[JHendrix1217]

Hey guys,

I have been using Illustrator CS2 for a while now but I have never been officially "taught" anything.

I am trying to create an effect by drawing a bunch of lines (paths with strokes) and using those to "knock out" those spaces in some text.

Essentially, I would like to make the text look striped, with lines cutting through the text. I know I should be able to do this with the pathfinder tool, but it doesn't seem to be working.

I got this to work using a live-traced image -- I used the following tutorial --> (http://www.illustratortechniques.com/distressedtype.html).
This, however, involved an image which was live-traced and used as the texture -- I would like to use my own paths as the texture. No matter what I do (compound path, ungrouped, grouped)... the remove back function doesnt work.


Please help! I've been messing with this for a couple hours and it's really bothering me. Thanks in advance!

[Disjuku]

Sounds to me like you need to expand the outline before using the path finder.

This will turn the stroke into a shape which can be used properly.