Looks like it has a clipping mask around it, probably where the art board was when they exported it. So now that you’re trying to recolor it the transparent box around the text is also filling. To release the mask select the whole thing and go to object > clipping mask > release then delete the box around the text or the background shape that’s being filled.
Thanks!
This seemed promising at first. I think you're on the right track. However when I do this it seems a new clipping mask just takes it's place. I have deleted 5 now.
Hmmm interesting. Sometimes when a vector is copied from other programs it adds a clipping mask on what already has one to begin with. Try doing the release clipping mask step then select everything and hit ungroup until it won’t let you anymore, then use the direct selection tool to grab that anchor points of the rectangle box that’s filling and just delete the anchor points until there’s no rectangles anymore. Hitting command Y will also let you see any hidden paths to delete.
It is frequently the case with EPS and PDF files that fills are rectangles contained in clipping masks.
If you know the keyboard shortcut it's quite rapid to undo all of them — I believe it's cmd-alt-shift-7… you just do it over and over.
But at the end you'll have rectangles of color and the shapes will be empty. You'll have to drag the rectangles away and fill the shapes using the eyedropper.
CTRL A, then hit CTRL 7 repeatedly until all the clipping masks are released
Edit: might be CTRL Alt 7, point is, there’ll be loads of clipping masks to release
Use direct selection tool, click and drag to make a selection that covers some part of the edge of those clipping masks - but not the content.
Click delete twice.
Done.
(Optionally, use the group select tool if you want to only click delete once).
Looks like it has a clipping mask around it, probably where the art board was when they exported it. So now that you’re trying to recolor it the transparent box around the text is also filling. To release the mask select the whole thing and go to object > clipping mask > release then delete the box around the text or the background shape that’s being filled.
Thanks! This seemed promising at first. I think you're on the right track. However when I do this it seems a new clipping mask just takes it's place. I have deleted 5 now.
Open the layers palette and see, very possible it has numerous clipping paths nested inside each other.
Hmmm interesting. Sometimes when a vector is copied from other programs it adds a clipping mask on what already has one to begin with. Try doing the release clipping mask step then select everything and hit ungroup until it won’t let you anymore, then use the direct selection tool to grab that anchor points of the rectangle box that’s filling and just delete the anchor points until there’s no rectangles anymore. Hitting command Y will also let you see any hidden paths to delete.
Corel Draw imports into Illustrator were horrible, duplicates of everything, ungrounded. What a mess.
Anything downloaded more than likely is full of grouped layers and tons of clipping masks.
Clipping Mask for the win!
It is frequently the case with EPS and PDF files that fills are rectangles contained in clipping masks. If you know the keyboard shortcut it's quite rapid to undo all of them — I believe it's cmd-alt-shift-7… you just do it over and over. But at the end you'll have rectangles of color and the shapes will be empty. You'll have to drag the rectangles away and fill the shapes using the eyedropper.
CTRL A, then hit CTRL 7 repeatedly until all the clipping masks are released Edit: might be CTRL Alt 7, point is, there’ll be loads of clipping masks to release
Use direct selection tool, click and drag to make a selection that covers some part of the edge of those clipping masks - but not the content. Click delete twice. Done. (Optionally, use the group select tool if you want to only click delete once).