: Converting a colored vector eps to coloring page single line art I am very new to illustrator (or design at least).. I am not sure if there is an easy way to do this. I have several colored

@Si6392903

A little too late but here is an option.

The point is not to re-asign a stroke and a fill, because vector techniques has diferent ways to prepare an ilustration.

The best option is to first rely on what the ilustrator has already assigned as the strokes.

Thoose can be "real" strokes on ilustrator, can be fill objects without any stroke or a combination of the two.

Aditionally you can have objects that should have no stroke at all, as you already noticed.

So I would:


Desaturate the image.
Fill in white only the objects that become dark gray.
Try to augment the contrast to only black and white.
I am not sure if the curves can be adjusted inside Ilustrator. But one option is to export it into a Grayscale Bitmap file, at 1200 ppi and play with the curves and levels in Photoshop. When you are done you can convert the image to Monichromatic 1 bit image, that will work well, it would be hard to tell the diference to a vector image when printed.


As you can see there are only a few objects to re-fill in ilustrator.

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@Murray976

You can select individual lines and just delete them. Use direct selection tool, select paths and anchors (extra lines and points) and press backspace to delete them. If you select an anchor point first and double tap the backspace key it will delete the line and anchor points quickly.

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@Ann6370331

nice question and tricky solution


First you have to select all your artwork.
in the swatch panel click the more option icon





select Add Used Color - This option will add all the selected color used in your artwork ti the swatch panel as a Global Color.
Now double click on every color change it to white first then uncheck the global color check box the let you change another color. make sure to not uncheck the global check box before changing the color.





do so for every color in your artwork.


PS. this method will be valid for all fills that you have and make sure that you don't have strokes converted to path. the second point is you have to keep the black only.

after that you may want to tweak the artwork and you may need to add or remove black strokes from your artwork.

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