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  1. ChokingMyTrap

    3d text that looks like this?

    If your using an older version of Illustrator you could find a copy of KPT Vector Effects, works great for that. Used to love that plugin. Cheers
  2. ChokingMyTrap

    How to place more than one picture

    Sounds like you should be working with layout app ie. Quark or InDesign :P 500 imbedded images in an illustrator file just sounds dirty.. :P
  3. ChokingMyTrap

    QUARK 6 CANNOT MAKE PDF

    Go to your preferences, under the PDF settings switch your workflow from directly creating PDFs to creating postscript files. Then go File>Export PDF … save your postscript and distill. That’s how I do it anyways
  4. ChokingMyTrap

    Underscores with answers

    With the TypeTricks Xtension you can do custom underlines with whatever colour/stroke/shade/offset so you could have White text and a Black underline though I cant see a way of automating the use of it so you dont have to manually go through and changing everything which is a major pain in the...
  5. ChokingMyTrap

    Text on the inside of the path

    Put your text in like you have done, then use the 'Selection Tool' or the 'Direct Selection Tool', select your path, then put the cursor on the I-bar infront of the first letter, click and drag across the path, it will jump back and forth, inside path, outside path. Cheers.
  6. ChokingMyTrap

    Tiling a cad drawing

    Im using Acrobat 6 Pro, and same as BenRow.. in the page scaling pull down on the print dialog box there is Tiling options. If your using Reader you might be SOL. I think with Acrobat reader you can only Fit to page and Reduce Large Pages. If your using an older full version Acrobat without the...
  7. ChokingMyTrap

    Convert from word to Acrobat 7 pro

    What OS and what version of word are you using. Also what method are you using to create your PDFs? Im using Word X on my mac here and word has a limitation of 0.56" for the bottom margin and 0.25" for the top/left/right margins. If i ignore the error it gives me about my margins, when I go to...
  8. ChokingMyTrap

    Converting Text "Wordart Effect"

    Hey, here are some screen shots I found.. there in Chinese though haha but you get the basic idea KPT Vector Effects 1.5 And this was created with KPT Vector Effects
  9. ChokingMyTrap

    Converting Text "Wordart Effect"

    A quick way of doing it would be to use Kai's Vector Effects which was bought out by Corel (gag) and I think discontinued.. im sure you can find it online. For mac and PC but it never got ported to cocoa for OSX as far as I know :( It was a really handy plugin back in the day before Illustrator...
  10. ChokingMyTrap

    Increase size of 'tool windows'

    <Laughs> hahahahahahah sorry I had to :P
  11. ChokingMyTrap

    Huge files, slow response time! Help!

    Anothing thing you could do if the machine is really chugging, apple+y and switch back and forth from outlines view. If your really hurting that is :P
  12. ChokingMyTrap

    Huge files, slow response time! Help!

    Version 7, I believe had linking.. Now that I think if it linking was default when placing images in 7 & 8.. been a while since iv used 7. PDF Compatability within an AI files I dont think came in until Illustrator 10.
  13. ChokingMyTrap

    pointed lines

    Sorry, add this in, use stroked shapes. Stroke your solid shape, Set the Mitre Limit as above. Then after you can item>expand... then use pathfinder (Add to shape area) and make it a solid object.. if you need it solid that is.
  14. ChokingMyTrap

    pointed lines

    Use the direct selection tool, pick the point that’s at the end of the flame, then on the stroke settings window, increase your Mitre Limit. Value will depend on your lines and they way they curve, so keep cranking it up until you get what your looking for. Cheers
  15. ChokingMyTrap

    Huge files, slow response time! Help!

    Link your images instead of imbedding them. On the file viewer when you pick your image check off the link option, and keep it as an AI file until your finished. If you save it as an eps it will imbed the images. If you have a 110MB file of just vectors you got mad points and it most likely...
  16. ChokingMyTrap

    Suitcase Script I made today, because Suitcase Pisses me off sometimes

    I made a little applescript today to make a backup of my Suitcase prefs and then another one to restore them. Sick of all the randomness Suticase does with lots of fonts..no previews, fonts not uninstalling, fonts not adding, fonts just doing weird things cuz the app gets retarded. So today I...
  17. ChokingMyTrap

    Applescript to backup Suitcase prefs files, just not working right

    That script was no good, wouldn’t copy forks. Discovered the ditto command, heres the final working version incase anyone else wants to do this. I find Suitcase is horrid at calfing out, and doing weird things once a lot of fonts are installed. --Backup Prefs Script-- try do shell script...
  18. ChokingMyTrap

    Applescript to backup Suitcase prefs files, just not working right

    Nevermind, just figured it out try do shell script "mkdir ~/Library/Preferences/Suitcase_Pref_Restore" end try try do shell script "cp ~/Library/Preferences/'Suitcase Preferences'/* ~/Library/Preferences/Suitcase_Pref_Restore" end try
  19. ChokingMyTrap

    Applescript to backup Suitcase prefs files, just not working right

    Hey, Im trying to make an applescript to backup my Suitcase prefs, then another one to restore the prefs from the backup. Just not working right and im not sure what im doing wrong. It creates my backup folder but hangs on copying the files to it. --Applescript to backup-- try do shell...
  20. ChokingMyTrap

    You know what would nice???

    Hahaha, you just dont understand :) Yeah, removing that extra useless step would be nice and I could use it on many occatioins when im scanning peoples signatures in bitmap and its just that little bit off.. I feel your pain. They make a plugin to let you edits on 16 Bit images, think they...

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