Graphic Styles, Multiple Strokes

I make a graphic style with more than one stroke. I choose the brush tool. I click the graphic style. I draw a line. only one of the strokes is applied to the path. I have to select the path again, and then click the graphic style for it to apply.
"New art has basic appearance" is unchecked.
It's time consuming and frustrating. And it takes the punch out of one of the better additions to the program.

Well to be honest this is going to sound sarcastic but it is not intended. You make three lines the way you want it to apply to new shapes. the you select and drg it ot he brush panel and eselct to make it an pattern brush you have to read the help files in order to understand how to make a pattern brush.
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Graphic Style that adds stroke without changing fill?

I'd like to assign a graphic style that adds to the existing style. For example, I need to add the same stroke to various objects that have different fills. Can I do that with a Graphic Style? I know I can group the object and add the style to the group, but this complicates the structure of the file. I would rather the stroke was just added to the object itself. I looked at "additive styles", but don't think they are what I'm looking for.
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Thanks, Jean-Claude. You just made my job much easier. I used to think I knew Illustrator, until I met some of the people on this forum.

Fill & Stroke applied when changing graphic style to none

Since you set new rectangles now default to having no stroke and no fill. I think it would be good to also do the same to setting the graphic style to none because it is still applying a white fill & black stroke.
Maybe its something you just didn't notice when making the update, so I thought I would let you know.
Thanks,
Sean

Vicky,
You could make the arrowhead into a Scatter/Pattern Brush, in the following way:
1) Create the arrowhead,
2) In the Brushes palette/panel flyout tick New Brush,
3a1) Tick Scatter Brush,
3a2) Set the Spacing (as the total length of arrowhead and gap relative to the length of the arrowhead, 200% for gap = length).
3b1) Tick Pattern Brush,
3b2) Set the Spacing (relative to the length of the arrowhead, 100% for gap = length).
Scatter Brush will give you undistorted arrowheads pointing with a slight inaccuracy.
Pattern Brush will give you bent arrowheads following the path accurately.

Is it possible to set graphical style to multiple different images that are links?

I have many thumnail images that link to different pages and each thumbnail image is a different picture so it appears as though I will need to create 20+ styles because they are 20 different images?
Basicly I just want to set the roll over state to border color, down state to differnt color border, etc.
but each style tells the border to be applied to that particular image state. So is there a way to make a global style that can be applied to all of these thumbnails?
The only work around is putting a transparent PNG on top and applying the rollover, etc states then placing the clear PNG on top each of my thumbnails.
There must be a better way to do this in Muse because I can do it using real CSS. I hope this makes sense.
Bonus question:
Each of my thumnails has an HTML text title below it. Is there a way to have both image and text change on rollover? I can only apply a style to each, not as a unit.
thanks!
Lou

For your first question, the answer is that you cant store each states in a single Graphic Style.
You need to create 4 styles (for example image_nav, image_nav_hover, image_nav_down, image_nav_active) and then apply it to each image.
I suggest you to use a menu widget to create this kind of navigation, so you can choose the "edit togheter" option that allows you to reflect the cahanges you made to a single menu item to each other.
For you second question, I suggest you again to use a navigation widget.
1. Select you menu widget and click on the little blue circle on the top right corner.
2. Select the "Show left icon" option to enable a icon for each menu item.
3. Set Part positioning to vertical (centered or left aligned as you need) to put the text below the image.
4. Style the image and the text as you like. You can use the 4 graphic styles I told you before to style the image.
5. When you roll over or click a menu item, both image and text will change state.

Do not duplicate the graphic style when you copy and paste a feature

I rely heavily on the use of graphic styles. However, when I copy and paste a feature that has a graphic style assigned to it, a duplicate of the graphic style is created. I sometimes end up with a large number of these duplicate graphic styles that I have to trash. This does not happen with the selection tool+alt shortcut for copying. However, I can't use this shortcut when I want to paste in front or paste in back, which is the case at least half the time.

Only advice I can offer is Option Left cursor, then right cursor, to make an exact copy in same position.
This will give you a clone as the action does form the previosu poster, but unfortunately no oslution for when you want to target layers.
If anyone else has any input on this here is how to reproduc:
New document, create a graphic style (eg: fill yellow, stroke none) and save
Close the document
Open the document
copy and paste the element with the graphic style, and with every paste multiplies faster than a tribble on Star Trek
I played with changing the clipboard options, no luck. Exists on CS4 Mac, CS5 Mac & PC, might go back as far as graphic styles do.

Applying multiple strokes with JS

Does anybody have any idea, how to apply multiple strokes to a path with JavaScript? Assigning strokes width, caps, position in stack (my particular concern)? All i can do at the moment is to apply a single stroke. Thanks in advance!

I'm writing a script that would generate random stroke appearences on the fly, so using premade graphic styles does not work for me. Your samples work for a single stroke and so far i can't figure out how to apply several of them to the same path. Every next setting overwrites the previos. Can't get, say, two storkes of different width and color applied to the same path.
yourpath.zOrder (ZOrderMethod.SENDTOBACK); works in the layers stack for moving layers up and down, and i would like to move strokes in appearance tab the same way. Can't figure out how to make it either. Thank you anyway, Carlos!

Can I make a "recolor artwork" into a graphic style?

I may be over-thinking this:
Let's say I have a logo that is made with one spot color, plus a gradient of that spot color and white. I want to quickly change the logo from one spot color to another. I can't make the new colors into a Graphic Style, since the logo has multiple fills. I can't just click on another spot color in the Swatches panel, because it fills all the shapes with 100% of that color.
Is there a one-click solution for this? See example if my writing doesn't make sense

I would defer to Wade's knowledge of typos.
If your spot only shows up in your logo, you can replace the swatch with the new spot swatch. Pick it as usual out of your library and then option drag the new swatch onto the old swatch. (you could also temporarily move to a new document to do it if you don't want to replace all instances of your old color, but at that point, live color seems more efficient...)

Copy/Paste duplicates graphic styles

Scenario: Start with a named graphic style of say 2 pt black stroke/no fill called '2.0 pt'. Create an object using said style, copy and paste it, every time I do this I get '2.0 pt 1', '2.0 pt 2', '2.0 pt 3' etc. insanely populating my graphic styles panel. Anybody else experience this behaviour or is it just my set up and something I have to troubleshoot?
This is with CS6 (16.0.4) running on Mac OS X.6.8
Any help, much appreciated
Les

Yeah, sorry about that, tried to edit my post to reflect that I was in the wrong forum but the forum software said I didn't have permission to edit my own post! weird. And yes I'm talking about Illustrator.
Les

Managing graphic styles through external styles?

is there a way to consolidate graphic styles across multiple files? I have enough files across which I need to match colours and styles that it would be really nice to have something like an external css - a central place from which i could control the styles, which would be inherited by their instantiation...
anything?

Graphic Styles can be saved externally, but not linked. One simple alternative would be to create a new startup document or Document profile replacing the default styles with your custom styles. Of course this would only impact new documents.
For details on finding where either the startup or document profiles reside check out Claudia McCue's blog post - http://www.claudiamccue.com/2008/12/setting-illustrator-defaults/
Also, submit this as a feature request, your not alone in wishing this could be a feature shared amongst a group of Illustrator users - https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Tom

Can "Graphic Styles" be shared/synced across organization

Can Graphic Styles (or any other cloud settings) be shared across an entire
enterprise domain (among multiple users)?
Thank you for your reply.

Hi Gregory,
You are now able to save layer styles, graphics, and text styles into Libraries that can be shared with multiple CC subscribers. See the following for more info:
Creative Cloud Help | Creative Cloud Libraries
Creative Cloud Help | Collaborate on folders and libraries
Hope this helps.
--Elba

CS3 Graphic styles frustration

Graphic styles in CS3;
I've defined several graphic styles and saved them in a library. Once imported into a new document or make a template doc with style already there.
Drawing lines in a layer: clicking the graphic style i want and draw a line, so far so good. Copy and paste that line ...
gives me a NEW graphic style-1 which happens to be the same as the graphic style in which the line was drawn???? Why???
By clicking in the Appearance menu on New art has basic appearance and doing the same as above won't give a new style-1 but....
Now the lines I draw, copy or paste has no graphic style at all?????
What I want is to draw ,copy and paste lines with a specific graphic style and illustrator to get hold of the style!
What am i doing wrong?

This bug or what ever it is did not seem to happen on Graphic Styles that had more attributes than one fill & one stroke. So when I made a Graphic Style & I only needed a stroke with no fill I would just add another empty fill so I would end up with a stroke & 2 empty fills. I do not know why but this problem did not seem to happen on any of these more complicated Styles. The problem did happen one time with a complex Style but I just recreated it & it has not happen since.
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Graphic styles that use current fill color instead of stomping them?

Sorry if this is a really stupid, newbie question; I am a stupid newbie.
If I make a graphic style/appearance, it stores the colors of the fill and stroke and will then stamp that down on whatever else I apply it to (obviously). e.g. if I make a graphic style of a pale yellow fill and a bright orange dropshadow screen to make a glowing neon kind of look, and then drop that style onto a bright blue star, it will make the star pale yellow.
Is there a way to do a graphic style that _modifies_ the existing appearance instead of stomping it - e.g. dropping that graphic style on my blue star would make a pale blue fill with a bright green dropshadow screen.
e.g. A graphic style that said "make the new fill 110% value, 85% saturation, same hue as the existing fill color, add a 25 pt dropshadow that has the color of 90% value, 110% saturation, -3 hue of the existing fill color." And then that style dropped on a yellow star and a blue star would result in a glowing neon yellow star and a glowing neon blue star.
The reason I ask: I have a bunch of geometric shapes of various shades of red, orange, yellow and brown, and would like to see what they would all look like with dropshadows of dark, very desaturated complementary colors (the orange shape gets a dark blue/gray dropshadow, the yellow shape gets a dark purple/gray dropshadow, etc.). Do I have to go in and modify each appearance by hand, or is there some way I can automate that?
Thanks, and apologies if this is a really obvious question.
Ken

You won't get as much control as you describe (specific HSV values), but try putting a negative value in the Drop Shadow dialog's Darkness field.
To create a Graphic Style that can apply an Effect without disturbing the existing fill/stroke of the object(s), first group the object(s), then apply the Effect (Drop Shadow, etc.) to the Group, and then drag the Group to the Graphic Styles palette.

Graphic styles + pattern creator

I just finished a series of characters, all heavily styled using handmade textures which I applied via Illustrator's graphic styles. The goal was to create pattern motifs using the characters, but Illustrator won't allow patterns to be created using artwork that's already filled with other patterns. I initially thought I could expand the fills, but that isn't working either. Am I missing something?

You need to expand them and after that also get rid of clipping masks.
That's a lot trickier. If there are no strokes inside the patterns, you can try the pathfinder Crop

Graphic styles not displaying

I have Graphic styles in the panel such as the Additive ones that have little red lines through the lower right corner, and when I apply them to images it make the artwork it was applied to disappear. What is going on with these?
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1. I guess what I am confused by, is why are these even here (blank styles) if you can simply define your own style from scratch? Do these serve some other purpose?
2. When you define a new style, which attributes from the selected artwork does it take on? It seems to take the color, what about stroke, texture, etc? Is there a way to choose which attributes to select for the style and which ones you do not want it to take on?
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Illustrator CS6 and Graphic Styles (Freezing)

Hi everyone, I'm on a Mac and have Illustrator CS6. Whenever I try to open up Graphic Styles, it freezes.
I deleted preferences and even did the disk permissions repair, then restarted. Nothing. I tried to create multiple types of documents too (print, web, etc), but whenever I try to open styles after creating that document, it freezes.
These are the vanilla default graphic styles, mind you.
It might freeze for other tools, but I'm not sure, haven't gotten that far in the investigation. Would anyone happen to have any ideas? :/ Thanks!!

Just got this issue (yet again). I tried something I use to fix certain Bridge glitches - unmount any disk called USERS. I don't know why, but my Adobe programs don't like disks with this name. Then, when you click on graphic styles, give it like, 30sec - 2min to load. You can even just browse the interwebs. The AI icon on your toolbar will bounce when it's loaded up and ready to use again. Also, make sure the Graphic Styles aren't displayed when you close the file, or it can be hell to re-open it at all. Don't know why, but I had this same problem with CS5.
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