[Craig Marshall]

Wow, I get to answer my own question!

Click and drag to the side pulls open the extender pallet.

Not what I would have expected, but there it is.

(I never thought frustration could be productive.)

Craig

[Craig Marshall]

As Richard said, you cannot create fonts in Illustrator. I do use it (and photoshop) to help in making fonts in FontLab Studio.

With variations, the workflow is basically:

1) Draw individual letters of new font on paper.
2) Scan and clean up in Photoshop
3) Place letter image in Illustator and create outlines
4) Import outlines to new font template in FontLab Studio. Clean up, size as necessary

This can be short circuited, you can draw directly in Illustrator, Photoshop or FontLab, but I find this gives me the greatest control and, well, it’s just comfortable for me to work this way.

Craig

[Craig Marshall]

I still haven’t got a solution in AE for this, but I did get a work around. Not very elegant, I know.

I imported the FLV file I rendered in AE into Flash, then exported that as as SWF.

I am sure I am doing something absurdly wrong in AE, I just have no clue as to what.

Any suggestions for the future will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Craig

[Craig Marshall]

Personally I swear by Boxxtech, their workstations are brilliant and there service is excellent.

I have gone to Vista 64bit SP1 and like it a lot, I am currently running 8GB of RAM and my motherboard allows me to go up to 16 (8 slots x 2GB).

You shouldn’t have any problems with the Adobe applications. I am not sure about the Cinema 4D, I run 3DSMax 64 bit on my set up.
Craig

[Craig Marshall]

Any thoughts on how I might do that, i.e., without scripts? Whenever I try bringing in the FLV I am only allowed choices of a variety of skins, but no import without them.

Also, any thoughts on why Exporting AE to swf yields only a black frame?

Thanks for the reply.

Craig