: How can I get the clipping paths to be objects in Adobe Illustrator? I'm converting a vector drawing from Bohemian Sketch to Adobe Illustrator so that I can export eps and svg, etc. When

@Murray976

It really depends upon the artwork.

If the art is comprised of a bunch of raster images with clipping masks you are sort of stuck. You can't crop, cut, or clip raster images within Illustrator - you can only mask them.

If the art is all vector and merely contains clipping masks.....

In some cases, Object > Flatten Transparency will quickly "bake in" clipping masks. Beyond that, you may need to select individual masks and use Object > Expand followed by Pathfinder > Crop (the panel, not the effect menu).

This is generalizing, without seeing the file construction or layers panel expanded it's difficult to be more precise.

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