Trace tool-->Path Overlap?

[webhak webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Can anyone tell me what the heck the Path Overlap option controls in the Trace tool dialog box? I'm not seeing a difference when I change the settings from None to Loose to Tighter...either that or I'm experimenting with the wrong object to trace.

I can't find anything in Help or on Macromedia's site.

[Judy Arndt]

webhak wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the heck the Path Overlap option controls in the Trace
> tool dialog box? I'm not seeing a difference when I change the settings from
> None to Loose to Tighter...either that or I'm experimenting with the wrong
> object to trace.

Tracing with Overlap produces stacked shapes which may or may not be useful
to you.

Try this to see the difference. Draw a t-shirt shape, red fill. Duplicate
shirt, give it a dark blue and send to back, offset from shirt to act as a
hard-edged drop shadow. Draw a few yellow-filled polka dots on the shirt.
Select all and Group.

Traced with overlap, the shadow will sit on top of a larger
shirt-plus-shadow shape. Polka dots will have a blue copy beneath the
yellow.

Traced without overlap, shirt shape does not include shadow. Polka dots are
traced only once as yellow.

Judy Arndt