Illustrator exporting to png problem

Hello,
so I got this unusual problem when exporting to png..
Here are some images:
The artboard:
Link(s):
http://oi60.tinypic.com/oubaeg.jpg
Exporting preview:
Link(s):
http://oi57.tinypic.com/30try9f.jpg
The final image:
Link(s):
http://oi58.tinypic.com/1zyznyp.jpg
Note that the 'Use artboard' option when exporting doesn't solve the problem..
Never happened to me before.. any ideas?
Thanks

Here's what the scene looks like.. no context basically. I just made a rectangle to illustrate the problem.
Strangely, I tried with a different jpeg image which I imported and traced into paths and then exported to png.. and that worked fine..
Here's the initial project to better illustrate the issue. The image kind of repeats itself...
Thanks

Similar Messages

Save error when exporting to PNG in Illustrator using a Macbook with Yosemite

Anybody experience the issue of png being saved with "/" in the beginning of the file name when exporting to png in Illustrator? This only happens when I use my mac not my PC.
Due to the save error my PC cannot identify the files and when the files are linked in Indesign they are not copied when packaging the indesign file.
Any advice on the issue are most appreciated

I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of problem, but the first thing I'd check is the parameter block you're passing the action call. I don't know why it would matter if the dialog appeared or not, unless the export settings block wasn't being filled in with everything it needs?
You might try recording an export you perform manually via the action palette, and then saving it to a file. You can open it up manually and compare it (even if it's a binary block) to what you're doing in code. You might spot something that way.
I don't know what else to suggest though. It's unlikely to be an SDK bug, though it could be a bug in the action-aware part of the exporter.

Illustrator CS4 crops my artwork when exporting to png

Illustrator CS4 crops my artwork when exporting to png (it always crops on the right side). It doesn't happen everytime but often enough to be annoying. Sometimes centering my artwork in the artboard solves the problem but not always. Do you have any idea why it's happening, and what I can do to avoid that problem?
(See the attached png)

@Jacob & Mylenium: I don't have any stroked path in my artwork. I've tried to add a no fill/no stroke rectangle (same size as my artwork and then a bit bigger) but it didn't work.
Your advices gave me an idea though: I've added a filled rectangle slightly bigger than my artwork, centered it and dropped its opacity to 0%, it worked.
I'm glad I know that trick now, because even when my artwork wasn't badly cropped, it was touching the edges of the picture (png). Then I had to open it in Photoshop and increase the canvas size in order to leave some transparent space between the artwork and the edges of the picture. Now I can do that in Illustrator
Thanks a lot for your help !

Illustrator crashes when trying to export to png

My issue is pretty straightforward, I cannot export to PNG unless I trash the Illustrator preferences (located in: user/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS6 Settings/en_US/) BEFORE I start Illustrator. As soon as I close Illustrator, I must delete those preferences again the next time I start up the program or I won't be able to export a file.
- I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion, but I was having the same issues in Lion
- I have uninstalled the whole CS6 Creative Suite and reinstalled (literally deleting every single Adobe file in the Library folder) still the same issue
- It seems to only be PNG files that I can't export to. If I try and make it a JPG it will export (I do commonly need to export with transparency so JPGs won't work for many things I need to export)
I can't think of anything else to do. Thoughts?

VACUBOMB wrote:
I've been having this exact same problem with CS5 on Mountain Lion. Anything that rasterizes the artwork causes it to hang. Export (PNG), Save for Web, Filters like Drop Shadow or Gaussian Blur (even when just checking the preview box).
If I delete the preferences it works fine for one run of the app, then it happens again.
Temporary Fix (kinda lame)
1. Edit the contents of the Preferences File in a text editor and remove everything (0 bytes, blank file).
2. Open the Info box and lock the file.
Your preferences will stop saving, and the issue will go away, but now non of your preferences will save, you'll be reset every time you open the app.
I will continue to diagnose and see if I can narrow down the area of the config that is breaking things.
I would love a solution for this.
Message was edited by: VACUBOMB
This solution is for CS5, do you have a solution for CS6?

Save error when exporting to Png i Illustrator

Anybody experience the issue of png being saved with "/" in the beginning of the file name when exporting to png in Illustrator. This only happens when I use my mac not my PC.
Due to the save error my PC cannot identify the files and when the files are linked in Indesign they are not copied when packaging the indesign file.
Any advice on the issue are most appreciated

Hi,
I am moving your posting to Illustrator Forum from Acrobat.com Forum.
Thank you
Hisami

How to copy and paste the graphics from illustrator to MS word. What I tried is exporting in png with highest resolution and then inserting in to word. This loses a bit of resolution in comparison to direct copy and paste as EMF. But if I do a copy and p

How to copy and paste the graphics from illustrator to MS word. What I tried is exporting in png with highest resolution and then inserting in to word. This loses a bit of resolution in comparison to direct copy and paste as EMF. But if I do a copy and paste, and then take a print of the document, all the graphs and text is printed upside down, flipped back.

Use the Pencil Tool
alex
adrian stock wrote:
> How to copy and paste a single pixel
>
> I want to copy a single pixel and then paste it in the
position of
> another pixel in the same image.
>
> (This is in effect changing the colour of the target
pixel, isn't it.
> But in my case copying an existing pixel seems simpler
than selecting a
> colour from the swatch or using the colour picker.)
>
> What is the most efficient way of doing this?
>
> I tried to select one pixel with the marquee tool. Then
copied it with
> control-C, but then how do I select the target pixel and
paste with
> control-V?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Adrian
>

Exporting to PNG vs "Save for Web" in Illustrator CC

I am creating small logos for a website in Illustrator CC (one is 135px x 50px), and the quality of the output has been a bit sketchy: not blurry or pixelated, but the text is messy and uneven while previewing in Acrobat as part of a larger PDF, and when previewing the logo by itself (I also previewed it in a browser with HTML to get the same unclear image).
The images have been exported to PNG and JPG at 72 PPI.
When I experimented with the "save for web" option (File>Save for Web), voila! It fixed the issue! I noticed in the dialogue box for "Save for Web" that it saved as a PNG-24, an option not available to export (you can only export to PNG)
My question is: is there a difference between "save for web" and exporting that I should know about before I continue to save ALL my images via the "Save for web" option? It seems strange that the best way to save an image (PNG-24) wouldn't be an option under Export (you can only export to PNG). Why can't I export to PNG-24 in Illustrator?
Thanks for any advice.

You can save with different color depth, export, it chooses automatically the higher depth when you choose transparent, and the lower depth when you choose a background color.

Exporting to PNG from Adobe Illustrator cutting off edges

I created a 40px x 40px image in Adobe Illustrator CS4. I saved as an .ai file and then tried to export as a PNG.
Adobe Illustrator automatically crops the background and tightens the export to a rect around all the objects which if fine. In this case, I am not working edge to edge so my image is not quite 40px wide.
But, unfortunately, Illustrator is not exporting the entire image. I end up with an image that is 34px wide. Indeed, the icon I draw starts on the left hand side but the right edge of my object cut off.
Any ideas why this is happening? I can't imagine Illustrator CS4 can't correctly to export to PNG.

Can't necessarily explain the reason for the cutoff without knowing more, but you might be able to solve it by adding a 40 x 40 square with no fill or stroke and including it in the export.

Illustrator crashing with PNG export. Argh.

Newly-installed Illustrator 2014 crashes whenever I try to export to PNG. When I click on use artboard, I get the Rainbow Pinwheel of Death and then it crashes. I tried it with Illustrator CC6 and the same thing happens. Argh. I'm running Mac OSX 10.10. I've searched through the forums and found nothing similar. Anybody have any advice?

jvsiclen,
You could try to reinstall using the full three step way:
Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Illustrator CS6 exports to PNG with unwanted transparencies.

Illustrator CS6 exports to PNG with unwanted transparencies. I've done everything I can think of but some of the shapes in my Ai file with 100% opacity are still showing the layer under them in the PNG export file. What can the issue be?

This is how the Ai file looks and it should export and look the same.
Here is the PNG export. The yellow layers are at 100% opacity but the bottom layer is showing through and changing the color for some reason. Saving as a pdf works fine but I need a PNG.

Adobe Illustrator PDF to DWG Export (multiple PNGs)

Hi,
I've a got a series of PDFs to export to DWG format. I've recorded an action which works fine, but some of the them take ages as it creates 100s of PNGs file which seem to contain nothing.
There doesn't seem to be an option to not export to PNG/JPEG components in the Export DWG dialog box and I don't know either what I'm looking to delete in the PDF to prevent this. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Don't think so. Links in DWG/ DWF files are just custom data fields and can link to any external reference, which can be an URL, but also just a local file, another drawing, a database or whatever. Therfore there's no surefire way to tell whether a link is actually a properly formatted hyperlin and that's why it probably wouldn't make much sense for AI to interpret this data in the first place. However, ACAD et al. can export PDFs, so consider using this functionality and then refining the PDF...
Mylenium

The operation cannot complete because of an unkown error while exporting to png

Adobe Illustrator CS5
Windows 7 64bit
I am getting the following error while trying to export a png
"The operation cannot complete because of an unkown error. [13]"
I tried disabling all startup items, rebooting, copying and pasting to a new document to no avail.
Please help

Here is what I tried and it worked
Save the file as pdf with the "Preserve Illustrator Editing capabilities" checked. Rename the file from .pdf to .ai
New file can now export without any problems.
Wierd. But thanks to everyone who posted

Exporting to PNG, Stroke Weight not Scaling with Export Scale

Hi there
I am having some issues exporting illustrator documents to multiple sizes of PNG.
I am actually scripting this, but the issue seems to be more general - hence the posting here.
If you export a PNG through the web and devices tool:
File->Save for Web & Devices
And you scale the image by 50%, the line weight does not seem to be scaled with the export scale.
In Illustrator->Preferences->General I have Scale Strokes and Effects ticked.
This problem is also apparent when scaling a scripted PNG export through the ExportOptionsPNG24 class.
Is there anything I am missing please - or does anyone know of workarounds?
Thank you

Thanks for looking into it Kurt.
I can't post the illustrator file in question to the forum.
And, you are right, when I aim to make a demo file from scratch I can't reproduce the problem either.
I am having this difficulty on multiple files though, and they are all quite complex.
I will aim to try and make a file that shows the problem.
The files in question may have symbols that were created in much earlier versions of Illustrator.
I'm not sure if that could do it.
The sequence above shows the output as I export via script to successively smaller scales.
This is by setting the horizontalScale and verticalScale in ExportOptionsPNG24.
I see the same results if scaling in Save for Web & Devices.

Batch Export as PNG

Hello, i'm having dreadful trouble exporting a batch of AIs to PNG (using illustrator CS4).
It seemed really obvious to record export>PNG>relevant setting as an action and then run that on the whole folder.
The trouble is that the action, when run as a batch (and only when run as a batch) skips the whole export step. it open the AI fine, runs through the action very quickly, and then fails to write the PNG.
what's more, i also tried this on a colleagues machine and his did exactly the same, so i'm thinking that it's me missing something obvious.
as a workaround i turned the dialogues on, but this kind of defeats the object.
any help would be very greatly appreciated.
cheers
Jez

You might try this
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
Copyright 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated
All Rights Reserved
NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and
distribute this file in accordance with the terms
of the Adobe license agreement accompanying it.
If you have received this file from a source
other than Adobe, then your use, modification,
or distribution of it requires the prior
written permission of Adobe.
ExportDocsAsPNG24.jsx
DESCRIPTION
This sample gets files specified by the user from the
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them
as PDFs in the user desired destination with the same
file name.
// Main Code [Execution of script begins here]
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs
// app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile, pngExportOpts;
// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files you want to convert to PNG', '~' );
// If a valid folder is selected
if ( sourceFolder != null )
    files = new Array();
    fileType = prompt( 'Select type of Illustrator files to you want to process. Eg: *.ai', ' ' );
    // Get all files matching the pattern
    files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType );
    if ( files.length > 0 )
        // Get the destination to save the files
        destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the converted PNG files.', '~' );
        for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
            sourceDoc = app.open(files[i]); // returns the document object
            // Call function getNewName to get the name and file to save the pdf
            targetFile = getNewName();
            // Call function getPNGOptions get the PNGExportOptions for the files
            pngExportOpts = getPNGOptions();
            // Export as PNG
            sourceDoc.exportFile( targetFile, ExportType.PNG24, pngExportOpts );
            sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
        alert( 'Files are saved as PNG in ' + destFolder );
    else
        alert( 'No matching files found' );
getNewName: Function to get the new file name. The primary
name is the same as the source file.
function getNewName()
    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName;
    docName = sourceDoc.name;
    ext = '.png'; // new extension for png file
    newName = "";
    for ( var i = 0 ; docName[i] != "." ; i++ )
        newName += docName[i];
    newName += ext; // full png name of the file
    // Create a file object to save the png
    saveInFile = new File( destFolder + '/' + newName );
    return saveInFile;
getPNGOptions: Function to set the PNG saving options of the
files using the PDFSaveOptions object.
function getPNGOptions()
    // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options
    var pngExportOpts = new ExportOptionsPNG24();
    // Setting PNGExportOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference
    // for a description of these properties.
    // Add more properties here if you like
    pngExportOpts.antiAliasing = true;
    pngExportOpts.artBoardClipping = false;
    //pngExportOpts.horizontalScale = 100.0;
    //pngExportOpts.matte = true;
    //pngExportOpts.matteColor = 0, 0, 0;
    pngExportOpts.saveAsHTML = false;
    pngExportOpts.transparency = true;
    //pngExportOpts.verticalScale = 100.0;
    return pngExportOpts;
Copy into a text editor and save as a .jsx file and place in the presets>scripts folder.

Color differentiation when exporting to PNG

Hello!
This is just driving me crazy and I'm dying to find a solution. Whenever I export my artboards to the PNG format, I receive a slight change in the bitmap colorization.
In Illustrator, my colors are perfect, but when exporting to PNG, the end result shows an increase in color vibrance - making a light blue (for example) show as slightly more turquoise/sharper light blue.
Example:
(This is a screenshot capture. Illustrator artboard is on the left hand side, the exported PNG example is on the right hand side.)
So, my question is if I am doing something wrong with my color settings?
My settings have been set in my Adobe Bridge to:
Europe General Purpose 3
RGB Space: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
CMYK Space: Coated FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2:2004)
PS: I constantly switch between creating graphics that are used for the web and other on-screen web applications (such as GUI's) and printed booklets and posters, etc. I've always had immense trouble finding a perfect working space with web and printed material. If anyone has an advice for color settings or some kind of best-practice working environment to create consistent color, I would be very appreciative.
Thank you!

Chrome is not a color managed browser. From the several browsers I have installed on my pc only Firefox has color management capabilities that can match the color with the Adobe color managed programs.
You have to understand that there are color and non-color managed programs. Non-color managed programs always display the colors with the color space of your monitor. Take for example a color recorded in the file say, pure red R=255, G=0, B=0. The non-color managed program will send to your video card the same number and your monitor will display the most saturated red it is physically capable of. When a color managed program reads this value, first it checks the color space of the document, which can be defined with a color profile, a soft proofing color space, or when there is no color profile with the color settings set for the working space. Then it checks the color space of your monitor which is defined in your system and translates the values from the color space of the document to the color space of your monitor which can result in a different value other than 255, 0, 0 sent to your video card. In other words color management is simulating on your monitor a color space different than your monitor's color space. The result from this is different color displayed by color managed and non-color managed programs when reading the same file.
You can't make non-color managed programs to match a color managed programs, but you can make the color managed program match the non - color managed programs on your monitor by setting you document color space to the color space of your monitor. To do that from the Edit menu, choose Assign Profile and select the color profile of your monitor. This will match the color in Illustrator to the color displayed by the non-color managed programs. This in effect turns the color management off because the color management is translating between the same color spaces which results in zero difference.
However have in mind that this is not a very professional way of working with color and it only ensures a color consistency between color managed and non-color managed programs on your current monitor. What color you are actually creating that others will see or the color that will print is unpredictable with this setup.

Illustrator exporting to png problem

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for