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Running Illustrator CS5 on Mac OS 10.7
Reopening an Illustrator document expands all layers
For files containing a large amount of layers, this is very irritating.
Is this a general problem or just my version/me?
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I'm not sure where to look for these resources, but I'm trying to create an Art Nouveau style logo. What I would like to do is have the actual text be shape similar to what is in Carl Jungs redbook. any suggestions on how to create this effect?
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Should designers base their font choices for body text and headlines on the typeface used in the logotype (if used) to achieve brand consistency?
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I'm trying to draw a roof with no success.
These areas should be filled that I can add roof texture there. I tried with sandbox and "from contour" but it's not what I want (can't use a tile texture on it).
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As a beginner in Illustrator I've been creating some pretty cool graphics I'd like to share on my website. From what I've seen, people create a one file .ai icon pack that you can download and use freely. Most of these are setup in a perfect grid format, even with around 100 icons. If I am looking to do something like ... |
I am an architect and I want to design my basic website with minimum graphics. I'm using coreldraw, but it's more related to print (hardcopies) and it's not as "smart" compared to the adobe software.
So, for web design, I started to learn Fireworks and after some practice, I was able to design web graphics. But the mai... |
I often find that I need to change the text on buttons.
I'd like to create some CSS based editable buttons with mouse over effects.
And the whole button should be clickable (not just the text).
I have heard that older browsers don't "stretch" images very well so maybe I'll need several variations of the CSS Class, each... |
I've done search after search, messed with color profiles, image color management, etc, but I still find that when I simply print screen and paste it in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I get a much lighter image. It even looks like it has less colors, or JPEG compression artefacts.
I've tried flipping between sRGB, Macintosh RGB ... |
I do not want initial image to change size, I simply want to add transparent padding around what I already have.
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I want to know how to blur something in peaks, here's a picture to help describe it:
Segment C is blurred the most then B then A to create an effect like the one on the right but with blur.
I was wondering if there was a way to do this but on a finer scale with more segments that did not involve me selecting 1 pixel t... |
I'm wondering if anyone has any tips, tutorials or templates on how to 'fake' a printed effect. I want to make it look in my portfolio like I have printed business cards and other collateral without doing so.
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I am still pretty new to illustrator, so I am still learning. I have a shape (pill shape) that is all white. I am trying to "fill" half of the shape with a yellow color (keeping the black stroke intact. Does anyone know how to go about this?
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We have a bunch of Word documents that people create using a template that matches our business's look-and-feel. When we're done writing the content, we send it to a designer than the typeset the document using InDesign. This ultimately produces a PDF that looks pretty much exactly like the source document (maybe a b... |
I need help or rather to be pointed in the right direction please.
Take a look at the artwork:
On the left you see my "on paper" art. On the right is my attempt to do the same thing on the digital tablet. No matter what I can't seem to find the right technique to do it.
If I try Vector lines - it comes out to comic b... |
Situation
While moving anchor points around and…
you currently have Snap to Point and Smart Guides turned on and
you momentarily don’t want the points to snap during this operation.
Problem
You have to exit what you’re doing (moving points) and
your only choice is to visit View and deselect the particular snapping ... |
I've noticed lately that some of the websites I visit regularly are adopting a new and bizarre trend in Web Design: "the dotted pictures". Not sure what to call it. It looks as if a pattern of regularly-spaced dots was deliberately layered on top of all thumbnails, or sometimes it's a light grid pattern instead of dots... |
I am placing some Photoshop-made artwork into InDesign and exporting to PDF for print. My artwork is quite dark, and Ps's eyedropper tells me that some of my blacks are around the 90/95/95/85 mark. My printer specifies a max of 300% ink.
Will the colour profile I use in InDesign (Web Coated FROGRA28) automatically conv... |
I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question for this site, but I tried to find an answer through Google and I found a question here about copying UI themes/paradigms so I hope it's not off-topic.
The answer to that question was that it's not illegal to copy as long as you don't use the exact same graphics.
But wha... |
If you put this image on a black background you see something different than on a white background. Does anyone have a idea how it works?
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I have a requirment to have users be able to select button colors, I want that according to the background color they select, an appropriate, contrasted button text color will be determined automatically.
for that - I need some sort of formula, and I was wondering if anyone knows what such formula might be, I looked ar... |
The territory names are very small, no results with 'WhatTheFont!'.
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I'm using Fireworks for UI design. However, any saved png file from Fireworks shows different colors when opened in normal image viewers. Fireworks doesn't seem to have any color management options.
How can I make sure that the colors I'm looking at while designing will appear the same when the images are opened normal... |
There was a recent question discussing dotted overlays/dithering patterns on images, and I wanted to explore the method. I set it up so it was one black pixel, one blank, one black, etc. After duplicating it to cover the page, I found that it created what I can best describe as monitor flicker, or maybe banding? Someth... |
I've been downloading free 3d models for a project that I'm working on, but I can't figure out how to disable the default shading. I'm using 3DS MAX 2013.
Here's an example of a table I'm working on:
I used the material editor to add a Diffuse material to the top of the table. As you can see, there is shading around t... |
Is there a way to place files in Photoshop without scaling (true pixel of image)? They automatically resize to fit screen when I drag into PSD file! For example, when place a 48x48px to 480x480px PSD, it's scaled to 480x480.
My system info: Photoshop CS5, Windows 7.
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I have a PSD file that my designer gave me fitted for iPad dimensions. I need to support the retina iPad as well. What's the best way to create the 2x retina images? Should I scale up the layers by 200% and then cut the PNG file? I imagine this would be better than just scaling up the PNG file itself.
If so, what's th... |
I'd like to make use of photoshop's "Smart Objects" to have an easier time managing my layers. I have about 20 layers that will be duplicated 10 times... and I'd rather manipulate them as single objects than as 20 layers each.
I created a smart object out of the 20 layers... when I duplicated the smart object, and edit... |
I want pixel information menu to float around cursor in Photoshop CS5. How do I do that?
The menu called Info or its contents is what I need to float.
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The problem:
The anti-aliased rounded corners of my app icons show, due to the transparency, some pixels of the underlying background.
My quick solution:
Instead of exporting with "intact" corners I filled the space with the apporpriate texture. Making the corners look perfect on iOS devices.
And it was good for the ... |
forgive me if this question doesnt fit the purpose of this stackexchange site,
Some of you probably have experience with logo design,
I'd like to ask a question,
I currently have a client that owns a website that lets marrying couples arrange their weddings in, find suppliers such as wedding dress designers or wedding ... |
I don't know if any of you had this problem, I'm using photoshop CS3,
And sometimes in order to choose a font quickly, while the text tool is selected, I click on the text field that shows the currently selected font, then I type the name of the font I want to use, most of the times it works just fine and finds the fon... |
I have a hard copy swatch of pantone Colour bridge uncoated colours.
I am setting up some packaging items in illustrator and have shown the client visuals in CMYK. I have now selected the Pantones 4596 U and also 468 U. I am aware that the colours will be off, I am viewing on an Imac and 99% of my artwork I produce is... |
I'm making a new site, but I feel like colors or elements dimension aren't that good at all, I want it to look elegant and makes the user comfortable when looking at it. Right now I'm not getting that feeling, don't know why exactly, maybe it's the buttons or the background, I don't know for sure.
I tried to do my best... |
I have a file which is 1020px X 200px Artboard/Document dimensions and the drawings coves the whole artboard as follows.
When I "Export" the file as "png" (File>Export) it's dimensions change to 4250px X 458px as follows.
However when I use "Save for Web & Devices" (File>Save for Web & Devices" and save as "png" it's... |
Is there an agreement on what the optimum mathematical proportion of line height and the size of a text is? And if there is, is it the same for print and web?
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I have this image which I want to re-draw/reverse engineered so that I can use it at different sizes as resizing it cause it to look bad.
But I can't seem to figure out how to do it. The drop shadows on two sides and with the amount of shadows increasing from less to more as you go further out.
Do I, just for example,... |
Does anyone know of a font suitable for the title of a newspaper? It is also the type that's used for the first letter of a chapter of a book (and is so calligraphic, you can't tell if it has serifs or not).
I am looking for something like the one used by the "newspaper clipping generator" at fodey.com:
Generated at f... |
I once read, that one should use optimized/specialized fonts for headings and titles. The claimed reason was, that a kerning which is good for reading is not good (or optimal) for titles.
I tried to google this issue, but only found collections of 'free fonts for Big and Powerful Headings[tm]' and one Q/A on ux.stacke... |
On Google's search page there is a visible vertical scroll bar even when it is not necessary. This can be avoided by deleting the following style from body selector
overflow-y: scroll;
When this is done, there is no vertical scroll bar on default and when the height of browser window is not enough to display entire c... |
Can I legally use Microsoft Office icons in designing my site?
For example:
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Most university map apps on Google's Play store seem to just use their university's logo or a generic map icon. Neither way seems ideal, but I'm unable to come up with a better way myself.
How do I come up with different ideas for an icon design?
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So I downloaded some free custom brushes to draw some hills.
The "default" size of these brushes are ~850px so I change it to 35px. But if I use another brush and then switch back to this, then it always scales back to 850px.
So, if I change a brush size then how to achieve to "stay" at this size forever?
(sorry for my... |
I am new to the graphic design chat here. Please provide any feedback/critique on the
poster available via these links. One is on a colored background, the other is on a white background. Which is better? Are there glaring design issues here? There are no designers where I work and I could really use some constructive ... |
Consider the following two images:
The second image is my desired result: the artboard dimensions perfectly match the layer/selection/content. However, I had to resize the artboard manually. Is there a way to do this automatically? Ultimately I'm saving the file as an SVG. Rather than resizing the artboard, is there s... |
I have 2 layers: first layer is just regular layer with some graphics, and second layer has additional graphics which are on top of the first and it has blending mode set to "Overlay".
What I need is to produce third layer (or just convert second layer) which will have blending mode set to Normal and if it will be disp... |
Have several copies of the same object moved around to different areas in the artboard.
Decide you want to scale them all by 75%.
Select the first object, do the scale.
Select the next object, press Command + D.
The object is scaled, but moved in position relative to the original object. Not on top, but near it.
How ... |
What do you think are the objective features of Yahoo's well known emoticon set, that they use for mail, instant messaging etc., that make them so much better at communicating user's feelings and subjectively look so much better than most other emoticon sets seen on the web or in desktop software?
(Explanation: I thoug... |
The concept of a focal point seems to be a fundamental one in web design, yet doesn't a focal point mean a page cannot be balanced?
Surely by definition a focal point means that the page's 'weight' is shifted towards this focal point?
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When choosing File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files.. in Photoshop CS3, why can't I select a png format (png-8 or png-24)?
I cannot trim layers using any of this. :(
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You may know me (not that I am worth knowing) from my first question. I am a noob in web design, graphic desgin, font theroy, color theory, guess all of the mixes that are crucial. My expertise (whatever level that maybe) is in web coding (html, css) and RDBMS with strong skills in Database Modeling. Having successfull... |
I am trying to create a bevel effect similar to the attached image. I have set the depth to 30%, size to 1px and soften to 0px, but the final effect has bevels which are not as crisp as those on the attached image - the bevels look very slightly blurred. Any advice on the necessary settings to recreate the bevels seen ... |
I followed this solution to make Polish ogoneks in InDesign through GREP style BUT every time I use it, the negative tracking is also be applied to the space or next character which immediately follows it. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
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I've tried searching for an answer to this, but I have no idea what terms to even search for.
I'm creating the artwork for a repeating pattern that is going to be printed on a large quantity of fabric (think 100 meter rolls). I'm wondering what the normal way to present the artwork for this would be, since it's not jus... |
What effect is used in this image?
Bigger photo.
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I am designing org charts using PowerPoint 2010 (because they will need to be edited by people without design software) and it's becoming maddening.
I decided to use the smart art feature because it seemed flexible and easy at first. I'm using the hierarchy preset. When I resize a box, it resizes and even moves all or... |
My department recently upgraded from CS5 to CS6. We are preparing an InDesign print publication for this year and are repurposing last year's Illustrator and InDesign files which we produced with CS5. When we save each Illustrator file, Illustrator displays the warning message "Saving to a legacy format may cause some ... |
I have read this article by Doug Avery where he explains how to disable Color Management in Adobe Photoshop and the follow-up article in response to the uproar of the commenters arguing against it and supporting sRGB, although I am still not convinced on what technique I should apply in my personal workflow.
From what ... |
Is it possible to create this in inkscape? It would be very useful in flow diagrams. At the moment I have two arrows and it becomes a mess when it needs to be repositioned:
I tried drawing two connectors and combining them, then using snap at midpoint feature to some what connect them. It produced a decent result:
Bu... |
I currently have an on-screen table that is ~250 rows long. To make it easier to read, I've decided to go with zebra striping. From what I can gather from this question, the ideal alternate color is something that doesn't contrast too much from the base color (in this case white).
The rest of the UI has a pale blue co... |
Given the following setup:
File: SomeFilename.ai
Which contains artboards named:
Artboard_01
Artboard_02
Artboard_03
At the moment if I export the artboards Illustrator insists on prepending the filename to the artboards. So the files generated would be named:
SomeFilename_Artboard_01.png
SomeFilename_Artboar... |
Is there a way (possibly via a 3rd party plugin) to read/write PDF annotations/comments in Illustrator?
We use PDF comments heavily in our workflow with Illustrator. The problem is to add/edit/view these comments we need to use two programs.
The comments are used to embed markup language that our custom software which... |
Is there a way in Illustrator to know the exact dimension of shape in pixel and possibly to resize it down to different (but precise) dimension?
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I've worked with single and dual monitor setups in different situations in the past, but it's been a while since I last had two. Right now, I'm using a single Dell 24" that seems enough to handle adobe and web developing programs (I got used to just alt-tabbing my way through them), but I'm wondering if I should grab o... |
I have a font which has six styles (Black, Bold, Extra bold, Light, Medium and Regular). For each style there's an OTF file. If I install all the OTF files, the font shows up properly in the Fonts panel in Windows, it shows as a family so that if I double click it, then another window appears with each style.
However, ... |
Photoshop's pencil tool has a setting for "auto erase". When set, clicking on a pixel of the current foreground color causes it to draw over it with the background color. This is great if you're drawing on a colored background, but useless when the background is transparent.
How can I set the pencil tool to erase pixel... |
I have photos of a product and I would like to create a white background behind it. See it here:
I have tried playing with levels and the brightness but that also messes up the product itself. How do i do this?
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I'm designing a web application which has lots of data tables with business information both as numbers (sales, hours etc) and text (product names, region names etc).
What fonts are great for dense information displays? I've played with usual suspects like Helvetica, Helvetica Neue and Tahoma, but are there others tha... |
First some background...
We have a custom piece of software that requires PDF files to auto generate web pages. These PDF files are pretty typical, the only special thing about these is that hey have proprietary programming codes added to the comments/annotations that instructs the 3rd party software on how to transf... |
The graphic designer for my club created a red and black logo (major color is black highlighted with red). Everyone thinks it looks great, and I agree. The issue lies with designing the site. We've been trying to design a red and black site around the logo, but everything we've come up with looks dark, heavy, and sa... |
I am trying to create a gif of a growing line, which changes direction. I drew the line using the path tool, so I need a way to animate drawing process of a Beziér curve. Essentially I need to create a similar animation to the the following one (just the red line and the black dot, however the black dot is optional):
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I've got a bunch of puppies i need to mask in the same way as below, where each puppy will be within a shadowed circle:
I got the first one working using a layer mask, but now i want an easy way to apply the same mask layer to all my other puppies, and I can't figure out how. The current mask is tied to this specific ... |
Metalista is a modern blackletter font (afaik :)) designed by Suitcase Type Foundry as a tribute to "the persistency of the metal culture."
What other typefaces (used as subtitles) would mix best with Metalista (used for the title)?
In case that's too broad a question, here's an example narrowing: How well does Steinem... |
Everytime I create a new shape in Photoshop CS5, whether on a new layer, document, whatever, it's always starting out with a drop shadow. I can't figure out why this default filter is being applied?
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I know how to trim a document to get rid of surrounding transparent space, but is there a way to do this only for saving off to web & devices, without impacting the actual document?
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I would like to reconstruct a simple bitmap to vector, so I have put a grid and a layer on top of it.
Is it possible to e.g. use the fill tool, to just fill out one of the grid squares at a time?
Or is there a better way?
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Is it possible to find out what compression algorithms have been used for images in a PDF document?
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A friend of mine uses PDF as the default format for saving Photshop files. For both master and working documents. He never saves anything as a PSD. Is this good practice?
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I know this is all subjective, but I'm hoping there are general principles here that will mean this is a valid question.
Take a look at the layout below. In the past (before I tried to learn about this stuff properly) I would have made the text line up with the left hand side of box 1. However, I think it looks more ba... |
If I want to use the Arc Tool, I click & hold the Line Tool icon and then I count,
1 Mississippi ...
2 Mississippi ...
And then the submenu appears.
Is there a way to reduce this lag? Or is there a keyboard shortcut to open submenus?
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I've cut and pasted vector art from Illustrator to PhotoShop and chose "smart object" when I pasted it.
Is there a way to convert the smart object to a shape layer now so I can edit the very simple art directly in PhotoShop?
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I've gotten errors when I attempted to use Inkscape, GIMP, and Uniconverter because I don't have access to the proprietary software. Perhaps the file corrupt? Thanks for any advice, this is a charitable cause ("Feed my Starving Children") if that is extra motivation for you!
I'm trying to convert the .eps which is pa... |
I can't find much about using fleurons/hedera as bullets in a list online or in Bringhurst, but I did find several "floral heart bullets" in Unicode. Are these still only for decorative use? Would their use in a complex list be a faux pas?
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We have roughly 55 cards that all have the exact same text. The titles and backgrounds differ among the cards. So I've made just one AI with the different backgrounds and all the text as one copy in a layer on top.
Now I can just hide each background layer and save as PDF. But even unchecking preserve editing capabili... |
I've a Wacom Bamboo Fun Touch & Pen to draw on the PC. I also have some old designs drawed on paper that I want to draw on the PC using Photoshop. The problem is that the paper design is bigger than the drawable surface of the graphics tablet. I want to redraw the designs overlapping the paper on the tablet, so that I ... |
Sometimes when using Adobe Illustrator I need to get a range of tints from a certain color, so I'll drop the opacity to, say, 75%, 50%, and 25% on a white background to get there. It's the quickest way to get what I want in that moment, but then it comes back to bite me later when I put something underneath and then I ... |
I am new to illustrator, if this is too basic do provide links for me (tutorial).
I've made a shape, and I put styles on the layer, gradient, color overlay, opacity reduced, I know how to copy the shape, but to get the exact same gradient, opacity, how to do it? it's like a blend of styles.
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Some time ago I managed to add this text (see below) to a logo at 512 x 512 px.
I reproduced the black text using Arial Bold 200 with kerning at -20 in Paintshop Pro.
However, if I try to feather, expand or contract in Paintshop Pro or Photoshop, I end up with a much more rounded inner area (shown in white below). I'v... |
I'm having problems adding text using the type path tool in illustrator within a round vector.
Every time I go to type on a path though the background colour disappears. Here's an example:
If anyone can help and it's the blue area I want to get circular text within.
I also tried saving it as an image and creating new ... |
Possible Duplicate:
Life size image in Photoshop
I'm designing my first business card for a client so this question is a matter of printing. Here's my question; how come when I make my canvas 3.5in x 2in (at 100% zoom) it's not as big as the business card when I hold it up to the screen?
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I use the typeface "Lobster_1.0_.otf" in my Android application, but the problem is, that some of the letters appear "hollow", with a black&white outline. You can see the problem on the following image:
Another typeface (CasLonItalic.ttf) had similar problem: only the character "l" was hollow. So I think there is some... |
It's very quick (a few seconds) to add bevel to a shape in Photoshop but when I do the same for a graph object in Illustrator the Mac I'm working on takes an age to render the artwork. Why does this happen?
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I want to make a business card in illustrator.
Here is my design:
Question 1:
The design labeled (1) is perfectly aligned from back to front.
I've downloaded a template for illustrator here.
The problem is when I export as tiff, the image doesn't follow the guides, the lines that are already in illustrator. Instead,... |
So, you can have a heading running on each page that varies automatically based on the most recent heading (or, occurrence of any other paragraph style) by putting text with InDesign text variables based on the Running Headings text variable type ( type > text variables > define). Example tutorial.
So, for a textbook, ... |
Just wondering if anyone has hammered out any good solutions to presenting PNG screen comps to clients, especially if there are more than a dozen screens. Adobe Bridge has some half decent HTML gallery output options, but I was wondering what other tools and techniques people use to remotely and reliably present full-q... |
I read this question regarding Fireworks layers, where it said that master pages have to be applied underneath other layers.
Is this true for InDesign as well? If not, how does one put the Master Page content on top?
I was playing out a scenario that another user presented where you'd have one piece of text and differe... |
I've been trying to draw a beehive graphic in illustrator. My approach has been to draw an ellipse in yellow and change it's perspective. Then on top of that adding a copy of that ellipse, resize it slightly, make it black and place it over the first yellow ellipse so it forms a banana like shape. I do this slowly gett... |
Is it possible to roughly select an area (with the Export area tool) around an image you are working on and have the bounding box automatically shrink to fit it?
to
I have to do this a lot and manually drawing the bounding box is v. fiddly, and it is easy to click outside the handles and have to start again!
I usual... |
I was wondering how I copy selected paths of a shape in PS CS6.
I start selecting the paths I want to copy by clicking on them and holding SHIFT.
I then press ALT SHIFT which only copies one of the selected paths.
How can I copy all of the selected paths, not just one?
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I'm converting hand-drawn and scanned letters into vector paths via live trace. So far, so good.
The next step I need to do is break up the live-traced letters into individual objects, so I can move them around, independently of each other. But after live-tracing, the object seems to have the dimensions of the original... |
Is there any way of converting a illustrator file with text and logos to one only. As I'm working for a client that only wants to print with one-color?
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