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Filling A Table In Adobe Illustrator
Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud
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I made a table in In Design, filled it with data, and brought it into illustrator.
I can't seem to fill individual cells with different colors and I'm not sure how to fix it.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I made a table in In Design, filled it with data, and brought it into illustrator.
I can't seem to fill individual cells with different colors and I'm not sure how to fix it.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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You could use Live Paint, depending on what Illustrator is doing to the table. Or fill the cells with a colour in InDesign before bringing it over, so you have coloured shapes to change in Illustrator.
But really, why? Why can't you just use InDesign? You can do quite a bit in InDesign when it comes to table styling. It's just not as easy as say, Word.
Fired it up to test and see. If you're dealing with a plain old table in InDesign, then you copy and paste into Illustrator, it will just turn the table outlines into paths. To colour the cells:
1) Move all your data/text layers to a different layer so it's easier to select only your lines (paths)
2) Select all of the lines in the table
3) Choose Object>Compound Path>Make
4) Choose the Live Paint tool
5) Select a colour, and click the cell you want to colour in
If you don't want the black lines in your table, you can just set the stroke colour to 'none'.