Outlining, clipping paths in Illustrator

Hi, I've created a logo in Illustrator consisting of the name in type and then some stars going around the name. I cannot seem to outline or "clip" everything clean enough to place the entire logo onto different colored backgrounds in InDesign. How can I clip it all clean in order to do that? Thanks!

aimsma wrote:
I've created logos in the past, saved them as eps or tiff files, outlined the type, etc., and they always turned out okay and never had the white background behind them.
There is your problem. I would save this as either a .ai file or psd. not eps or tiffs.
I would say the drop shadow is causing the clip to become a white filles object in those two formats but as an ai file, which you do know can be placed in ID or as a psd file with perserving the layers.
I think it is the drop shadow. You either expport as I suggest ai or psd or you expamd the drop shadow effect.
Your work flow is outdated but an easy one to update.

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