Gradient? 2

[stephmaya]

This probably seems like a silly question, but a co-worker created a design for a mouse pad in POWER POINT. Obviously this is no good for print and needs to be converted into a vector file. I re-created everything except for the background. The background in power point is one of those pre-set designs, (blue with a gradient star look in the middle) What is the best way to recreate this? I haven't used Illustrator for a while and can't get the fasted way to recreate it to look almost identical?

Any help?

Thanks a lot!
Steph

 

[operamatic]

1 Create a circle (I'm assuming outside shape is a circle? if not whatever shape) fill with color, 2 create a star and center within circle (whatever shape) fill with whatever other color and, 3 blend tool from center of one shape to outside of other and it blends the color transition.

 

[wjgrayson]

This brings up a really important question. I work in an environment where managers create ideas in word or powerpoint, and want them mass produced, which usually means offset printing. If offset printers CAN'T create plates from PDF versions, is there a way to take basic word files and convert them to Illustrator without losing a lot of their formatting?

 

[blueark]

Many offset printers CAN create plates from PDFs. If yours doesn't, shop around. The problem might also be the way they're being saved. Distiller usually comes with a "press" setting that should create a good-enough quality PDF.

Converting to Illustrator is not recommended. If it's a multi-page document, Illustrator won't be able to handle it anyway without third party plug-ins. InDesign would be better suited for conversions, but I would strongly recommend using Acrobat on the Word file directly. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands...

 

[carlow]

hi wjgrayson,

one thing I found out is that the people who are use to create things in powerpoint can have theur project in a good way to be used as a graphical element.

In Powerpoint they can do a "save as" and the can choose a Tiff fle as their output. They can even adhust the dpi and the quality. A tiff file you can place in illustrator of you can open it in Photoshop.

This way the work can be used to create files that are usuable in printing environment.

carlow