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• • March 16, 2015 at 1:05 pm #73974
    Amanda Taylor

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    Hi!

    I created a document to house all of my favorite dingbats/special characters/ornaments from my font collection that have all been outlined into shapes with no transparency effects. I often look around this document as I am designing and copy any wanted elements to other InDesign projects I am working on.

    Somewhere along the line, something changed. My ornaments seem to have a transparency effect applied to them. They are all set to k=100 black in the document with no transparency effects applied but when I bring them into a project and apply a color, say magenta, and put the element on top of an image, the element acts like it is set to ‘Multiply’ or ‘Overlay’ or something. I don’t think I’ve always had this problem. Now when I check random ornaments, they all act as though they have an effect.

    I like to work with “Overprint Preview” on and I’ve noticed when I turn it off, then my elements don’t seem to have the effect and appear as if I had the “Isolate Blending” box ticked. (but I don’t)

    Now, if I draw my own shape in a project, or select a dingbat from my fonts, it acts as it should. It will show a transparency effect if I choose one, or it will sit on top and not interact with elements below if I don’t have an effect applied. If I use the eyedropper to pick up attributes from a ‘corrupt’ ornament that I’ve brought into the document, then my hand-drawn element that was acting fine will pick up the color and look as though it has an effect applied, like Screen/Multiply. My effects panel shows that my Object, Stroke, and Fill are all set to “Normal 100%” though. I can’t find anywhere where it seems an effect has been applied.

    Is there some sort of document working space I’ve messed up? I hope this makes sense – perhaps there is an easy fix right under my nose?

    Example:Green ribbon is my naughty element that I copied in. I drew the magenta rectangle. When I use an eyedropper on the green ribbon, my magenta box looks the same as that ribbon even though I cannot find where an effect is applied?!

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  • March 16, 2015 at 1:22 pm #73975
    Colleen Shannon

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    It may be an Overprint issue (common with vector art).

    Try this:

    Select dingbat with Direct Selection tool (open arrow).
    Window->Output-Attributes

    If Overprint fill is checked, uncheck.

  • March 16, 2015 at 1:50 pm #73977
    Amanda Taylor

    Member

    Yes Colleen — the Overprint box was checked. I have unchecked it and all appears to be fine now. Thank you SO much!

    One more question — is this something I did? How? If so, I want to avoid accidentally doing it in the future!

    <big hug> Thanks!

  • March 16, 2015 at 5:27 pm #73987
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    It’s nothing you did!

    For some reason, a lot of vector artwork gets set to Overprint by default when outlining fonts, and it gets set by accident in Illustrator. Most people don’t notice if they never have their work printed.

    I don’t think you change Overprint to several items in InDesign, but you can copy and fix all in Illustrator. The main thing in InDesign is to check Attributes with both the Selection and the Direct Selection tool.

    You’re welcome!

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