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Adobe Illustrator Saving to PSD: “Not enough memory to save the file”
This is on CS5.5 under Windows XP Professional.
There seems to be a known issue about saving (large) Adobe Illustrator files to PSD (thoroughly discussed), where the exporter will complain about "Not ...
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Russian fonts in an English Illustrator CS5
A problem software platform is the following system:
Windows 7 Professional English
MS Office 2010 Eng
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Windows has a rather small set of fonts that come pre-configured out of ...
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HP printer and Adobe Illustrator colours changing on Mac
I have got Adobe Illustrator CS3 on my iMac, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. I recently got a new printer, an HP Photosmart B110, product number CN245B, serial number CN1393K1Q405J8, driver version HP Inkjet 8 ...
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Ai CS5 gaussian blur effect renders choppy
I'm in the middle of creating a tap bell in Illustrator CS5 for a logo. I seem to be having problems with the Gaussian Blur effect under Effects > Photoshop Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur.
Whenever ...
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Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator file preview in Windows Explorer
I'm a designer who deals with a lot of psd and ai files and it's very time consuming to sort through multiple files.
I was wondering if it were possible to use Windows Explorer's file preview ...
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SVG to After Effects workflow?
I have a JavaScript chart component that outputs SVG. (It's kind of like an animated bar chart with a time slider.)
One of my clients would like to customize this animation further in After Effects - ...
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Can I use Illustrator or InDesign to make a Google Doc look good?
I've just finished collaborating on a document in Google Docs with some colleagues. The content is perfect and the formatting is pretty good, but I'd like to tweak the formatting a little more before ...
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Illustrator CS5 changed my default black
I'm working in Adobe Illustrator CS5 and noticed that my default black in the general colors panel is not set at true black. Instead of 0, 0, 0 (RGB mode) it is 35, 31, 32. I tried playing with the ...
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what's the correct way to crop art when saving for web in Adobe Illustrator?
I need to save a bunch of illustrations for web use, and I cannot find any 'crop to art dimensions' option when saving them. I've therefore been creating a new artboard for each illustration by ...
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Illustrator batch save files to 1024x1024 png maintaining proportions
I got a bunch of ai files, that I need to save to png.
Is it possible to save them with an Image output of ex. 1024 x 1024 while still maintain the proportions?
The perfect solution would be if you ...
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Good place to start learning Adobe Illustrator CS5 [closed]
The question may be off topic for SU, but I couldn't find any better place than this.
I've been into designing for a while now, and have learned Photoshop by myself, and currently having fairly good ...
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PDF rendering of images seems to vary from viewer to viewer with blurring?
I'm generating PDF figures in Adobe Illustrator CS5 that include embedded images. I've noticed that the images look dramatically different when I display the same PDF in Preview, Skim or Adobe Reader ...
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See coordinates of the cursor in Illustrator
Given that there is an empty document in Illustrator CS5, is there a way to see what it the current X and Y coordinates of the point at which the cursor is pointing at?
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How to save in an Adobe Illustrator or Corel compatible format from Fireworks
I have the original image in fireworks.
I have been asked to send a vectorized image that will be opened either from Adobe Illustrator or Corel.
Any of the two will work.
So my questions is, are ...
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Adobe Illustrator: Show All Guide Coordinates For Printing
I'm working on a project that needs to generate a PDF file, for this I received a .ai file with guides on it. Now the problem is, I want to print it out with all the coordinates where the guides cross ...
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Adobe Illustrator Tool selectors not working
I just got the Adobe Master Collection CS5.5. Long time Photoshop user but just playing around with Illustrator for the first time. I am already having an issue though. See photo...
When I try ...
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Making a contrasting outer border in Illustrator
Web graphics often have a thin border that constrasts with their main color (e.g. a white border for a black graphic) so that they remain visible when placed over a background that shares their fill ...
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Trying to reproduce a color in CMYK Mode
Firstly i cant find an appropriate forum, so I'll ask this question here in case someone might know the answer. I'm very new to design so please bear with me. I am creating a set of business cards ...
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Can I get pixel measurements using Adobe Illustrator CS3?
I've been handed a few Adobe Illustrator to turn into web pages and it seems like Adobe Illustrator CS3 doesn't do measurements in in pixels by default. Is there a way to take measurements in pixels ...
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Registration point gets changed when opening AI CS3 files in AI CS5
I have an AI CS3 file that contains all the elements for the skinning of a Flex application.
I no longer have CS3 I have upgraded to CS5. When I open the file in CS5 it changes all the registration ...
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Why do applications that present color palettes sometimes restrict the colors to shades of gray?
I've noticed that sometimes on OS X, Adobe Illustrator's color palette only shows shades of gray rather than a full range of colors. If this occurred in Photoshop, I'd immediately assume the document ...
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From Illustrator to png with the help of ImageMagick
Currently I save my files in Illustrator as .pdf files so that I can use ImageMagick to manipulate the resulting images programatically (cropping, adding borders, resizing, etc) and convert them to ...
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Adobe Illustrator lags on Mac as Admin user but not Guest
I've been having a problem with Adobe Illustrator for a year plus where it constantly lags (rainbow spinning wheel on my Mac) and is almost unusable. Fortunately I don't use it much so I've been able ...
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How can I isolate a shape in Illustrator and export it as an SVG?
I want to use SVG for all graphics on my Web projects, but since I have always used Photoshop rather than Illustrator, my basic knowledge of how to work with Illustrator is limited.
I've created a ...
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Adobe illustrator 3D isometric rotate not working well
I am trying to create a perfect cube in Illustrator by creating 3 squares, and rotating them using Effect > 3D > Rotate.
However, the rotate function doesn't seem to work. It creates imperfect ...
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Illustrator CS4 is crashing on startup on OS X 10.7 (Lion). What can I do to fix it?
When I start Illustrator and click on the toolbar or Create New Print Document, I get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit Illustrator. I already tried cleaning out my preferences directory. ...
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Illustrator CS 5.1 Save for Web and Devices creates empty files
So, I'm attempting to "Generate CSS layers using Illustrator" following the steps documented here: ...
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Adobe version control software?
Does the Adobe CS suite of products come with a version control system that integrates natively with products such as Illustrator / Photoshop allowing action and/or layer level specific version ...
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Adobe Illustrator selecting a path on the layers panel by clicking on a path on the display view
I have an Illustrator file Paths are grouped on the layers panel. I want to see which path I am clicking on the layers panel as I want to rename the specific path How do I go about this?
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Can I adjust an anchor and its handles in Adobe Illustrator using my keyboard?
I find adjusting the handle length and angle of anchor points in Adobe Illustrator annoyingly imprecise. Is there a way to adjust them with my keyboard or set them directly?
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Any way to save image size settings in Illustrator CS5's Save for Web & Devices?
I'm using Illustrator CS5 for the Mac. Within Save for Web & Devices, I can save/load presets for PNG, GIF and JPEG compression settings, but there's no apparent way to do this for the image size ...
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Illustrator “Save for Web & Devices” returning crappy, pixelated images
I'm trying to create a nice title for my webpage... a big white title to sit on a black background. I'm using Illustrator to do so. When I create it, it looks nice, but when I hit "save for web & ...
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How to resize an .ai file in Photoshop CS4 without reducing image quality?
Am I right to assume you can enlarge .ai files without reducing the image quality? Are these vector files?
Also.... can you click & drag the object to make it bigger or do you have to use the ...
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help with stripes in Adobe Illustrator cs4
How to make abstract stripes in Adobe Illustrator? i am new in that sphere (direction).
With pen tool i have made a figure of stripe, and in 3D option i have choosen extrude, but it not attractive
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Fonts without file extension, install on Windows?
I have received a folder of fonts which I need to install on Windows. The problem is, they do not have file extensions. For each font there are two files. One of those two gives some info when ...
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Illustrator unbounded document
In Adobe Illustrator, how do I work with linear gradients in a .svg document with only percentages, like this hand-coded example:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
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For those who are professional artists, do your firms provide you with drawing tablets? [closed]
Or do you have to provide your own? If an employer did offer them, would it increase your desire to work there?
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Stacked anchor selection in Illustrator
I am working on learning Illustrator and am having trouble solving a particular problem.
So I have a closed shape that I cut on some anchor point. Now I have two anchor points one exactly on top of ...
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How good for drawing and illustration is Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch? [closed]
I just had a conversation with my girlfriend about how Intuos4's 2048 pressure levels makes Bamboo Pen & Touch (only 1024 pressure levels) seem such a waste of time and money. She's an extremely ...
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Convert Corel Draw to Illustrator
I have a team of 5 requesting to purchase Corel Draw just to be able to convert Corel Draw File to Illustrator files.
Is there a way to convert Corel Draw files to illustrator without having to ...
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A way or software to convert or export an audio file (aiff or wav) in a vector graphic format (eps, ai)?
I am looking for a way to read an audio file and convert it to a vector graphic format, which I can use for example for Illustrator? I am working on the Mac OSX platform (10.5.8).
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Illustrator CS5: suddenly every file format I “save for web & devices” is jagged
Never had this problem before, been using CS5 on my Mac OSX for months now. Suddenly in the past week every file I save for web and devices, whether it be jpeg, png or gif, is jagged. I didn't change ...
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How to change the artboard size in Illustrator via batch script?
I worked over 80 hours on a school project, the last step was animating in AE, but because of a small problem everything looks jagged.
I have around 6000 PDF's, and the solution would be to make the ...
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Illustrator CS4: Nodify artboard maintaining center point
I would like to modify an Illustrator artboard, while maintaining the center point. My normal workflow would be to hold Alt while dragging but this doesn't work.
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Illustrator - 2 shapes, one able to nudge 0.01px the other only 1px
I have 2 letters, both converted to outlines, one of them I can nudge 0.01px the other I can only nudge 1px but I can't figure out why!
Snap is off, smart guides are off and keyboard increment is set ...
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Ex-Macromedia Freehand junkies: what did you switch to?
Short and sweet. My boss loved Freehand MX back in the day, and when Adobe killed it Illustrator just didn't click for him. He's a fan of Inkscape, but it's a few features away from being feature ...
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Modifier key bug with Adobe Design Standard CS4 (Mac OS 10.6.6)
When I launch the Adobe apps, they ask me if I want to delete the preferences file. I say 'no'. Then, when using the apps, none of the tools seem to work properly, eg in Illustrator, I can't move ...
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Fonts not working in Adobe Illustrator
All my fonts work perfectly in Photoshop, but when I open Illustrator and try to use them, lots of them are not working. If I select the first font in Illustrator, and press the down arrow to scroll ...
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 64 bit on Windows
Trying to find out if there is a seperate or included 64-bit version of Adobe Illustrator for Windows like Photoshop has.
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How to create incremental numbers in InDesign or Illustrator?
I have an A3 layout with several tickets to be printed, each with an consecutive number. Is there a way to do it automatically instead of writing it by hand?
