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In Illustrator you should Expand Appearance on the filled shape until you just have raw vector shapes. You should get a better export after that. You can also import the .ai file into flash and uncheck any of the setting that allow rasterization. For something that node heavy however, You...

Start a new AI file and choose File->Place. Make sure the "Link" checkbox is ticked before hitting ok. Position your placed image where you want it then double click on Layer 1 in your layers panel. In the options that come up choose lock and dim. Hit OK then create a new layer. Make sure your...

At the very least you can position your artboard how you like and save a new view (View -> New View...) and then create an action that selects that view. Further, assign a key board shortcut or F-key to that action so when it does scroll you can at least fix it quickly. One would have to wonder...

In all font drop down menu's you can use your mouse wheel to scroll through them a bit faster. I do however think Adobe could improve on a number of things including a better way to present loaded fonts. A couple of tips on speeding things up. 1) If you know the name of the font, you can just...

Personally I've never had a font preview from app control bar but can easily toggle previews from Type->Font and the Character panel drop down via the Type section in preferences. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have always encountered violent...

Using this guide, you should be able to find your preferences file. I would rename it rather than delete it. Launch AI, make a change in your preferences then quit out. Normally you can just delete the newly created prefs file and change the name of the renamed one back to the original. That way...

Use of Crop Marks will force exported images to be cropped to their dimensions. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein

Sorry, inserted the wrong image and this forum surprisingly won't let you edit posts. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein

I don't see anywhere in that link where it appears LeGarconBleu has combined his existing shapes. It looks more like he used basic shapes for blocking out the area and drew new paths over the top of them. At any rate, there's no "combine on a tangent" feature in Illustrator. There's always...

The ability to do this was added to CS5. In prior versions you have to Object > Path > Outline Stroke and manipulate the resulting points. I've found that a quick and dirty solution is to remove fill colors, convert to outlines and unite, ungroup and release compound paths on the result, then...

Just to throw out one more option for using custom brushes, you can change the opacity of the lower (darker) stroke to Overlay, create a brush with it and pull off the effect with a single brush. No groups or compounds required. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator...

I just remembered there's an override export command in the batch setting that may allow you do choose a new path for each batch without having to re-record the action. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from...

Every document object has a .path property which points to its location. If you pass that path plus the new name to the saveAs() method, you should have no problem. If I had more time I'd whip up a script for ya. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have...

It's a long standing Adobe mystery. They execute to perfection many needs of their target industries and yet miss completely obvious features. They should hire me as Head of Unification. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything. @ask_illustrator "Great spirits have always encountered...

Go to File -> Scripts -> SaveDocsAsPDF You can find the .jsx file in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Presets.localized/en_US/Scripts/SaveDocsAsPDF.jsx if you want to see how its done. You can just alter the save options for other formats. Follow me on twitter or just ask me anything...

The Actions panel has a batch option in its fly-out menu. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein

Try just using the pencil tool to modify the shape of the S. You wont get exactly what you want at first but the Smooth Tool (found underneath the Pencil tool shelf) will take care of that. Just select the shape, then with the pencil tool, start drawing the desired modification. It will modify...

Place a circle on top of your shape and give it a radial gradient. Change the transparency of the new circle to "multiply". Play around with the center point of the gradient and its steps until you get something you like. You might even use two stacked circles for multiple hot spots. "Great...

Make sure the shapes that make up the grid are grouped. Now there are two ways you can "mask" the grid in the shape of the circle. Just depends on how many shapes you want to maintain. 1) Start with the circle placed on top of the grid. Duplicate the circle and move the copy out of the way...

If the child is a MovieClip, give it a public property, then from the parent assign a value to that property. If you do it with a getter and a setter, you can automatically react to the assignment. //Child MovieClip public var myProp:Number; //Parent Display Object myChildMovie.myProp = 10...