John Mensinger
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I may be wrong, but if I understand you correctly, what you’re trying to do is impossible. I’m reading that you want any text spilling over into frame 2 to take on Paragraph Style 2…automatically, (while text remaining in frame 1 retains Paragraph Style 1).
A paragraph style is applied to text bracketed by paragraph marks, and I can’t find any way to affect it via a frame-break. I speculated that it might be doable by setting up separate object styles for the two frames, each of which specifies a separate respective paragraph style, but none of my experiments produced a working model.
If you find a way, please do post it back here.
John M:
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It’s true that Ctrl+Alt+I will bring up the Image Size dialog, which actually shows you the size of your image canvas, or the overall image size.
If you want to get the size of just a single layer’s contents, (which could be very different from the image size), Ctrl+Click the layer’s thumbnail in the Layers Panel to select all of that layer’s non-transparent pixels. Now look at the Info panel to get the layer content’s size in pixels…
John M:
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Within the Creative Suite, you’ll be able to work together seamlessly cross-platform. If you choose and agree on a set of Open Type fonts to use exclusively on joint projects, you’ll have no font compatibility issues.
John M:
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I think I know what you mean, but I don’t think there is a one-click solution, like simply selecting a layer blend mode. You may have to do some manual touch-up on those edges. Another option is to experiment with the “Blend If” slider settings at the top level of Layer Effects.
Actually, the real answer is that you’d be best off obtaining a vector copy of the logo. Although a vector copy might not seem readily available, just about every logo in existence was initially created in vectors, and exists in vectors, somewhere. Often you can get them from various online sources, like https://www.allfreelogo.com/. Other times you might have to go to the company’s web site and mine it for PDF documents, (financial reports, press releases, brochures, etc.), that contain vector logo graphics.
John M:
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Record an action:
Select All
Delete
DeselectAssign a function-key shortcut to the action.
John M:
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Using the Live Trace preset, “Hand Drawn Sketch” will get you the “centerline,” (an old Adobe Streamline term), trace style you need, however you’ll still get multiple paths to clean up. After tracing, use the Expand button, then with all selected, Object > Ungroup. You’ll see now that any “fat” portion of the wave is simply an extra little path segment you can delete, and the main wave form will remain, though it too will be in segments you’ll have to connect up using the Join command.
It’s far from a one-click solution to your problem, but it gets you closer to the desired result than you were. Perhaps someone with more Live Trace experience will chime in. If I have any breakthroughs, I’ll post ’em.
John M:
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Jake, after drawing your closed shape with the brush, use the Pick Tool, (black arrow) to select it. Then, click the Fill side of the Fill/Stroke proxy at the bottom of the tool panel to bring it to the front, making Fill active. Then choose a swatch or set a color in the color panel.
John M:
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I’ve not heard of any scripts that automate such extractions. Seeing as no two heads are the same, it is indeed a subjective process.
It’s possible your artist is simply one who is not suited for production work. Some are too meticulous for it, and don’t have a real sense of time-is-money. Perhaps if he or she posted here with a description of the technique(s) employed, a time-saving tip or two might result. Or, you may just have to assign the task to someone who can do it faster.
John M:
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From the Channels panel menu, choose Duplicate Channel.
In the Duplicate Channel dialog, under Destination, Document: choose New.
John M:
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Firstly, you should check with your print shop regarding whether they’d want you to tile it. I suspect they’d rather a PDF of the single card, and they’ll do the tiling in accordance with their sheet size, cutting equipment, etc.
If you must tile it, export the single card to PDF, then set up a separate Indesign file in which you’ll place the single-card PDF multiple times on the page—manual tiling, if you will—then export that page as your tiled output.
John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor.