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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:47 pm in reply to: Envelope distort but on each Individual character

I don’t think that’s going to happen. Your workaround is the only way to do what you want that I’m aware of.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Just started using Illustrator, having some problems

For the Stroke problem: your stroke is on top of the Fill. So, of course it will obscure the Fill the wider you make it. Use the Appearance Panel and reorder the Stroke so that it appears “below” the Fill.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:43 pm in reply to: What’s the rationale for PASTE being offset?

I believe the offset is there to make sure that the duplicate does not cover the original.
When users Duplicate something, and nothing appears to happen, they may thinking that the function does not work.
With the offset, there is no room for confusion. You see the duplicate immediately.
(I’m with you though. 99.999% of the time, I need my duplicates in the exact spot as the original.)

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Unable to paste an image inside a shape

I could probably help if you show an image of what you’re talking about.
I don’t get it as is.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:33 pm in reply to: user defined scale?

You can enter simple mathematical formulas into the height and width fields and Illustrator will do the math for you.
In your case, take the building that is 1000 feet tall.
Pretend it’s 1000 inches tall.
Draw the rectangle. And then in the Properties Panel, find the Height and enter in 1000*0.002
Your rectangle will now be 2 inches tall. And you can label that anything you want.
Use the same formula for the rest of the heights of the other bldgs. Just alway enter the Height followed by *0.002

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Mixing two objects – Might be a PS Technique

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but it seems to me that you should break that text up into separate letters instead of one word. Then you can place some of the letters behind the snake, and some in front. This will make it look like the snake in weaving through them.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Illustrator [Creating Compound Shape from ALT – Intersect]

Ah, just watched your video. I really don’t understand what you are trying to do.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Illustrator [Creating Compound Shape from ALT – Intersect]

I’m not sure if I’m helping since I can’t see what it is you are working on.
So, you have a white “eyeball” shape with a White Fill and No Outline.
And over that you have an “iris” that is presumably in color and has a Black Outline.
If so, there is no reason why these two shapes would be combined into a Compound Path.
That’s not what that feature is for.
If anything, you need simply group them together. If anything.
Now, if the “iris” is meant to get clipped by the bounds of the white “eyeball”, then I can see your problem.
And the way to fix that is make a Clipping Mask instead. One shape will contain the other.
Select the white shape, bring it to the front so that it is over the “iris”.
With both selected, goto the Object Menu and select Clipping Mask / Make.
The colored iris will now be masked within the white shape.
The white shape will loose its color fill because it is now a Mask.
But you can add it back again.
Select your new Clipping Mask (eye) and then look to the Control Panel at the top. It should say “Path” on the left. And you will see 2 Target buttons. Click on the one on the Left (Edit Mask) to select it, and then, in the Appearance Panel, add the White Fill.
I know that’s a lot. Let me know if it helped.

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John Stanowski
February 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm in reply to: how to get rid off a thin white border around my logo after exporting gif from illustrator

Are you sure there isn’t something there to create that border?
What is that you are exporting? Does it have a background?
Is it vector? Can you select it and all of its parts individually while checking the Appearance Panel to make sure there aren’t any borders / outlines?
Can you show the gif to us?

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John Stanowski
April 29, 2019 at 9:26 pm in reply to: Using Photoshop with lower res images on super hi-res iMac

* how “others” deal with this

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