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Photoshop, Illustrator, aliasing, and YOU

DelzhandDelzhand Registered User, Transition Team regular
edited March 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
Our designers generally do website designs in Illustrator, then export to Photoshop so us developers can build them. However, it's difficult sometimes for us to get pixel perfect measurements, because elements like blocks get antialiased. I know there's an option to turn off antialiasing for exports, but that causes the text to look pretty terrible. Does anyone know a way to maintain antialiasing for text while keeping the sharp, clear edges of other elements?

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  • RyeRye Registered User regular
    You can always select all (ctrl+a) and go to Object -> Rasterize. This is a destructive change, so don't save the file afterwards (it will no longer be "editable" in the way you want it)

    Then you can save it all out as a jpeg or as a layered file for PSD.

  • fruityth1ngfruityth1ng Registered User new member
    For anyone else stumbling on this:
    Under effects, there are "live" effects, amongst others "rasterize" which you can apply (on 72 ppi) on a per-object basis.
    If your designers want, they can include it in the "standard" object, by unchecking "new objects use standard appearance" under the options flyout of the appearance panel.

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