From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency

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Copying graphics from Illustrator

Copying graphics from Illustrator

Remember that the flattening process always has to happen whenever Illustrator senses that you're taking artwork that is currently with live transparency and sending it someplace that does not understand that transparency. For example, when I'm sending artwork to a printer that uses postscript, when I'm saving an EPS file, or when I'm copying and pasting content from Illustrator into another application that does not understand transparency. So for example, if I'm taking some artwork from Illustrator and I copy it and I want to paste it into another program and that program does not understand what transparency is, what actually gets pasted into that program? So the answer is that at this point Illustrator is kind of faced with two potential ways to address that problem. It can either make sure that the appearance of my artwork is going to be pure and the same. As we discussed in the past that's the rule number two of flattening. It's made sure that when my file actually is flattened,…

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