So I am prepping this artwork for pre-press, and whenever I rotate it to fit it on the press sheet, the R’s go funky as if I don’t have a closed path. I have checked to ensure all paths are closed, and none of the other compound paths in the word are doing what this R is doing. It doesn’t do this until I hit exactly 90 degrees rotation, which of course is what I need.
I can’t just put a shape overlay there of white as a workaround, because the background is an image with a screened PMS overlay.
So… I was thinking “well this is happening at exactly 90 degrees so maybe 89.9 will work and no one would notice…” and it worked! Though if anyone has any insight because this does happen from time to time. Wondering if it’s a problem with the font before outlining.
That’s really strange. I’ve never seen that before. It only affects the R and only shows up when rotated to 90 degrees. That makes me very curious. Would you mind uploading the outlined vector file? If not, that’s OK, but I wouldn’t mind picking it apart.
It behaves exactly the same way on my end. I looked at every point on the outline, and everything is good. If you move the points on the right side of the counter, even the tiniest bit, the problem goes away.
I ran into a similar problem with an Adobe font a couple of months ago where if I outlined it, a weird nonsensical fill just like yours would appear. Also like your R, the problem went away if I moved certain points in the outline.
My best guess is that it’s some sort of hard-to-track-down math error in Illustrator that shows up in very specific situations. I opened the file in Affinity Designer and rotated it 90 degrees without any issues.
Follow-up: I just read Smurf2’s post. What he says seems right.
It seems to have something to do with this entire line of nodes beneath the green area. If any of them are moved enough, the problem disappears. I suspect it’s some sort of rounding or calculation error in the display of the object (It prints out on my laser printer just fine). Tilt the entire thing just a bit and the math-like glitch disappears.