Illustrator Cropping

[rmcmurray]

Ok, I'm in Illustrator CS2 and I'm trying to export an image as a tif. However, there is a bunch of art that's overlapping the document edge, and it when I export the tif it either includes all of the other artwork, or the white area if there's a clipping mask on the art. And, for my job, we can't have that. So, is there an easy way to crop out everything outside the document edge without having to cut all of the paths manually?

[Zendada]

Ok, I'm in Illustrator CS2 and I'm trying to export an image as a tif. However, there is a bunch of art that's overlapping the document edge, and it when I export the tif it either includes all of the other artwork, or the white area if there's a clipping mask on the art. And, for my job, we can't have that. So, is there an easy way to crop out everything outside the document edge without having to cut all of the paths manually?

This really bugs the hell out of me, amongst other things, about illustrator. I haven’t found a way yet so if anyone has one please do spill it. Clipping mask does not work, in CS anyway.

I’ve always just exported/save to web and cropped in Photoshop.

[rmcmurray]

That's exactly how I would prefer to do it, but my job apparently has something against opening the tif in Photoshop, and cropping that way. The only thing that I know how to do is individually cutting each line in Illustrator and cutting out the excess, which is way too time consuming!

[Zendada]

That's exactly how I would prefer to do it, but my job apparently has something against opening the tif in Photoshop, and cropping that way. The only thing that I know how to do is individually cutting each line in Illustrator and cutting out the excess, which is way too time consuming!

Well, unless you are using compression, you aren’t going to lose any quality in the tiff so I have no idea why they would have anything against it. A jpeg, even at 100% quality, maybe. But a tiff?

[Ghastly]

Illy is a bitch for this...and having to make pdfs with em was always fun!...If I was setting any job like this it gets done in Quark or Indesign for precisely this reason. My workaround is to draw a coloured rectangle completely covering the bits I don't want, note the coordinates of the image...fling it into PS (image & rectangle), magic wand/select inverse and crop...then bring it back to illustrator.

unless the offending object is at a corner you need only crop at one side if you're in a hurry

[obesebee]

Here's what you need to do - make a rectangle with the rectangle tool to the outline/edge of the artwork you want to keep in screen, with the rectangle selected go to Object - Crop area - make, and crop marks will appear. Then go to export - as a tiff, open in photoshop, or not and, voila, no junk around the edges - on mine (CS2) it works, anyway.

[Zendada]

Here's what you need to do - make a rectangle with the rectangle tool to the outline/edge of the artwork you want to keep in screen, with the rectangle selected go to Object - Crop area - make, and crop marks will appear. Then go to export - as a tiff, open in photoshop, or not and, voila, no junk around the edges - on mine (CS2) it works, anyway.

omg, it works! ITS ALIVE@!!!!

3 cheers, obesebee!

[rmcmurray]

That totally worked! Now everyone at work thinks I'm a genius..:) Thanks obesebee!