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I switched from Fireworks to Illustrator because I thought it could do many of the same things while handling large files. I've been putting A LOT of work into an Illustrator file and now feel that I may have wasted A LOT of time and money with this program. Not a good feeling. I have a large...

I'm fairly new to Illustrator CS+ and am having problems with (what should be) a very simple matter (that I can do in Fireworks without any problems). My goal is to have undistorted text on a rotated arcing path. I have poured through the Help files and the Tutorial video and have can place text...

Ok, things are working again. The first "Subtract From Shape Area" worked fine. The second one caused all the colors to disappear. When I clicked UNDO, the colors came back. Instead of using more of that tool, I just dragged the shapes I wanted to subtract from the main object into the "compound...

Since my initial post, I've been playing with this some more. The Merge feature (mostly) works like I expect it to. The tool I'm using most to fix my problem is "Minus Back". I disassembled the "compound shape" that was giving me problems and am now using "Minus Back" to excise shapes from the...

I am an AI newbie and I think I'm doing something wrong. A little background: I am working on a very detailed file (a map to be exact) with thousands (maybe 10,000s) of anchor points. I was hoping to have more luck in Illustrator than I did in Fireworks (which resulted in HUGE files that weren't...

Thanks so much Andrew. That is an awesome solution!

I'm using Illustrator CS3. I'm trying to create a line that has a set width at one end and tapers evenly down to another width (or "0") at the far end. Preferably this would work across many anchor points... I've been searching for strokes/lines that are vanishing, narrowing, tapering, etc. but...