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From: Confused on 17 Jul 2008 12:04
sorry if this has been asked before.....

Illustrator CS3

I have a file from a client that has tons of large bitmaps and objects that are placed inside a
clipping mask. Probably 80% of most of the objects are outside the clipping mask and are not used.
What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping mask, but when I try to
rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution. The reason the object is too
big is because it's trying to rasterize all the extraneous stuff that's outside the clipping mask
that I don't care about, and would only be white anyway. Essentially, the image I'm trying to create
is about 3x12 inches, where the whole area of the objects in the clipping mask are about 10x12. I
don't need that whole area, just the stuff that actually showing in the mask.

Is there any way I can tell Illustrator to ignore all the stuff hanging over the edges of the mask
and just work on the stuff that's showing? I could swear I had found a way to do this before but
have since forgotten how.

Any help appreciated.

Still confused.....
From: steggy on 17 Jul 2008 16:23
Confused schreef:
> sorry if this has been asked before.....
>
> Illustrator CS3
>
> I have a file from a client that has tons of large bitmaps and objects that are placed inside a
> clipping mask. Probably 80% of most of the objects are outside the clipping mask and are not used.
> What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping mask, but when I try to
> rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution. The reason the object is too
> big is because it's trying to rasterize all the extraneous stuff that's outside the clipping mask
> that I don't care about, and would only be white anyway. Essentially, the image I'm trying to create
> is about 3x12 inches, where the whole area of the objects in the clipping mask are about 10x12. I
> don't need that whole area, just the stuff that actually showing in the mask.
>
> Is there any way I can tell Illustrator to ignore all the stuff hanging over the edges of the mask
> and just work on the stuff that's showing? I could swear I had found a way to do this before but
> have since forgotten how.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Still confused.....


Maybe to simple......but why not select the stuff you need, group it.
Select all, deselect the group and hit delete?
From: LawnElf on 17 Jul 2008 16:32
In article <6e9o14F63c15U1(a)mid.individual.net>, steggy(a)hotmail.com
says...
> Confused schreef:
> > sorry if this has been asked before.....
> >
> > Illustrator CS3
> >
> > I have a file from a client that has tons of large bitmaps and objects that are placed inside a
> > clipping mask. Probably 80% of most of the objects are outside the clipping mask and are not used.
> > What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping mask, but when I try to
> > rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution. The reason the object is too
> > big is because it's trying to rasterize all the extraneous stuff that's outside the clipping mask
> > that I don't care about, and would only be white anyway. Essentially, the image I'm trying to create
> > is about 3x12 inches, where the whole area of the objects in the clipping mask are about 10x12. I
> > don't need that whole area, just the stuff that actually showing in the mask.
> >
> > Is there any way I can tell Illustrator to ignore all the stuff hanging over the edges of the mask
> > and just work on the stuff that's showing? I could swear I had found a way to do this before but
> > have since forgotten how.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Still confused.....
>
>
> Maybe to simple......but why not select the stuff you need, group it.
> Select all, deselect the group and hit delete?
>

I believe Confused is referring to parts of the raster images that are
not seen because of the clipping mask, in which case I think the only
way to eliminate the unneeded parts is to crop them in an image editor
such as Photoshop. I'm using CS2 - I think I read that there's a crop
function in CS3, so you could possibly try that too?

If they're truly objects, try making a rectangle at 3x12 inches on top
of everything, then select all and use the Divide function on the
pathfinder pallette. Next ungroup everything, select the unwanted bits
and delete.

Hope that helps.

-- Elf
From: steggy on 17 Jul 2008 16:51
LawnElf schreef:
> In article <6e9o14F63c15U1(a)mid.individual.net>, steggy(a)hotmail.com
> says...
>> Confused schreef:
>>> sorry if this has been asked before.....
>>>
>>> Illustrator CS3
>>>
>>> I have a file from a client that has tons of large bitmaps and objects that are placed inside a
>>> clipping mask. Probably 80% of most of the objects are outside the clipping mask and are not used.
>>> What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping mask, but when I try to
>>> rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution. The reason the object is too
>>> big is because it's trying to rasterize all the extraneous stuff that's outside the clipping mask
>>> that I don't care about, and would only be white anyway. Essentially, the image I'm trying to create
>>> is about 3x12 inches, where the whole area of the objects in the clipping mask are about 10x12. I
>>> don't need that whole area, just the stuff that actually showing in the mask.
>>>
>>> Is there any way I can tell Illustrator to ignore all the stuff hanging over the edges of the mask
>>> and just work on the stuff that's showing? I could swear I had found a way to do this before but
>>> have since forgotten how.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Still confused.....
>>
>> Maybe to simple......but why not select the stuff you need, group it.
>> Select all, deselect the group and hit delete?
>>
>
> I believe Confused is referring to parts of the raster images that are
> not seen because of the clipping mask, in which case I think the only
> way to eliminate the unneeded parts is to crop them in an image editor
> such as Photoshop. I'm using CS2 - I think I read that there's a crop
> function in CS3, so you could possibly try that too?
>
> If they're truly objects, try making a rectangle at 3x12 inches on top
> of everything, then select all and use the Divide function on the
> pathfinder pallette. Next ungroup everything, select the unwanted bits
> and delete.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -- Elf


Good answer. And yes I believe you are right, seeing now Confused is
talking about bitmaps and such.

I do not know how you can get rid of them in Illustrator, as you said:
Photoshop or the like.
From: AES on 17 Jul 2008 17:16
In article <6e9o14F63c15U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
steggy <steggy(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> > What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping mask,
> > but when I try to
> > rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution. The
> > reason the object is

Screen capture?
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