Kim Mackenzie
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Pathfinder should do what you need, though it’s hard to tell without seeing the logo. Probably Minus Front.
If you need your lines to be outlined shapes instead of stroked paths, select the path, then go to the Object menu and select Path and Outline Stroke.
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When the move tool is active, look at your options bar (it’s at the top, right below the pulldown menus) and make sure “auto select layer” is unchecked.
Auto select layer is handy when you want it, and annoyingly baffling when you don’t want it or don’t realize it’s on.
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More than one gradient per layer, no, but you can put additional gradients on layers above, then change the blending modes on those layers so they’ll modify the layers below.
If you group the layers (in the layers palette, option or alt click between the layers), then the layers above will be masked by the bottom layer.
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Try Select > Color Range and tweak the tolerance till it’s grabbing what you want.
Or when magic-wanding, go in the Options bar and uncheck “Contiguous.” Then you won’t have to click on each section of color to select it.
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Safest is to refer to a Solid to Process Pantone swatchbook, but barring that, Photoshop will tell you the closest PMS swatch.
Double click the foreground color swatch to bring up the color picker and enter your CMYK values, but don’t click OK.
Click the custom button.
Switch the pulldown to whatever swatchbook you need (probably one of the Pantone Solids – coated and uncoated refers to the kind of paper the ink will be going on).
See which swatch is highlighted – that’s the closest to your CMYK value.
For Solid Coated, I’m getting 343 for the green and 107 for the yellow.
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In CS, it’s under View > Hide Artboard.
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Command Zero (mac) or Control Zero (PC) will zoom to fit screen.
If you hit tab first to hide your palettes, it’ll zoom a bit larger.
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Also, look in the upper left hand corner where the 2 rulers cross and double click the little crosshairs. That’ll reset the 0,0 of your rulers and grids.
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Ask whoever is sending them to save them backward as an Illustrator Legacy file format.
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It’s a setting:
Bring up your transform palette, and look in the flyout menu – check the option for “scale stroke and effects.”