why isnt the photo bucket easy to use

[chris_le...@adobeforums.com]

i’m haveing a huge irritation useing illustrator cs4 live paint bucket because i can use everything else apart from the paint bucket which should be the easyiest tool to use sometimes it works with the white arrow sometimes it doesnt i sometimes get this below message

“the selection contains objects that cannot be converted. live paint groups can only contain paths and compound paths. clipping paths are not allowed”

the lines which i have drawn are connected which i believe have to be in order to use the paint bucket and i have no clipping paths so i am am baffled, i presume clipping paths mean cropped art?

presume it is because the line is set to 0.01 it seems the live paint bucket wont notice thin lines, but i tried makeing the line thicker so i could use the paint bucket and it still doesnt work

chris

[Myle...@adobeforums.com]

Are you sure all your paths are "clean" and properly aligned? Could well be that you have overlapping vertices or a gap somewhere that is too small too notice. Usually happens with imported stuff from otehr sources or text, so I'd double-check. Sometimes a simple ungroup operation can fix some of these errors as well. In that case the tool simply will detect the incorrect object bounding box and refuse to draw on it. Making the hierarchy less deep should help.

Mylenium

[chris_le...@adobeforums.com]

mylenium

this is how i use the paint bucket because its the only way i can use it, is it wrong? i use the black arrow to highlight the page then i press the first then third pathfinder symbol then when i click merge or make live paint group some of the paths which i've drawn mess up or delete in order to make a live paint group which is a problem, how do i fix this? then when i press gap detection it singles out all the paths but leaves me with black spots on the paths so what is the best way to solve this and use the paintbucket properly and fill shapes with paint? i will need to know how to fill singular shapes thanks

chris

[chris_le...@adobeforums.com]

mylenium

it would be so easy if i could set the paint bucket to fill to the shape to the nearest coloured colour