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Hello. We are running into an issue where our non-rectangular dieline STROKES (so custom shapes, circles/ovals, rounded-corner rectangles, etc) are getting converted to fills (compound paths) when we run the 'Clean Up Content' action. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? (Pitstop Pro 2019)

Thanks!

It's the Action 'Crop Line Art to Clip Masks...' that is doing that.
if you remove that it won't happen.

You can remove the 'Select all 'above it as well

Thank you for the quick response. Unfortunately these options aren't giving the desired results (maybe I'm just doing it wrong lol)

This is the original image in wireframe https://imgur.com/4TrCbVR
This is the goal: https://imgur.com/PPQ2pbn
I got there by cutting the dieline, running the action, then pasting the dieline back in place. Not ideal.

If I delete the 'select all' above 'Crop Line...' the dieline is still converting to a fill.
If I delete 'Crop Line...' it's not cleaning up all of the extra paths.

Is there a way to exclude strokes with a certain color name before running the action?

Dropbox link to pdf if needed https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxllik0gdjg6o ... 3.pdf?dl=0

(Hope all those links work!!)
Thank you!

Change the Select all right before Crop line art to:

Select spot color
NOT

In the spot color selection make it select a spot color by name and fill out or select the Dieline spot color. This will select everything _except_ objects using the Dieline separation.

You can also use a regular expression or a list should you get files with different names for die die line (e.g. Die, Dieline, Cut, ...)

Works perfectly!
Thank you so much!