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Part I Illustrator Basics FIGURE 6.18 A path being reshaped using the Reshape tool Cleaning up a path Clean Up removes three unwanted elements from Illustrator documents: stray points, unpainted objects, and empty text paths. Clean Up works on the entire document, regardless of what is selected. You apply this command by choosing Object ➪ Path ➪ Clean Up. The Clean Up dialog box is shown in Figure 6.19. NOTE Clean Up doesn’t work on locked or hidden paths, paths turned into guides, or paths on locked or hidden layers. These are the Delete options in the Clean Up dialog box: Stray Points: Selects and deletes any. | Part I Illustrator Basics FIGURE 6.18 A path being reshaped using the Reshape tool Cleaning up a path Clean Up removes three unwanted elements from Illustrator documents stray points unpainted objects and empty text paths. Clean Up works on the entire document regardless of what is selected. You apply this command by choosing Object C Path C Clean Up. The Clean Up dialog box is shown in Figure 6.19. Clean Up doesn t work on locked or hidden paths paths turned into guides or paths on locked or hidden layers. These are the Delete options in the Clean Up dialog box Stray Points Selects and deletes any little points flying around. These points can cause all sorts of trouble as a point can have paint attributes but can t print. This option actually deletes the points. Select All Stray Points under the Select menu selects the points but you have to J press Backspace or Delete Io delete them. 200 Learning How to Select and Edit 6 Unpainted Objects Eliminates any paths that are filled and stroked with None and that aren t masks masks always have fills and strokes of None Empty Text Paths Finds any text paths with no characters and then deletes them FIGURE 6.19 Use the Clean Up dialog box to specify what elements you want to clean up. Empty Text Paths isn t the same as the old Revert Text Paths from previous Illustrator versions which changed empty text paths back into standard paths. For more on text paths see Chapter 9. If you aren t sure whether your document contains these three items run Clean Up. If none of these items are found a message box as shown in Figure 6.20 appears and tells you so. FIGURE 6.20 This message tells you that there was nothing to clean up in your document. 201 Part I Illustrator Basics Offsetting a path Offset Path which you access by choosing Object C Path C Offset Path draws a new path around the outside or inside of an existing path. The distance from the existing path is the distance that you specify in the Offset Path dialog box which is .
