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What to Do About Tiled Pattern Artifacts in Adobe Illustrator

December 19, 2013 by admin

Sometimes when zooming-into or out-of your artwork in Illustrator, thin lines appear in parts of your design which contain tiled pattern swatches.

They can be straight-across or angled, depending upon whether you’ve rotated the fill. Have a look at the first image below to see what these lines look like (in this case the fill had been rotated 45-degrees).

Most of the time, these lines are artifacts resulting from how illustrator previews your file … meaning they’re not in your prints or exported artwork.

Occasionally these lines appear in exported rasterized artwork. Here’s what to do when that happens.

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When exporting (File > Export), set your Anti-Aliasing Option to “Art Optimized” (not “Type Optimized”).
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Voila … Perfect rasterized file with no tiling artifacts.

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