Clipping mask produces jagged lines

Hi,
Why is it sometimes a clipping mask produces jagged lines? I know if there's a dark background and a light one sitting on top of it, then this happens. is there a solution to clearing this out when applying a mask?? You can see in the screenshot I've circled where you see the jagged lines and in the layers palette you can see the clipping mask object. If someone can explain, i would appeciate it.
Thanks a bunch.

I did not read all the postings in this thread but the bug I believe is an old one tht has been reported sometime agao and is stillthere in 15.02.
If you have one onbject over another object then you will get this artifact showing
But if you eliemante the underlying color such as I did here by making a compund path of the underlying object and a copy of the overlying object and then make the clipping mask all is well

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I'm so frustrated and hope someone can help me, I've already spent a few hours trying to figure this out and looked through a number of tutorials and troubleshoot forums and I cant find an answer.
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Hello, so about a week ago I was having some trouble with my clipping mask I had posted a question Here about it. Over the week I believe i see what the problem maybe but i do not know how to fix it (once again) This is what I mean:
As you can see in the image above, there are little pixels around the image after i finished coloring and erasing my mess. (i used a wacom tablet to do this by the way.)
In this image I created a clipping mask over the image above and i began "shading." But the color went over once again. I Believe it has something to do with those little pixels.
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http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-create-a-medieval-paper-scroll/
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For my part you are welcome, stalsbee. Steve is an hour later than I (or not), so when I stopped posting about 00.14 AM yesterday, he posted here until 23.39 PM.
By the way, if you are in a scathing mood (or just tire of selecting the parts outside the Bounding Box of the Clipping Path, or wish to reduce the (file) size for export) you may use the Clipping Mask destructively (always save (a copy of) the artwork before destroying it):
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the top layer is a shape i created in autocad. and my shape, it's really just a bunch of lines.
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the only thing i can think of is that illustrator isn't as precise as autocad and the place where two lines come together to make a point, well they actually don't in illustrator.
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Adam,
Who can clip with a bunch of lines, even after grouping them?
What happens if you join the lines into a closed shape and Ctrl+7?

Clipping mask issue.. simple one but I can't see it.

I want to fill the pattern into the shield.
Tried everything on this, it's so simple that I can not even see it.
Maybe it's the double lines on outline view?
Please help. Multi million dollar idea going to waste.

Kanokane,
I tried to just give a detailed list of things to do, with no explanation.
Fundamentally, you use a single path (which may be a Compound Path) as the Clipping Path of the Clipping Mask, and you select both that and whatever you have beneath it that you wish to clip.
When you apply the Clipping Mask, everything covered by the Clipping Path remains visible, and everything else becomes invisible; and the Clipping Path also becomes invisible, losing its Stroke and/or Fill (Fill in this case).
So when your shield is a rather thin Compound Path formed by the outer and the inner path, only the parts between those become visible, instead of filling the space inside.
1) is meant to keep the visible black outline formed by the Compound Path on top of everything else, and to bring a copy of either the outer or the inner path down beneath it; this is to serve as the Clipping Path; Alt/OptionClicking is to select the whole path, not just an Anchor Point or a segment.
2) is meant to bring the pattern down beneath the Clipping Path.
3) is meant to preserve the visible black outline formed by the Compound Path (by locking it) and to select the Clipping Path and the pattern (when the Compound Path is locked, you can just ClickDrag over everything and avoid selecting it), then apply the Clipping Mask.
4) is meant to have everything as a Group (consisting of the Compound Path and the Clipping Mask).
Whether you use the inner or outer path as the Clipping Path matters little; in the former case only the space inside the black rim is visible, in the latter case, the outermost part of it is hidden be the rim.

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When I use a clipping mask, I want to preserve at least the fill and stroke of the container object. Freehand did this. It would be cool if Adobe analyzed what Freehand did better than Illustrator.
As it is, I'm forced either to recolor the container object, or to make a copy of it juts to contain the second shape, which adds to the layer clutter, and has the disadvantage of getting in the way of the primary shape.

According to me, so Hides the object to create a new shape to work as well in PhotoShop. Why do I need a new shape for me to add itself to group obiect no fill and no outline of how I wanted. Just that it was just like a dashed line indicated in the Outline view mode.
Adobe probably does not want to lose customers mixing the old with the new solution, but if it's a good way? Just that it will conduct a survey of the market.
Now it is overly complicated. Here, I made up such a description.
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