Expert: Richard - 1/12/2010

Question
QUESTION: Hi, Richard I hope your're doing fine...
I want to ask you how to cut an image in illustrator, except clipping mask. Thank You...

ANSWER: Sorry I am not sure exactly what you mean by 'except clipping mask"?
Can you clarify the question further?

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QUESTION: i mean besides clipping mask, what should I do to cut an image in illustrator....

Answer
You can use crop to... well, crop an object or objects. It is similar to clipping mask but discards all information outside the cropped area, rather than just hdiing it. A brief summary of how it works (taken from peachpit) is below. :
Crop. The Crop pathfinder takes the topmost selected object and removes all objects and areas beneath it that fall outside its path. Unfortunately, this pathfinder works on vector objects only, and you can't use it to crop a raster image (you'll need Photoshop for that). This function ignores strokes on objects, so it's best to perform an Outline Paths function before applying the Crop pathfinder.
You can find it in the pathfinder pallette.

If you simlply want to cut a line in two you can use the scissors tool, it is behind the eraser in the tool pallette.

Hope this helps.