Combining logo elements in Illustrator
Hello,
Is there some way to combine different logo elements so it becomes one element and you can't ungroup it anymore? I mean other way than Pathfinder - Unite (this means flattening color).
Thanks for your help and suggestions!
...the reason is completely different...
What is the reason? What are you trying to accomplish?
As you've stated it so far, your question is ambiguous and without a better description doesn't really make sense in the context of Illustrator. Describe the actual workflow (chain of events) you are trying to accomplish.
So when someone opens the file there is just one element not many elements grouped all together.
Your terminology is ambiguous. "Element" is not a term of the program. What do you mean by "one element"? A term like "Group" has specific meaning in Illustrator.
What kind of file do you want to deliver? What software do you assume the recipient will be using to "open" it? If you deliver an Illustrator file to someone using the same version of Illustrator, they can do anything to it that you can do when you open it with Illustrator.
A motorcycle is one object. It's an object made up of many individual objects. If I deliver my motorcycle to you, you can manipulate it as a single object. If you have the tools and know-how, you can disassemble it into its constituent objects.
A Group in an object-based drawing program is one object. It's an object made up of individual objects (raster, vector, and/or text). If I deliver to you an Illustrator Group, which I'm calling "a logo," you can manipulate it as a single object. If you have the tools (Illustrator), you can disassemble it into its constituent objects.
Do you think there is such a way to combine all these elements into one element logo?
Again: If you are talking about combining paths into one object which cannot be "disassembled" in Illustrator, then you can rasterize it (replace it with a raster image, thereby removing the paths). A raster image is one object. It's an object which Illustrator cannot "disassemble" because a raster image is not a collection of individual objects which Illustrator can individually "understand"; it's just a list of color values (pixels) which Illustrator cannot edit. But that obviates the advantages and purposes of the original artwork having been created as vector-based artwork in the first place. And even Illustrator can still wreck it (re-rasterize it; disproportionally scale it, etc.) if the recipient doesn't know what he's doing.
If you're talking about delivering it to someone to use in some other program, there may be other delivery options which allow it to be used as a whole, but not disassembled by that program.
See how much guessing you are requiring from anyone interested in helping you? Stop being secretive. Explain exactly and in detail what you've got and what you intend to do with it.
JET
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