: Adobe Illustrator: Inexplicable Transparency I want to work on an SVG-File I downloaded from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Risk_board.svg I opened it in Illustrator and removed everything

@Debbie163

Can you help me remove this effect?


To fix this in 2 minutes, you can select all the lines, and go in the menu "object" and then "flatten transparency".

Then you can fill these paths with a new color at 100% and it should work. Everything will still be in vector. And you won't need to verify each line's opacity; it's a very fast way to get rid of the issue.

What you see on the image attached is the result. Make sure to have the box "preserve alpha transparency" unchecked! Otherwise it will keep the transparency!



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This is a quick way to fix all the transparency issues for the paths and it can also help if the vector uses a brush stroke (as found in the brush library) and to flatten their transparency effect.

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@Caterina889

Use the Direct Selection Tool (the white arrow) to select a path, then just look at the Appearance Panel.

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