I created a 40px x 40px image in Adobe Illustrator CS4. I saved as an .ai file and then tried to export as a PNG. Adobe Illustrator automatically crops the background and tightens the export to a rect around all the objects which if fine. In this case, I am not working edge to edge so my image is not quite 40px wide. But, unfortunately...
Osx or adobe fonts? I have some ai files and im trying to run them on another computer. I need to locate these font files. ...
hi, i have to work on skin in flex, but this time , i have to use vector images from adobe illustrator, this is very easy in case of adobe photoshop, as we have .png files, just import them in flash and make them a movie clip, and u r done with the skinnning but i m facing problem when i m copying images from adobe illustrator in to the...
Hi, I am looking for a convenient way to export every images found in an AI file. I don't know the AI file format specification, but I guess that if a place a PNG image in an Illustrator Layer the bitmap data of my PNG is still there somewhere. Is there a tool / SDK / API that you could recommend to perform this operation without open...
Hello! I'm developing a project that produces SVG files with custom embed fonts. SVG font definition I compose as SVG font tag with help of http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator or Batik SVG Toolkit. The resulted SVG file I try to open in following applications: Adobe Illustrator CS4 - text has default font and message notice...
I'm creating a Custom Google Map based on an image in an Adobe Illustrator file. I need to cut the file into 256px x 256px PNGs to feed into the Google Maps API. You can write scripts to automate tasks in Illustrator using ExtendScript, a modified version of JavaScript. I found one example of a script for Photoshop that makes tiles ...
I am working on a site where there is already an existing text-only navigation bar but I wanted to create buttons to give it more interest. So I created some in Adobe Illustrator CS2 and saved them as jpg. For each button I created an up and down state. I thought it'd be easy enough to just insert them into Dreamweaver but that hasn't be...
Is it possible to write a script for Adobe Illustrator or some other tool that will read the contents of a number of PDF files and convert all the RGB colours to CMYK? If so, could somebody please point out some of the steps involved, or where to find more information on this? ...
Hi all, I have a vector object in Illustrator CS3. For the sake of simplicity, let's say it's a rectangle. It has been "3D-rotated", and now appears to me to be a slightly skewed parallelogram. Of course, this 3d effect could be discarded at any time and it would appear to me again in its true shape, a rectangle. What I want is for m...
What are the alternatives to process illustrator files or PDFs into XAML. My Current workflow works like this: Open the PDF file in Adobe illustrator Save the file as .ai (Adobe Illustrator) file Open in Expression Design Do some processing, mainly separating elements to layers and removing unneeded parts. Save as XAML Add XAML to B...
I'm searching for a library that will allow me to perform graphical manipulations on SVG files. By "manipulations" I mean things like: Merge two overlapping shapes into a single shape Find the geometric center of a shape Draw a copy of a shape that is 25% of the original shape's size ...and other sorts of things that one can do in I...
I've been working a lot with Photoshop .psd files recently and have been bouncing back and forth a lot to ensure colors look just right on the iPhone. Can anyone offer some tips on calibrating macbook/apple cinema displays in regards to keeping color consistency between Photoshop, the iPhone simulator, and physical iPhones? ...
Is Adobe illustrator good for drawing UML diagrams? I saw some architecture diagrams of Google Chrome in their website. Have you ever used it? Is it better than Visio? ...
Hi, I need to have project in .cdr format but I don't have Corel Draw. Is there any way (like for example convertion .ai (Illustrator) file to .cdr) to get .cdr file? Thanks in advance for any help! ...
hi gurls and boys! I would like to save an illustrator file as a pdf file but in such a way that could be opened both in acrobat and illustrator but non-editable in illustrator - I wouldn't want my layers, shapes, lines, etc to be accessed to and modified. I thought I could do this by unchecking the option "preserve illustrator editing...
I dream of being able to use Illustrator to create my vectorial objects and export them as quartz paths. Is that possible? It needs to be as Quartz paths because I would like to be able to fill the paths with colors, gradients, etc. How do I do that? Is there a way to export (?) from illustrator or such apps and import paths on Xcode t...
Hi, I'd like to start some little private social network and I'd need a web design, I looked throughout themeforest but did not found one. (There's only blogs/portfolio templates). Do you know any good place where I could buy a pre-made social network html template? Thanks! ...
Hi all, I export a .swf skin file from Illustrator. (For my test i create the default Flex Skin Palette from Illustrator and I export it to .swf file.) Flex Builder side, the import is successfull (create automaticaly a CSS file). But, all my components are a default position problem, that is to say, for example i have a button in my ...
i have a vector illustrator file with all the counties of california as distinct paths. i need to have these counties be links to other pages online. is there a way to automatically generate an html imagemap from this file? illustrator provides an export as jpg function that has options for polygonal imagemap shapes, but it isnt working....
I have a client inquiring about developing a Cocoa application that would open Illustrator files. How viable is this in your opinion? How closed is the format? I can't seem to find any useful information on Adobe's site. Thanks in advance! ...