How to design a clipart: Adobe Illustrator

How to design a clipart: Adobe Illustrator

To design a new clipart that is inkXE-compatible using Adobe Illustrator, 

1. Open Illustrator.

2. Create a new file of 200X200px.

                

3. Start designing your vector art. 
  • If you have any stroke in your design, convert the strokes into fill color. 
    Select the shape that has the stroke, and go to Object >> Path >> Outline Strokes
    

  •  If you have any text in your design, convert it into path. To do this, follow the below 2 steps.

    a) Select the text and go to Type >> Create Outlines  ( Shortcuts: Win: CTRL+SHIFT+O     OSX: CMD+SHIFT+O )
    b) Then select the outline and go to Object >> Compound path >> Make   ( Shortcuts: Win: CTRL+SHIFT+O     OSX: CMD+SHIFT+O )

            

4. Once your design is complete, go to the Layers panel. Make sure:
  • No group exists among layers, If they do, ungroup them (Shift+Ctrl+G)
  • Number of layers should be limited to number of colors
   Select layers of the same color. To do that, first select a layer and go to Select >> Same >> Fill Color

      

5. All color layers with same color will get selected, Now, merge them. To do that, go to Object >> Compound >> Make (Ctrl+8)

6. Repeat the same steps for all the layer with a same color. In case you see a path in the Layers Table, convert them to compound path (Ctrl+8).
  • Make sure there are no groups, path layer, text layer, stroke
7. Save the file as '.svg'. 
  • Make sure the CSS properties are set to 'presentation attributes'


You have designed inkXE-comptaible clipart in Adobe Illustrator.

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