I use many tricks to get what I want quickly. It's quicker than it sounds. You can also copy/paste the parts from the orginal vector file, to complete the design. There's more than one way to get the job done quickly and accurately.

[Crystal]

Thanks so much for the help. We got it figured out! Everyone on here are always so willing to help and knowledgeable!

Crystal