I need to create a really basic Adobe Illustrator file on the clipboard that I can paste in Adobe Illustrator or Expression Design. I'm looking for code samples on how to programaticaly generate Adobe Illustrator Files, preferably from C# or some other .NET language (but at the moment any language goes). I have found the Adobe Illustrat...
I have an AI file. I paste it into Expression Blend and then export the XAML for use in my WPF project. Works for most of my files, but some export the XAML plus a seperate png file. What can I do so that the png is embedded into the paths of my image and not a seperate image? Can it be done? ...
I have an Illustrator file with linked images. I'd actually like to instead embed the images. I first have to know which files they are. How do I find out? I'm using Illustrator 9. ...
Hi, I can easily enough go from Adobe Illustrator and make a XAML file via the XPS Virtual Printer, but is there any way to import Vector graphics defined in XAML into Adobe Illustrator to continue working on it? Cheers Nik ...
I have been using the artboard tool in CS4 to crop portions of an image. Somehow the setting was changed (I assume) and now each image that is cropped has a black outline around where the crop marks were. How do I prevent this from happening? ...
I want to refactor a VB program into ExtendScript to automate some drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS4, but have a requirement to read from a database. Is it possible to read from a database using ExtendScript? How? ...
Is there a way to detect whether there are any rasterized components to an Adobe Illustrator file? Under normal circumstances such a file can be vector based (in which case it will scale well when the size is increased) but if there's a pasted image in the file, this of course won't scale. Any ideas? Any programming language implementati...
Greetings. I'm working with Avenza Mapublisher (an extension for Adobe Illustrator) to create an interactive map. When exporting the map it creates a series of flash swf files, an html file, and some javascript code. The above link shows the non-formatted version. As you can see the map loads very slowly because by default all the lay...
Is it possible to convert AI to PNG using PHP? ...
SVG rendering some paths without color, only black silhouettes, and only in FireFox. Using Jquery SVG , only some groups are showing up with color. I'm using Adobe Illustrator, exporting SVG 1.1 . Any ideas? ...
I have a fxg file created using adobe illustrator, Can someone tell me how to import it into flash cs4 stage... Regards, Dhana ...
I am attempting to read the saved file version of an Adobe Illustrator file created in any version of Illustrator. My code will read files created in Illustrator 10 and earlier currently. Files created in the CS Versions of Illustrator can be read but will not read far enough into the file to find the correct string that starts where t...
I am trying to produce a script that will: comb through all the layers and sublayers in a file then flatten each layer that DOES NOT have a layer inside of it. take the flattened layers and gets their POSITION RELATIVE to an item with a name containing the word "area" that resides in the flattened layers' parent layer, combs through al...
Hi, I use adobe Illustrator creative suite 3. Now there seems to be a problem. I can't save my Illustrations In the .pdf format, since this format seems to preserve the graphic quality this Is vitally Important to me. If I save the Graphic In .jpef /.gif or png there Is some serious loss of quality so I need to find out a way to get this...
Hi, I want to know how can one actually use a .svg file In a web page? Thanks, Parastar ...
I'm looking for a book to teach vector drawing for Flash/Photoshop/Illustrator. Would prefer if the book is up-to-date with the latest versions CS4. I found this useful tutorial here: Graphics Soft, Vector drawing, but I'm looking for a full book, or a learning DVD. ...
I have a set of AI files that I want to scale up. The AI files have a size of 200x200, and I want to scale them up to 400x400. As Illustrator does things with vectors it's not a problem, but now I want to do this for many AI files, and wanted to do it programmatically. Imagemagick's convert is able to take an "ai" file as input, but d...
I have an AI template that was designed for this page but not sure if i need a front end person or a back end person to make the bridge from design to an actual live page using the cake framework... i know there is some documentation on templates using cake, do we slice it up normally and then just add the content to the framework? ...
Hi all, I'm working on a flash project that incorporates a lot of artwork done in Illustrator CS4. Thus far, I've been copy-pasting directly from Illustrator into Flash, and when the images are fairly simple (which they have been until now), this goes pretty smoothly. But now I'm trying to bring in some larger and more complex illustrat...
I'm looking for PHP tool to edit *.eps or *.ai files? I need to add any new shapes or text to these files. Is there any way to do this? ...