Using Illustrator CS5 on Windows 7.
Using an OTF with over 100 alternatives.
My problem for instance: I can see at least 5 different alternatives for the lowercase "t". Each one labeled as salt, salt2, salt3, etc...but no matter which one I double click, Illustrator will only insert the first one labeled "salt." This is becoming super frustrating.
Thanks in advance!
Im designing a label using all 100%K text over a pantone 185 background. Some of the text is font and some are a drawn logos but all are 100% K until I export it as a .tif to use for digital printing. At that point some remains 100%K as it should but some of it becomes a dark grey. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
i also get a
"photoshopaip error" when i open it/.
when i open the font section of a project sometimes it crashes the program. working on from CS4.
Obect>Expand?
View>Outline?
Edit>Edit Colors
or
Select>All
Is it by dragging the cursor over the arrow at the end of the hidden tools panel and releasing the mouse button?
Hello,
I added a rectangle then inserted a grid into it. I did this to be able to align some text boxes. After I created the grid, I sent it to the back of the text boxes. After I aligned everything, I couldn't select only the grid without also selecting the text boxes too. I want to select the grid so I can fade it. I am aware the I can select the grid, however, by individually selecting each cell but I was hoping for a quicker way. Please advise?
Thanks
Hi There,
I hope you can help.
I'm very new to illustrator and I've been playing around and kind of teaching myself how to do things on it. I wanted to create a logo of a ship and ultimately went online and found some pictures and did an image trace of one I liked and expanded.
Now this image is pretty complex (because of the sails and also because the hull of the ship was coloured white whilst the rest of the ship was coloured blue) and I'm struggling with everything from compound paths etc.
The image is as follows:
Now I want the ships hull and the sails to be all black and get rid of everything else but I don't know how to make the hull one object to fill it. Also paths are all over the place, as you can see the ships hull is white against a black background/backdrop but I would like to get rid of the shadow and make the hull (in the same shape its in) into one object which can be coloured.
Its still in initial stages so at one stage I would like to edit the sails and add more parts but ultimately now it would be nice to know how to turn certain bits into an object so they can be filled or moved etc.
Can anyone help please? Once again I'm pretty new to all of this so this may be something really simple but I'd appreciate the help.
Many Thanks,
Dan
Hi, I opened two pdf files A and B in Illustrator and I tried to drag A on top of file B. However, I found the color of file A changes (became darker) after I dragged it to B. How I can fix this problem? Thanks!
I am helping troubleshoot a client that is having issues with Illustrator on her Mac (note: i am not an illustrator person, i am just assisting in troubleshooting)
After opening certain .ai files, she is able to link/relink/place graphics several times with no issues, and then after a few times (ranges between 2-10 times), "Place" or "Re-link" stops bringing up the browse window again.
On another file, one where the existing linked graphics (qty 5) were renamed, it asks to relink the first two and pops up the browse window, but on the third one, as soon as we click relink, it doesn't popup browse window, but opens the file with the remaining 3 graphics not showing up. We can then try place/relink/etc and nothing happens.
I have attempted uninstall/reinstall including removing the plugins folders and .plist files, removing recently-added fonts, clearing the font cache, disabling plugins, disabling extensions, but nothing appears to fix it. Install is being run over creative cloud, which is configure to keep the app up-to-date, so my suspicion is that a recent OS X or CC update caused the issue, however the user couldn't pinpoint to me how long its been going on. OS X is yosemite and is up to date.
My case no. is: 0215201960. When I open Illustrator CS 3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, it quits unexpectedly. I've reuploaded from CD and restarted. Same thing.
Not long after I switched over to Yosemite, Illustrator just stopped opening. Every time I try, it comes up with the error message, "Illustrator has quit unexpectedly" and crashes. I have absolutely no idea where to start. So I could use all the help I can get, and if possible, please describe any details/solutions as simply as possible! Thank you!
I love it, spend all this money to get this app and the Help menu is broken........
I'm running Illustrator CC 2014.1.1 on Win 7 pro.
So when you got to the Help Menu and pick "Illustrator Help..." it opens your browser to this page:
Which NEVER LOADS....
Or if you got the the Help Menu and pick "Illustrator Support Services..." it opens your browser to this page"
Which NEVER LOADS....
How bout fixing this.......
Does anyone else have an issue with illustrator being unable to render drop shadows on text in large files?
I have a new MacBook Pro - 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
During conversion of word documents into Ai, some of the words on some of the lines end up with a pinkish highlight. It also then throws off the word alignment some with a write over result.
Is there some obvious reason for the tinting on conversion. Is there a way to avoid the effect?
Is this effect symptomatic of some particular cause?
Thanks for your help with this, as this is new to me.
I'm trying to figure out how to make gradient borders for countries on a vector map in Illustrator. I'm aiming for something like this: but with the gradient borders being more pronounced, a stronger gradient for borders. Can this be done in Illustrator and what would be the correct effect to use?
I tried using the Stylize Inner Glow effect but the problem is that I get this result:
Not sure why this occurs, but the any layer I apply an inner glow to suddenly looks blocky or no longer smooth:
Thanks very much in advance for any help with this.
I have "Object Selection By Path Only" option enabled. Yet, I am still able to select the center of a hollow shape. This is very frustrating when attempting to marquee select objects over/inside hollow shapes and having selected larger shapes by accident. This is new behavior compared to older versions of Ai and is jarringly unexpected. If anyone could please enlighten me, it would be a huge help. Thanks!
Dear All,
how to find the font and replace another font using javascript [batch process] in illustrator?
i have 700 image file, it very deficult replace one by one.
regards,
.Suresh.S
Friend i like Adobe illustration instead of coral draw. I watch few tuts of adobe illustration and find this work very cool. Currently i am running a site WPKam and all content are owned by me and original. I want to use original images like content so coral draw not help me with tools. That is why i ask you professional please suggest me a graphics or videos site from where i can learn and work of illustration tools from beginning to advanced. currently i am looking for free tutus. lot of website provide tuts but they have only few and missing tools videos. please help me.
G'day
I've struck a problem where edited documents won't print using Applescript direct printing, instead generating a 'can't print illustration' error.
The error message is untrappable in Applescript.
My code, with the direct print commented out, is ...
Does anyone know how to direct print an edited document, please?
Regards
Santa
propertytheLargePagePrinter : "Quark Printer"
propertytempName : "test"
propertydiditPrint : false
propertyPreserveFileName : "This is the name part"
propertylargePaperSize : "A4"
myprintIllustrator()
onprintIllustrator()
try
setTempAttachmentNameto "(2015 03 05 121212Z)"
tellapplication "Adobe Illustrator"
try
activate
tellcurrent applicationtodelay 0.1
setaddBarCodetofalse
tellapplication "Finder"
setmytempNameto "This is a test" astext
endtell
repeat 2 times
try
tellapplication "System Events" totellprocess "Adobe Illustrator"
clickbutton "Continue" ofwindow 1
endtell
endtry
endrepeat
setxto 0
repeatuntilexistsdocument 1
setxtox + 1
tellcurrent applicationtodelay 0.1
endrepeat
setaddBarCodetofalse
ifmytempNamedoes notcontain "_UEI ftpSaving" thensetaddBarCodetotrue
setpto 1
ifaddBarCodethen
setpto 1.1
setbbtovisible boundsofdocument 1
setpto 2
setPaperSizetocrop marksofdocument 1
setpto 3
telldocument 1
setpto 4
setntonumberoflayers
repeatwithxfrom 1 ton
setpto 5
setlockedoflayerxtofalse
endrepeat
endtell
setpto 6
#
# Text Frame 1
#
makenewtext frameindocument 1 with properties {name:"AreaText", contents:TempAttachmentName, position:{(item 1 ofbb), ((item 2 ofbb) + 40)}}
setpto 6.1
try
makenewcharacter styleindocument 1 with properties {name:"BarCodeBox"}
endtry
setpto 6.2
setthesizeofcharacter style "BarCodeBox" ofdocument 1 to 10
setpto 6.3
apply character stylecharacter style "BarCodeBox" ofdocument 1 tothetext rangeoftext frame "AreaText" ofdocument 1
setpto 6.4
setthetext fontoftext rangeoftext frame "AreaText" ofdocument 1 totext font "IDAutomationHC39M"
#
# Text Frame 2
#
makenewtext frameindocument 1 with properties {name:"AreaTextTwo", contents:myPreserveFileName, position:{(item 1 ofbb), ((item 2 ofbb) + 21)}}
setpto 7.1
try
makenewcharacter styleindocument 1 with properties {name:"NameBox"}
endtry
setpto 7.2
setthesizeofcharacter style "NameBox" ofdocument 1 to 12
setpto 7.3
apply character stylecharacter style "NameBox" ofdocument 1 tothetext rangeoftext frame "AreaTextTwo" ofdocument 1
setpto 7.4
setthetext fontoftext rangeoftext frame "AreaTextTwo" ofdocument 1 totext font "Cochin"
endif
setpto 16
try
(*set printerName to my theLargePagePrinter as string
set paperOptions to {class:paper options, name:largePaperSize}
set jobOptions to {class:job options, designation:all layers} # , print options:printOptions}
set colorOptions to {class:color management options, profile kind:printer profile, intent:perceptual}
set flatOpts to {class:flattening options, clip complex regions:true, gradient resolution:360, rasterization resolution:360}
set printOptions to {class:print options, printer name:printerName, paper settings:paperOptions, flattener settings:flatOpts, job settings:jobOptions, color management settings:colorOptions}
#
# If this can't print, the resultant dialog box is unreadable
#
print document 1 options printOptions
on error errmsg number errnum
tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Error in direct printing illustrator document. " & errmsg & " number " & errnum giving up after 40*)
activate
tellapplication "System Events" totellprocess "Adobe Illustrator"
keystroke "p" usingcommand down
tellcurrent applicationtodelay 0.4
keystroke (character 1 of (mytheLargePagePrinterastext)) astext
repeat 18 times
keystroketab
tellcurrent applicationtodelay 0.1
endrepeat
keystroke (character 1 of (mytheLargePagePrinterastext)) astext
keystrokereturn
endtell
onerrorerrmsgnumbererrnum
tellapplication "System Events" todisplay dialog "Error in printing illustrator document. " & errmsg& " number " & errnumgiving up after 40
endtry
tellcurrent applicationtodelay 0.5
onerrorerrmsgnumbererrnum
setmydiditPrinttofalse
tellapplication "System Events" todisplay dialog "printIllustrator actual printing " & errmsg& return& errnum& " P = " & pgiving up after 40
endtry
endtell
endtry
endprintIllustrator
Hi All,
We all know that command:
app.activeDocument.save();
saves the document skipping all the dialogs and even alert that is popping out every time when you manually saving your file on a server:
My issue is that I am working on PDF files (with preserved Illustrator editing capabilities) almost all the time rather than .ai files, and everytime I use
app.activeDocument.save();
The .ai file is created.
My question is if it's possible to save PDF that you're working on same as you would manually 'Save' from the menu context, ommiting that annoying dialog about modified file?
Regards
Peter