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  Import a “vectored object” into Zaxwerks?

  Posted by Steven Wills on October 20, 2007 at 11:17 pm

  (This is a cross post due to my frustration and time limitations)

  I’ve downloaded the demo of A.I. to use with Zaxwerks (www.zaxwerks.com) to make a 3D animation (while waiting for my copy to arrive) and have done a live trace of a simple 3 color drawing. The live trace works, well but I’m not sure how to proceed to get it into Zaxwerks. Whenever I try and import it into Zaxwerks, I get a message there are no useable vectors to work with. I know something is missing or not being done right but I don’t know what.

  I have tried to save it as both a .eps and a AI file for import without success.

  Do I need to copy the vectors to another layer? Do I need to copy & paste into another layer and remover the 1st layer with the image? I can see the vectors and save them but without success. What is the last step I’m missing here?

  Even after reading the Adobe WOW book, his has been very frustrating, and my time to complete this project is drawing near but once I get past this step I should be fine (I hope).

  How do I save just the “vectored object” (to a file) to import in Zaxwerks?

  Steven Wills replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Jon Okerstrom

  October 22, 2007 at 1:17 am

  Hi Steven,

  Be sure to turn off compression when you save the file. That should do it. One caution: live trace can create paths that are way more complex than they need to be. Invigorator and ProAnimator both do best when you used filled solid shapes. I recommend putting individual shapes on named layers and importing the file using layers, becauuse it’s easier down the road. Also, avoid blends and bit-mapped elements in your Illustrator file.

  Does this help?

  Jon
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  Steven Wills

  October 22, 2007 at 12:51 pm

  Thanks Jon.

  Compression IS turned off.

  I’ve sent you my AI file to examine and hopefully you can tell what is wrong with it.

  Thank you.
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  Steven Wills

  October 22, 2007 at 1:13 pm

  My email to you bounced.
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  Jon Okerstrom

  October 22, 2007 at 5:59 pm

  Shouldn’t have.

  jokerstrom1 (at) mac.com

  Jon
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  Steven Wills

  October 24, 2007 at 8:47 pm

  It seems there were some compatibility problems with importing with my older version, I have upgraded both Zaxwerks and AI…and all is fine now.

  I KNEW it had to be something simple.

  Thanks for the assistance to all.

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