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| Inline / Outline | 12/4/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Is there a way in Illustrator to create outlines/inlines to a messurement?.. ex. i have a circle an ...
A: If you use the stroke palette in conjunction with the appearance palette, you can have two strokes ...
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| Outlining a Photo | 12/3/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm an intarsia artist and want to be able to start making my own patterns. I need to learn to take ...
A: You can take your photo and create a grayscale image in Photoshop and posterize it using the filters ...
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| illustrator 10 swatch library drop down disappeared | 12/2/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: noticed that Amy had this problem sometime back. Out of the blue my swatch library drop down does ...
A: You cannot "trash" your preferences to reset the app. You have to use the keyboard shortcut I ...
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| illustrator 10 swatch library drop down disappeared | 12/2/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: noticed that Amy had this problem sometime back. Out of the blue my swatch library drop down does ...
A: I have forwarded your issue onto Adobe to see if they have any suggestions. I have never seen this ...
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| illustrator 10 swatch library drop down disappeared | 12/2/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: noticed that Amy had this problem sometime back. Out of the blue my swatch library drop down does ...
A: Im never really sure how people get this to disappear, but most times it has to do with a break ...
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| faint dots around a logo | 12/2/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm far from an expert on illustrator and photoshop. My problem is that I created a logo in ...
A: The faint softness you are seeing around your logo appears to be bitmapping from your image. Double ...
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| changing the shape of imported objects in illustrator 10 | 12/1/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I am having problems changing the shape of a photo I have imported in to illustrator. I have used ...
A: What you will need to do is create a clipping mask over the photo. Illustrator does not allow you to ...
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| garbled object message | 11/27/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I have working on a file in Illustrator CS 11.0. Opening with no problem. Working with someone on ...
A: Unfortunately, you have corrupted your file when you saved as a pdf. Normally this happens when you ...
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| Inserting hyperlinks into an Illustrator document | 11/25/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I am trying to insert my website link into an article I've written which was done in Adobe ...
A: You have to add the hyperlink in Acrobat after you make the PDF. You cannot export out a pdf with ...
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| Compound paths | 11/25/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Im working on a vector portrait of somebody. I've created areas of color using the pen tool and i ...
A: Normally when the compound path isnt working is either due to open paths (not a closed object) or ...
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| Illustrator 2CS | 11/24/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I have used Illustrator 2CS for some time now...with only an occasional problem of it crashing. But, ...
A: Without knowing what operating system and specifics you have (RAM, etc.) there are only general ...
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| using photo images as swatches | 11/23/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'd like to create a realistic drawing for my client using photos of the actual textile. In this ...
A: Use the eyedropper tool to pick up the colors and then drag the swatch to your swatches palette. ...
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| Arrows | 11/23/2008 | Laith Ibrahim |
Q: Can I make arrows like in Corel Draw. Not just arrow heads, but actual arrows.
A: I don't know anything about how Corel Draw creates arrows? I never use it so I'm going to tell you ...
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| Recipients Cannon View My EPS attachments | 11/22/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm no expert in Illustrator, but ever since I upgraded from AI 10 to CS3 no one can view my EPS ...
A: Tamara, This sounds like a version issue. If you are saving your eps files as CS3 .eps they may be ...
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| Illustrator 9 for Mac running on Classic | 11/21/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: My Adobe Illustrator 9.0, running in Classic mode on a Mac, will no longer "save" or "save as" any ...
A: I would say that your ID/IL have somehow corrupted in your classic environment. The only solution I ...
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| CS2: cannot print illustration | 11/21/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: We recently purchased CS4 design pack for my PC. I had to un-install the whole thing because I ...
A: You will need to uninstall everything (including cs2) and then run this cleanup script and reinstall ...
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| Directional Feather in Illustrator CS3 | 11/20/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm trying to apply a directional feather to an object in Illustrator. There is no directional ...
A: This feature is not available in Illustrator CS3. CS4 does have direction feathering and gradient ...
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| Illustrator Freeze-of-some-type | 11/19/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Admittedly I let my two girls play on my ibook, and suddenly my Illustrator CS2 will not let me ...
A: To specify copying preferences, choose Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard (Windows) or ...
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| Illustrator 9 for Mac running on Classic | 11/18/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: My Adobe Illustrator 9.0, running in Classic mode on a Mac, will no longer "save" or "save as" any ...
A: This has to do with your hard drive and OS rather than AI. Either you are not in the admin mode ...
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| Illustrator crashes while opening | 11/18/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I am having a problem with my Illustrator CS. What I think may have caused it was adding a symbol ...
A: Reset your AI by holding shift+opt+apple+ctrl right after you double click the app icon. That ...
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| typing Thai in Adobe Illustrator | 11/18/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I was reading over the advice of another expert Amy. I followed her advice and got to the point of ...
A: Setting up your computer to recognize a Thai keyboard is the first step. In order to use Thai ...
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| sudden PDF output problem with Illustrator CS3 | 11/17/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm working on a mac Leopard 10.5. I often need to produce pdfs with printer's marks from ...
A: You should not be using the print window to create your PDFs out of Illustrator. Use the file save ...
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| sudden PDF output problem with Illustrator CS3 | 11/17/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I'm working on a mac Leopard 10.5. I often need to produce pdfs with printer's marks from ...
A: Two things come to mind. One check your document size and page setup. This looks a lot like that ...
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| making a pdf from illustrator | 11/14/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Please bear with me as I have very limited knowledge of Illustrator and computers in general. I am ...
A: In your print window you have the "fit to page" option selected. You can change that to actual size ...
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| still not working | 11/11/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I did re-download the printer drivers, and I still don't have the normal printing settings. I ...
A: If you are talking about the presets that you get in the print window (ie you choose a tabloid ...
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| plug-ins | 11/11/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I notice that my illustrator cs2 (power mac g5) takes a quite long time to open, and that it usually ...
A: You may have a lot of fonts loaded up on your mac that are taking so much time. It may look like the ...
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| flattened image | 11/11/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I teach 10-12 grade Illustrator and Photoshop.We do a project where they place an image of an animal ...
A: This probably has to do with how they have saved them. You can separate them by selecting everything ...
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| Adobe Illustrator | 11/9/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: i want to design a letter "A" on Adobe Illustrator with an outline to be able to cut it in a ...
A: Using the Type tool (T), click and type your letter A. You can also select this to make it any size ...
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| New label | 11/7/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: A graphic designer created a label for my salt company using Ai. After creating 9 versions of the ...
A: First, if this was created in AI, you should use AI to edit them, not Photoshop. IIt is just as easy ...
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| toile pattern | 11/7/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: i am trying to use illustrator CS3 to make a vintage toile pattern that's almost like a pencil ...
A: Angie, If you want to retain the sketch that you scanned, I would just leave it as a Photoshop ...
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| toile pattern | 11/6/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: i am trying to use illustrator CS3 to make a vintage toile pattern that's almost like a pencil ...
A: This is something you can start in AI to create the actual repeating pattern, then bring into ...
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| Arrows | 11/6/2008 | Laith Ibrahim |
Q: I am new to illustrator. I need to create an arrow on a photo. How is this done in Illustrator? ...
A: Creating arrows is very simple in Illustrator. Here are the steps in details: 1. Create a line ...
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| Illustrator CS3 crashes when saving as eps (Mac) | 11/4/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: OS: Mac OS X 10.5.5 2x2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Memory: 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM Software: ...
A: This sounds like a standard memory problem (or lack there of). Try this: Go to your utilities and ...
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| AI CS2 | 11/4/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: 2 Questions 1.in the last 2 days I have received an error message while drawing in AI "error ace ...
A: Not knowing if you are on Vista or not, I would say that you haven't maxed out CS2, but you may need ...
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| resize objects | 10/30/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I have been working all on illustrator CS2 (windows). Every so often I saved my file under a new ...
A: You have turned off your bounding box (cmd+H) that will solve the arrow problem. I need to know ...
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| Problems re-installing Illustrator 10 | 10/30/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I recently had an external hard drive crash, but was able to get the data recovered. I tried ...
A: Are you installing from the application DVDs or Windows installer wizard? Im assuming that you are ...
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| Have to Reboot to Print in CS3 | 10/29/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Kevin: I've been using Illustrator since Illustrator 7. For whatever reason, I cannot Print in CS3 ...
A: Larry, First, just because 4 gigs of RAM is what is required for XP, does not mean that it is ...
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| changing a cmyk doc to grayscale | 10/29/2008 | Laith Ibrahim |
Q: I have created a document in illustrator and want to be sure it prints as black and white only. How ...
A: The method to change your Illustrator artwork to grayscale depends on what version of Illustrator ...
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| Have to Reboot to Print in CS3 | 10/29/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: Kevin: I've been using Illustrator since Illustrator 7. For whatever reason, I cannot Print in CS3 ...
A: The one specification that you did not give me is your printer. But I believe the answer is in your ...
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| Printer's Marks - Page Information | 10/28/2008 | Kevin Stohlmeyer |
Q: I am using Adobe Illustrator CS2(Windows)and I'm trying to print the Page Information for my ...
A: When you go to print, you will need to go to the marks and bleeds section to select what you want to ...
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