[PookJP]

You know how you think you're pretty good with a program, but then you just run up on a simple little thing you don't know how to do? Yeah, that's me and Illustrator 10 right now.

I have a black and white checkered background, and I want to invert the text over the checks (black where the background is white, white where the background is black). How do I go about doing this? Doing it by hand will take forever...

Thanks!

[PookJP]

Hi, Pook, infinite dumbass.

I figured it out.


*slaps myself*

[kaboom]

Well?
How did you do it?
I'm sure there are others here that might not know or might have different ways of doing it.

[RedStar]

Originally posted by kaboom:
Well?
How did you do it?
I'm sure there are others here that might not know or might have different ways of doing it.

I think using the "exclude overlapping shape areas" option in the pathfinder window would do it.

[godzookie2k]

or you could just do the difference layer effect.

[RedStar]

or you could change each letter individually.

heh

[PookJP]

Originally posted by RedStar:
I think using the "exclude overlapping shape areas" option in the pathfinder window would do it.

That's the one!

BUT BUT BUT.... godzookie2k, what are you referring to? Do tell...

[chris.p]

you could have selected a box, chosen 'select same fill' from the 'select>same>fill' and changed colour, or just shifted the pattern the checker box width to the left or right (select all, double click the arrow key, and enter the offset). But you have worked it out, so thats cool- I'm not totally trusting the layer effects in AI right now, they can rip a bit funny.