[austin5string]

Hey out there - any Illustrator gurus?! I have a quick question.

When I have a circular inlay design in Illustrator and then I go to open it up in Photoshop, I seem to have a varying canvas size - space outside the design, rather than a canvas sized the same as my circular design. Meaning, if I open up the .ai file and say to open it up as 4x4 inches, the canvas will be 4x4, but the design will only be 3x3 or something (it varies.)

I thought maybe I had some stray objects in the .ai file that caused it, but there's nothing.

Anyone have any thoughts on what causes this and how to avoid it?

Feel free to email me the response if you don't want to post it here..

austin5string AT cox DOT net

Thanks in advance!
~John

[Colquhoun]

The only time that I have ever seen the situation you describe, it WAS stray objects or points outside the design. You dont see any points highlight if you "select all" outside your design?

[Bostonpokerchips]

I agree, you may want to check and see if you have any invisible layers as well

[Johnny5]

What versions of AI & PS are you using?

Are you opening the .AI file directly in PS? What does it look like if you export to a raster format(say jpg) from AI, and open that file in PS?

If you want to send the file, let me know & I'll be glad to take a look at it.

Originally Posted by austin5string

Hey out there - any Illustrator gurus?! I have a quick question.

When I have a circular inlay design in Illustrator and then I go to open it up in Photoshop, I seem to have a varying canvas size - space outside the design, rather than a canvas sized the same as my circular design. Meaning, if I open up the .ai file and say to open it up as 4x4 inches, the canvas will be 4x4, but the design will only be 3x3 or something (it varies.)

I thought maybe I had some stray objects in the .ai file that caused it, but there's nothing.

Anyone have any thoughts on what causes this and how to avoid it?

Feel free to email me the response if you don't want to post it here..

austin5string AT cox DOT net

Thanks in advance!
~John

[austin5string]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the input.. I don't have any stray points, so that wasn't it. Exporting gave the same results..

I thought I might have figured it out. The bounding box on some of my paths extended outside the width of the circle due to rotating for positioning text. So I selected everything and reset the bounding boxes for it all. No dice.

Johnny - I'll send you a file that does it and see if you get the same thing. I'm using AI 10 and PS CS..

Thanks again!
~John