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I should be able to shear and implement perspective using this tool, but it refuses to do anything but rescale and rotate, as per a regular selection. I've looked in help, but no luck. file:///Applications/Adobe%20Illustrator%20CS/Illustrator%20CS.app/Help/help.html any ideas?

Bah! Why can't Adobe just get their act together and include simple funcionality in ID?!!! Why?!

^^^ Sorry, I should've explained it a bit better. Sounds like you are not familiar with the "Transform Each" tool. Imagine you have a grid of ten dots by ten dots, and you want each dot to reduce in size, but still retain their own position. Your method scales the dots down as a group...

Illustrator has a neat little function called "Transform Each", which enables you to change the scale or orientation of multiple, ungrouped objects at once. I can't seem to find a comparable feature in ID. Any ideas? Thanks!

Yeah, I know. But it'd be neat if they did have that feature. Wny can't they just integrate advanced vector drawing into a layout program - hence bypassing the need to import vector graphics. Why?!!

Would the improvement be similar for CS (one)? Which I am using.

^^^ Wow. You only upgraded your software - not any modifications to your hardware?

Thanks. I thought that would be the case. I thought it would be worth asking anyway.

Is it possible to somehow do this in order to create an accurate mask using an image to define the masked areas? Something along the lines of copying and image directly into the maks channel (I tried this but it doesn't work). Actually, I might try to just paste a single channel into the layer...

Sorry Itchy, that's not really what I mean. If you were to re-adjust the text box later, then all of your linebreaks would re-flow. The idea of the non-breaking space is to retain combinations of words, even after altering text boxes, adjusting fonts etc. Thanks anyway.

Sometimes I have to output print jobs in Illlustrator - It would be really handy if there was a feature that would automatically bundle all of the images and fonts used in the document into a single output folder - just as per the InDesign "Package" feature. Or if you are still using Quark...

How is this done? Is there someway I can import a pre-existing style (or set of styles) into another document? Thanks!

Does such a thing exist - similar to the Annotations tool in PS or the comments tool in Acrobat?

In InDesign there is a feature called "Nonbreaking Space" (Type>Insert White Space>Nonbreaking Space). This is the proper way to force a line break (as opposed to a soft return) - the benefit being that if your text is to reshuffle at some later point, you will not end up with strange...

Inevitably whenever I build a file which has a lot of points, Illy starts to lag considerably re. screen re-freshes, saving etc. Is their anyway that I can improve the performance of the app. in these sort of situation? (like "proxy" view on InDesign, for better performance)

Ok, I'll rephrase my question: How come my PDF looks fine onscreen, but the areas of my document which contain overlaid transparent bitmaps are partially not printing???

But wouldn't running the action take just as long as the two clicks req. for the alignment on both axis'?

BTW, im on a mac. (ie. True type is usually bad)

Yeah, I'm baffled as to why you would need to do this, too. Please elaborate!

I'll give that a shot - sounds like the trick. (common sense really) Thanks.