Clipping path automatically appearing

Hi,
I have an art figure that was created in Illustrator without a clipping path. However, somehow when that art figure was saved as a black and white version, pieces of it were grouped and all of a sudden it has a clipping path tracing the artboard. This is creating problems because the original color version is seen by InDesign as a certain size, and then when we relink to the black and white version, it shrinks the art to accommodate the clipping path.
Anyone know how this is happening and/or how to keep it from occurring? COuld it be that the document was created in CS4 and then opened in CS3?
Thanks

You are welcome, liscola.
You should be aware that using new features in a newer version may lead to loss/deterioration of the actual contents when downsaving; some losses may be less obvious.
In some cases, you may have to Expand to make things survive.
I believe new features that may cause trouble from CS4 to CS3 include gradients with transparency, graphic styles, multiple artboards, and the blob brush.

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Can a preference be set in Indesign to automatically apply the photoshop clipping path to Tiff images?
Cheers Joe.

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This has been a long standing wish of mine, and I've devised this script that "kind of" works.
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#target Illustrator
// script.name = Clip Retaining Color.jsx;
// script.required = at least two paths selected, top most path is the clipping mask;
// script.parent = Herman van Boeijen, www.nimbling.com // 30/11/13;
// *** LIMITED TO A SINGLE STROKE AND/OR FILL OF THE CLIPPING OBJECT***
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if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
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Yay!
#target Illustrator
#targetengine main
// script.name = Clip Retaining Color.jsx;
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    var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
}else{
    Window.alert("You must open at least one document.");
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                clipobject.fillColor = clipcolors.fillColor;}
            if(clipcolors.stroked)      {
                clipobject.stroked = clipcolors.stroked;
                clipobject.strokeWidth = clipcolors.strokeWidth;
                clipobject.strokeColor = clipcolors.strokeColor;}
}//PasteAppearance END

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I am still using CS2, but this same problem has happened when I open a legacy (older version) file in CS4..... When I open a file, it all of a sudden has a clipping path around the image. Also, it is slicing up some images randomly. It is very strang and I can't explain it. I just saved and closed the file yesterday and today I go to open it on the same computer and all the photos have these clipping masks around them and some are sliced into multiple pieces. Can anyone help with this???

It's easily explained: It is opening the data as if it were an EPS or PDF, so the fault is probably with the options you chose when you saved the files in
CS2. Check them. also of course keep in mind that some specific features have notably changed, so it may do thius simply to retain appearance, which you can influence by setting teh respective prefs....
Mylenium

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Popup - Finished
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Hi, there,
I found this discussion during a search for alpha channels vs. clipping paths for clipping (for a job I'm working on), and thought I'd offer my own feedback based on my own experiences w/ similar files. I can't really offer a printer perspective, however, although we do work closely with many and also print film fairly regularly for local printers who are not yet Direct-To-Plate.
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I find that alpha channels don't look very good when used in InDesign. They're just not that smooth/precise, in my admittedly limited use.
I've uploaded a quick sample to http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Xiebinrui/Alpha_vs_Clipping.jpg -- it's pretty self-explanatory, but the left side shows the bottom of an image using an alpha channel created from the original clipping path (cmd-click on the path to create a selection and then click the "create channel" button in the Channels tab, which automatically creates an "Alpha 1" channel), with the original clipped version on the right. I've tried adjusting the threshold and tolerance in InDesign, but it just always looks bad.
I also haven't used the behemoth Photoshop EPS format since my QuarkXPress/Mac OS 9 days (even then, it eventually became possible to use TIFFs w/ clipping paths -- I could finally see my photo correctly instead of with the horrible Quark EPS preview).
Anyway, re: alpha channels, maybe it's just that I don't know the right way to use them, but they don't seem to be very smooth when importing into InDesign (I was working on a job yesterday and today for which I had to download hi-res images from the client -- many of which used alpha channels instead of actual paths, but they're used on white backgrounds in InDesign, so I just didn't use the channels).
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How do I transform a clipping path and layer at same time?

I have a bunch of images with clipping paths that need to be altered. Most images need skewed or distorted, and I can't figure out how to transform the path at the same time I transform the layer - so I do not have to create new paths. Thanks
Working in Photoshop CS2

I’m afraid You will have to employ a workaround.
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I'm creating a logo that employs a stippled texture (a half-tone) in various sections of objects comprising the logo. I've placed the stipple where I want it, created a clipping path to capture the area. Now I have all these other points that I don't need that I want to delete.
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Mylenium

Clipping paths in AICS3 IMPROVED!

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Just a word here...
After reading Bill's thread: Illustrator with Freehand
Features..
Mordy Golding put up links to a video podcast about AICS3 and
some of
the great enhancements...
Here's a link Illustrator CS3 Overview
<
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2007/03/real-world-illustrator-podcast.html>
you'll need to sign up to Mordy's video podcasts if you
haven't already.
Including the new way in which clipping paths works!.. I
believe the
method of creating a clipping path may still be the same
however the BIG
difference now is that at the very least alignment uses the
clipping
path and not the contents!!! a good step in the right
direction.. I'm
still not sure whether the clipping contents outside the path
remain
visible or not.. as per previous versions.. but it will be
interesting
to see what it's like once it starts to ship and people get
their hands
on it.
Incidentally I used Freehand from version 3 on a PC to MX but
our studio
got fed up with Freehands bad color fidelity for printing
comps - it
worked fine for output of fairly simple spot colour jobs but
full colour
stuff was getting difficult to manage. I didn't cross over
lightly - I
used AIv10 in the background sometimes duplicating jobs in AI
from
Freehand in my spare time to see how it worked. While I loved
the tools
in Freehand - pen tool, Find and replace, paste inside etc..
better
colour fidelity and integration with InDesign and Photoshop
and more
reliability for output were more crucial to us than the
tools. That's
just me/us.
But at the end of the day it looks like AICS3 is giving us at
least some
of what we've been asking for.
I hope this has been of some help.
Kind Regards
Piers Le Sueur
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word here... 
 
After reading Bill's thread: Illustrator with Freehand
Features.. 
Mordy Golding put up links to a video podcast about AICS3 and
some of
the great enhancements... 
 
Here's a link <a
href="
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2007/03/real-world-illustrator-podcast.html">Illustrator
CS3 Overview</a> you'll need to sign up to Mordy's
video podcasts if
you haven't already. 
 
Including the new way in which clipping paths works!.. I
believe the
method of creating a clipping path may still be the same
however the
BIG difference now is that at the very least alignment uses
the
clipping path and not the contents!!! a good step in the
right
direction.. I'm still not sure whether the clipping contents
outside
the path remain visible or not.. as per previous versions..
but it will
be interesting to see what it's like once it starts to ship
and people
get their hands on it. 
 
Incidentally I used Freehand from version 3 on a PC to MX but
our
studio got fed up with Freehands bad color fidelity for
printing comps
- it worked fine for output of fairly simple spot colour jobs
but full
colour stuff was getting difficult to manage. I didn't cross
over
lightly - I used AIv10 in the background sometimes
duplicating jobs in
AI from Freehand in my spare time to see how it worked. While
I loved
the tools in Freehand - pen tool, Find and replace, paste
inside etc..
better colour fidelity and integration with InDesign and
Photoshop and
more reliability for output were more crucial to us than the
tools.
That's just me/us. 
 
But at the end of the day it looks like AICS3 is giving us at
least
some of what we've been asking for. 
 
I hope this has been of some help. 
 
Kind Regards 
Piers Le Sueur 

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(I'm still not sure whether the clipping contents outside the
path remain
visible or not.. as per previous versions)
Yes the contents are still visable.
AI cs3 does have a new quick mask type feature. It only works
on placed images and not vector artwork. When you place a Photo
there is a button that appears in the top menu bar called "MASK"
..ooo haha.
So in one step you can set your photo in a clipping mask
"square" shape only. It creats a path that is the exact size of the
image you have placed. From there you can resize the path to crop
the image as needed. the menu bar also shows more options like
adding a stroke etc.

Clipping paths inverting in CS3

I see that this has been discussed previously, (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c05af0b/12) but the topic is now archived so I wondered if there are any new thoughts on the matter.
Images with clipping paths that work perfectly in CS and CS2 are coming into CS3 with the path inverted. The clipping paths are set up correctly in Photoshop, so it's not the paths that need to be fixed. Now I know that a simple fix is to go into Photoshop and create a mask using the path, but we work on catalogues with hundreds of images that are supplied to us with clipping paths - seemingly standard practice for the image libraries that are supplying the images.
Our catalogues/mailers are weekly productions so we have 5 on the go at any one time and that means a lot of images - up to 300 for each publication. Thankfully it doesn't affect every image!
I can't determine why it happens to some and not others, but it is definitely frustrating. We also have to redownload the images for each publication, so we end up fixing the same image over and over again. This is a consequence of how the image libraries that we are working with operate - we are not allowed to keep a copy of the images.
Has anyone come across a way around this, other than editing in Photoshop? Any suggestions gratefully received.
Steve
Indesign CS3, 10.5.4 on 3.06GHz Intel iMacs

Yes the images that invert are RGB, but then so are the ones that work perfectly - and all of them worked OK in CS2.
And yes, the path is set as 'subtract from shape area' - and THAT appears to be the difference between ones that work and ones that don't work...so what does that mean? Again, all the images worked fine in CS2.
Does it mean that CS3 (Photoshop/Indesign) is messing up the paths, or does it mean that CS2 (Photoshop/Indesign) was more forgiving? Unfortunately we no longer have CS2 installed so I can't test that.
Even though it is fairly simple to fix, and there are various ways to fix it, the problem still remains the amount of images that are affected and that we can't make a permanent fix to the images. next time we re-download them from the image libraries we will need to fix them again.
Perhaps I need to flag the problem images to the image libraries, but I want to be sure of my facts first.
Thanks for the input guys.

EPS photos with Clipping paths dont show in Quark Xpress

Anyone experience why a Photoshop file with a clipping path will not preview when brought into Quark Xpress unless I save the preview as a tiff?
I use photoshop 7.1.

From desktopublishing.com's review of QuarkXpress 4
"The ability to control a picture's appearance in several areas. For example if you want to make a specific part of an image transparent, simply specifying the part using the clipping paths, the alpha channel that is embedded in the original picture, or the white area of the image. It can also read clipping paths in either TIFF or EPS format. Trapping tools and supports most popular color spaces, including Hexachrome, are also included."
and according to Wikipedia, Xpress 4 was released in 1997, eleven years ago with 4.1 coming two years later.
So, while I was just guessing thinking back over the last decade of versions, I was not far off, and I can't remember ever having a clipping path problem with tiffsthat version. Of course, if you didh't save the clipping path as a Clipping Path in Ps, then you would have a problem. That has been fixed now too.

Importing SVG with nested clip-path

I'm having serious issues in Illustrator CS5 trying to import SVG files with nested clip-path properties.
Illutrator seems to create unnecessary groups, and messes up with group parents, effectively screwing things up.
Here is a minimal example :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd" [<!ENTITY ns_svg "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><!ENTITY ns_xlink "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">]>
<svg version="1.1" id="main" overflow="visible" xmlns="&ns_svg;" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<g id="piece-1">
 <g clip-path="url(#cpform)" id="form1">
 <g clip-path="url(#cplogo)" id="logo1">
 <rect fill="#FF0000" x="10" y="10" width="1000" height="1000" />
 </g>
 </g>
</g>
<g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,200,0)" id="piece-2">
 <g clip-path="url(#cpform)" id="form2">
 <g clip-path="url(#cplogo)" id="logo2">
 <rect fill="#FF0000" x="10" y="10" width="1000" height="1000" />
 </g>
 </g>
</g>
<clipPath id="cpform">
 <rect x="0" y="0" width="150" height="150">
 </rect>
</clipPath>
<clipPath id="cplogo">
 <rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100">
 </rect>
</clipPath>
</svg>
Such a valid SVG file displays fine in Chrome, IE, Opera, Firefox, but Illustrator fails loading it properly, because it creates two groups between "main" and "piece-1" (which is in itself not too bad), and sets piece-1 as a brother of another unnecesarry group from which piece-2 will descend. piece-2 and piece-1 are then clipped with piece-1 clip-path, which is just plain wrong and screws display.
Note that you can move piece-2 to the root of the document, which restores the display. But save this fixed file, and open it again : it"s back to its broken state.
Does anoyone know if this is fixed in CS6 ? If there is a workaround ?

AI doesn't care for the original structure of an SVG. It will merely try to retain the appearance based on its own internal logic, which of course matches how you would create a normal AI file. So no, you can't probably avoid it.
Mylenium

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