Heh I need some tutorials on Illustrator that stickly point out how to use the pen tool.. I was figuring it was like photoshop but my problem comes with that it fills in color when you ancor a point resulting in me not being able to see the image I'm tracing. I learned how to fade that color out before but I forgot. So any help would be great highly appreciated.

when you are using the pen tool make sure your "fill" has a little x through it...and that your stroke has a color. I think that should solve your initial problem with it, if I understand you correctly.

Ok so now I'm getting an error.. it says file exceeds an implementation limit... what in the world is that?

I sweat AI is equivalent to the devil... it is so darn evil makes me want to break the screen

Ok so now I'm getting an error.. it says file exceeds an implementation limit... what in the world is that?

I sweat AI is equivalent to the devil... it is so darn evil makes me want to break the screen

Honestly I have never come across that error before ED, maybe ANdrew would know.

Do you have a file with lots and lots of anchor points?

Honestly I have never come across that error before ED, maybe ANdrew would know.

Do you have a file with lots and lots of anchor points?

No I didn't use too many so I don't know what's the deal.

I don't know what you are doing (wrong) either.

I have never seen that error before. I have got lots of other ones; like "not enough memory to draw preview" when I have 2Gb of ram.

I would try saving the document and then restarting Illustrator.

If it still persists with the same document then try a new one, if the problem is still there try deleting the preference file or you could always try the Adobe Illustrator Knowledge base found at www.adobe.com (It's free and you don't have to register)

What Version of Illustrator are you using?

10

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Gah just tried opening it in AI CS and it gave me the same error so I'm just going to redo the image and hope that I don't get the same problem.

Ed: Before starting over, have you tried copying the contents into a new file and saving it? It could be some wierd problem with the file itself.

I'd try what EraserX suggests. Sometimes specific Illustrator files get messed up badly for seemingly no reason at all. I've never seen that error though.

Well the problem lies with I can't open the original document.. So what would I do then?

hmm, I have no idea then. Can you open and rasterize it in PS?

yeah I can do that... I'll try that way and see what happens.

You could try saving it as a pdf and then opening it back up in illustrator, try it with preserve illustrator editing turned on and off.

At least with the PDF it's still editable.

You can also try the clean up path feature (under object->path)