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  1. RickWolff

    A cornucopia of LM2 gripes

    I'm an animator, just trying to put a narrative movie together. No interactivity, no fancy features (or so I think). I have the following bones to pick with Adobe, and wonder if you do too. Are you ready? 1. Since it's an Adobe product, LiveMotion favors importation of vector drawings in...
  2. RickWolff

    target=_blank not specific enough

    Thank you. #2 was worrying me more than #1. Regarding #1: Oh, okay, what's the JavaScript? Note: I'm working with Dreamweaver 3, but I'm not afraid of code ... very much.
  3. RickWolff

    target=_blank not specific enough

    I have a main page with links, each link opening another page in another window, without closing the first window, and scrolling to an anchor. Yes, I used _blank in the link, and my anchors work, but I'd like to be more specific in two ways: 1. I'd like to tell the second window using HTML (not...
  4. RickWolff

    How can I create interior glow / fade in irregular objects

    I assume that what you want is an object light blue toward the center, dark blue toward the edges, and a feathered edge between the two. Here's what you do (assuming you have Illustrator 9 or 10): 1. Color the object the dark blue. 2. With the object still selected, go to your menu: Effect ->...
  5. RickWolff

    Any information about cross platform fonts?

    What version of Illustrator? You may have to upgrade.
  6. RickWolff

    Converting A/W from Quark to AI9

    You must first save the page as an EPS (File ->Save page as EPS), then open that EPS in Illustrator. You will notice that all your text lines will be broken into little bits of type 2-3 letters long, so make sure you do text editing in Quark.
  7. RickWolff

    Music syncs in Flash Player, not in IE5

    I'm attempting to synchronize some animation (really just pop-ons) to coincide with some stabs at the end of a piece of music only about 10 seconds long. I used a tool on the Mac called Sound Studio to find to the hundredth of a second (convertible into frames) when the stabs occur, since I...
  8. RickWolff

    Photoshop 7.0 and Mac ibook

    Every product Apple has called iBook (including the orange and white clamshell) can run the current operating systsm, OS X (10), and the earliest ones had OS 9 pre-installed. Photoshop 7 works best in OS X, but will run fine in OS 9. There is nothing else missing in the iBooks that desktop boxes...
  9. RickWolff

    new to AI 9 - drawing a quarter circle

    In AI 9, while clicking on the Pathfinder buttons, the alt (option) button doesn't help or hurt.
  10. RickWolff

    Illustrator to Pagemaker

    If it's all the artistic attributes you want to save (color, typeface, effects, styles, etc.), what you want to do is not "cut and paste" so much as "save and place." Remove elements in the Illustrator document you don't want to have appear on the PageMaker page, and save...
  11. RickWolff

    Spot colors from PS to Illustrator

    The advice I gave you assumes that you've already done what Jaquan told you to do, and you have a Photoshop doc with a spot channel. Do what he/she says first.
  12. RickWolff

    Need Help

    Recent threads on this forum entitled "Logo Designing" and "Converting Raster to Vector" describe how to use Illustrator features to make a vector version of your logo. They're all okay, but nothing beats going back to the designer of the logo and asking for the original...
  13. RickWolff

    Spot colors from PS to Illustrator

    I can suggest something I think I tried once. Please, if someone gives you a less arcane suggestion, try theirs first. I do not guarantee success, but it beats twiddling your fingers. Break the Photoshop doc into two pieces: • the regular CMYK without the items in the fifth color • the fifth...
  14. RickWolff

    Illustrator v. Freehand

    Get specifics on just WHAT advantages Freehand + Dreamweaver have over Illustrator + Dreamweaver. Sometimes the compatibility streamlines are just hype. And then, since we're Illustrator lovers here, Don't forget to tell us what you've learned! There's no reason these threads have to be all...
  15. RickWolff

    Object snaps back to origin after moving it?

    Another slim possibility: If you're on a Mac (certainly on OS 9, possibly on OS X), and you're trying to move the object so far in a direction that the mouse icon passes the edge of the Illustrator window, you've invoked a Mac feature that allows you to store your selection on the desktop as...
  16. RickWolff

    logo designing...

    My rule of thumb while designing logos is, design for all the different ways somebody may choose to render it. I make a logo that is at least possible for a sign maker's plotter to cut into vinyl shapes. Meaning, no strokes (they're converted to outlines), all objects merged, gaps in between are...
  17. RickWolff

    Resuming a freeform (pencil) path

    Ah hah! Your advice only works when I have the tool preference "Edit Selected Paths" on. That is the factory default, I think. I used the pen tool early on when we first got the tablet. I carefully drew a shape, and the next stroke wiped out the shape! I said, "Well, I certainly...
  18. RickWolff

    Converting Raster to Vector

    In Illustrator, the Pen tool changes functions depending on what you put it near. If you have it hovering in empty space (not near a path) and don't have any open paths selected, it's ready to begin to draw a new path. If you put it near a selected path (not a point), it wants to add a new point...
  19. RickWolff

    Resuming a freeform (pencil) path

    I'm drawing freehand with the pencil tool and a tablet, most notably a road on a map. For any of a number of reasons (like getting to the edge of the tablet), I stop drawing, and lift up on the pen, which ends the path. Is there any way, such as a keyboard modifier, that will let me pick up on...
  20. RickWolff

    new user, joining strokes

    If the points you meet belong to two different paths, and one or the other path is in some relationship with other paths in your drawing, Illustrator will give you grief. make sure the objects are not in groups, or part of a shape masking something else, or part of a compound path. The averaging...

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