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Hi, I'm working with two maps, one of which I'm trying to overlay over the other. However, the vector map to be overlayed is too big and can't fit in the illustrator work area(i.e. if you zoom out all the way, the white box.) Now I tried clipping the vector map so that it just showed the...

Hi, Simple problem here. When I create multiple art boards and choose an option of say 6 columns and a largeish number of boards, say 30, the file opens up with 9 columns! The first has the number of boards I imagined it would have.. the rest, it starts to drop down to fewer boards in a...

Solved my own problem with a plugin. Betterhandles does exactly this, and has some pretty decent options. sadly it has a really short trial limit

Hi, I've just traced a plan of an area from a raster and want to use the newly traced buildings for a composited plan, but all the buildings are a bit bowed due to the corners all being bezier corners (i.e. the curve corners with handles). Now, I can convert each objects corners to standard...

Hi, just a quick question regarding CS4's art boards. I've done a number and have realised that I would like to move an art board into a different place within the layour of about 16, is there a quick way of moving the board and its contents or do I have to arrange them manually?

I reckon the best method for doing this would simply be to use the 'pen tool' With this if you hold and drag you can create curves which can be modified by adjusting the handles which define the curve. Using this method you could simply open that image you've attached and draw over its outline...

What's the best method to take autoCAD drawings to Illustrator, I've been trying to use PDFs but hatch appears to be brought into AI as a large number of lines that imitate the hatch but create an incredibly large and slow file. Dunno if I'm creating my PDFs wrong in some manner but they're...

Hello! I'm very new to Ai but I'm a super experienced in AutoCAD. I've produced an image and since the colours seem awful in AutoCAD I've decided to have a go in AI but when I'm selecting the red area, which I'd like to recolour, it appears to be triangulated sections, which would be fine...