I have an unusual problem with Freeway rendering pages that contain Adobe Illustrator items (.ai) that use drop shadow effects (applied to the item in Illustrator, not Freeway).
Occasionally when I preview the site it will appear as per the example on the right (example.jpg), where the items with transparency effects (drop shadows) render incorrectly - the main logo and menu items. It should be as per the example on the left.
Re-applying the master page corrects this, but that’s a pain when I’ve amended the page quite substantially (page height for example) as I loose those changes.
I’m using Adobe Illustrator CS4, saving the files as .ai’s.
Anyone else seen this before? I guess I could apply the drop shadow’s using Freeway instead, but interested in why this happens sometimes.
You also have to go into the Freeway Pro item inspector and set the item’s
file type to png. it seems to be jpg by default. So even if you import it
into Freeway as a png it won’t stay that way.
David
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Neil email@hidden wrote:
Hi Dave,
Yes, I’ve set all illustrator items to PNG millions to allow the
transparency to show, so I’m unsure as to why the problem is so
intermittent.
Sorry I didn’t explain myself fully - the file is saved as a native illustrator ai file from illustrator, imported into freeway as an ai file, and set in the inspector as a PNG with millions of colours.
My problem lies with the inconsistency of the issue - I know I’m doing it correct but for some reason when I publish the page, it just comes out like the example when it feels like it, despite these settings being in place. Other times (in fact 90% of the time) it comes out fine, as it should.