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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: GreenKnight37 on January 29, 2006, 03:27:24 pm
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Well I was working on my Zero vectorization for several hours yesterday, and I was just a few parts away from completing it. Come this morning, I'm getting an error message.
"Can't open the illustration. The illustration contains an illegal or misplaced operator.
Offending Operator: "U"
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Now thankfully, my file will still open with 90% of the content there. But one of my main vector layers is all gone. I can retrace it and put the detail back, but I'd rather fix the problem if possible. I can't find any specific info on the web for this particular error, so maybe someone here can give me some advice?
Oh, and I did backup the file, but its got the same corruption issue. I'm 100% certain it was the backup process of saving it to a USB disk that ruined my vector. Even the Adobe help forums were talking about how saving backups sometimes ruin vectors....how stupid is that?
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Woo!
After reading about errors in Illustrator 10, I was able to use an older method to generate a text-file of the graphics. Then I was able to make a damn lucky guess about what to remove in an encrypted text file, and its all fixed!
So I've got it working again! Now I don't have to stress about having a broken file that I put many hours of work into!