Expand Clipping Group
Please let the Expand function work for Clipping Groups as well, to get rid of the Clipping Mask while keeping the intersected objects.
Jan Vork
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Oscar, yeah, I am seeing the problem and confirm it.
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If you want more automated solution, you can try https://mai-tools.com/super-magic-eraser commercial script. Hope this can help at least in some cases.
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Oscar Obians commented
Hi Egor, It's been a while since I posted the comment above but if I remember correctly, I had issues expanding some complex repeat objects. I covered it in this video: https://youtu.be/n1_p_qCGdlo?t=468
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Jan, can you illustrate it with a mockup?
What do you have, and what you expect to get?Oscar, you can Expand new Repeat objects, and it gives a clipping group. What do you expect to get then? Please elaborate.
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Jan, this is an extremely difficult task.
Remember, we can clip whatever we want. Gradient mesh grids, art with opacity masks, linked images, live text — how do you see the operation handling all of these? -
Jan Vork
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A clipping mask is a non destructive Pathfinder function avant la lettre.
Please make it possible to 'expand' it, in the same way as Compound Pathfinder shapes. -
Because of the absence of this feature, there is no easy way to Expand the new Repeat tools that were introduced with the 25.1 update
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Daniel B
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A destructive clipping mask would be nice. I have to save as svg for the laser printer, and the svg shows the clipped area!
