sorry if this has been asked before.....
Illustrator CS3
I have a file from a client that has tons of large bitmaps and objects
that are placed inside a
clipping mask. Probably 80% of most of the objects are outside the
clipping mask and are not used.
What I need to do is to create a bitmap of everything in the clipping
mask, but when I try to
rasterize, it tells me the object is too big at the current resolution.
The reason the object is too
big is because it's trying to rasterize all the extraneous stuff that's
outside the clipping mask
that I don't care about, and would only be white anyway. Essentially, the
image I'm trying to create
is about 3x12 inches, where the whole area of the objects in the clipping
mask are about 10x12. I
don't need that whole area, just the stuff that actually showing in the
mask.
Is there any way I can tell Illustrator to ignore all the stuff hanging
over the edges of the mask
and just work on the stuff that's showing? I could swear I had found a way
to do this before but
have since forgotten how.
Any help appreciated.
Still confused.....
