Illustrator CS2: Color shift to gray in gradient
If you open up an Illustrator 10 file in Illustrator CS2, some gradients might be gray (de-saturated), but the colors on the ends of the gradient look fine.
Illustrator CS2 will not let you gradient a Pantone (Spot Color). This makes since in the printing world, but if you are using Illustrator to layout a webpage, it is annoying. The answer is to change the Pantone swatch that is used in the gradient to a process color within the Swatch palette.
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August 2nd, 2006 at 10:44 am
I’m having issues with all my colors shifting when opening a Illustrator 10 document in CS2.
Also my fonts are “Bolder”.
Any ides? This is a major issue for me as i’m doing most all of my web designs in illustrator.
-John Leger
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:17 am
Are your Edit>>Color Settings the same? That would be my first thing to check.
Try Adobe Forums next.
This post might help.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbec4e4/3
–Stephen
August 4th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Thanks, Stephen.
I’ll check it out.
-John