Though on the other hand, i never ever use Gradients in Illustrator so I'm not at all familiar with the methods of employing them in my work. From the error message, i obviously thought it had something to do with the Gradient i added but it just doesn't seem to make sense. So i can't open up my drawing into my Illustrator for the life of me. I'm not too worried because i was nearly finished but i would like to go in and add a few tweaked changes, maybe play around with my background a bit more. It can be enlarged and edited in size or DPI. The drawing even imports to photoshop as a 'Placed' item onto the canvas. All were separable and for the most part, editable because of the user interface. AI file into Flash just for the heck of it to see if it would work and even Flash imported it properly, opening it in vector form with all of it's layers and shadows, and Gradient features. All the vectors were fine and in place, including the 'Unnamed Gradient' shadow i had worked into the Illustration. I could zoom in and see everything exactly as it had been in Illustrator. I became worried so i tried opening it up into Apples 'Preview' program. The illustration contains an incomplete or garbled object description.ДЎ (Unnamed gradient 1) 0 0 0 1 1.7392 0 0 0.8162

AI file up and it gave me the following message: I wasn't worried because i save at least every minute or so. who really knows why a computer program does what it sometimes does? Well i went to save my progress with the Command+S Option and accidentally hit Q after. I'm working on a drawing for a client with frequent (very frequent) saves because in the past my illustrator has been prone to glitches or fits for whatever reason. I operate Adobe Illustrator CS1 on OSX 10.39, etc - mac mini.

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