I got the Illustrator thing worked out…
Well… kinda.
When I brought home another copy of my file and tried to open it yesterday, I got really pissed. I knew there was a problem with working between the school computer, and mine.
That’s no so much the problem as the two options I was given. I searched more and more and worked at it and figured out there was a problem with the mesh… what, I dunno. Don’t care, really. I just wanted to fix that or my file.
Fixing the problem by fixing Illustrator is not an option. I tired fixing it so there were no incompatiblites, but that didn’t work. After 4 hours of working at this I gave up.
This meant that I either had to finish working on it at school and only at school, which meant that despite the fact that I was ahead, I would probably fall far behind. Then who knows, I could take it to kinko’s and have the same problem there. Wouldn’t that suck?
My Other option was to cut my losses and keep working on the outdated file I had at home, which meant I would lose about 5 hours of VERY VERY good work. To me, re-doing it wasn’t the bad idea, it’s the thought that I wouldn’t be able to do the same job I did at school.
Of course I wouldn’t choose either of those options. That’s just silly because it means I lose something either way.
So what on EARTH did I do? Welllll…..
I opened up the Illustrator file in a text editor, learned how it is put together, and proceeded to delete the damaged sections (any layer with mesh on it) of the file only looking at lines of code.
Go ahead, see if you can make sense of it.
After that, I was able to open the file, minus the layers with mesh, and I just copied and pasted everything else into the previously-outdated-now-up-to-date file. After all of that, I have a file that works on my computer that is only missing one layer from my school file and any changed I made to the face at school. Man, that rocks!
Clearly, I was the winner.
The moral of this story: I’m a nerd. When it comes to computer, I don’t settle for second.