Help with a dashed stroke

[Danny_Finch@adobeforums.com]

How do I retain dashes when expanding a dashed stroke? When I choose Expand Appearances, Expand Stroke and Fill, or Outline Stroke, the dashed strokes revert back to solid lines.

I'm using AI10 in Win2000 sp4.

Thanks!

-Danny

[BobHill@adobeforums.com]

Danny,

Try expanding just the fill, not the stroke.

Bob

[Kurt_Gold@adobeforums.com]

Danny,

in case you want to convert the dashed line into single filled objects take the old Flatten transparancy trick. Choose 100 % Vector and enable the checkbox of the first option (something like "convert strokes to fills").

Kurt Gold

[Danny_Finch@adobeforums.com]

I LOVE THIS USER FORUM!

Kurt - thanks so much. That worked like a charm. You just saved me about an hour's worth of work!

-Danny