Les Nemeth
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Why don’t you just use Effect > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag?
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You can post the file if you want to.
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>>Annnnd…you jumped back in here to defend your post
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He said it doesn’t have to be realistic, so he don’t need gradient mesh. You can do realistic or stylistic shadings with simple gradients or colored shapes and masks, too.
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There are lot’s of shading tutorials, even videos for AI. You can even search youtube for a video or there’s a thing called…google or yahoo that can help you find tutorials if you enter the right keywords.
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If you read the little balloon help that pops up when you hover over the button it says “Alt-click to create a compound shape.”
In CS4 it immediately creates and expands the object(s) if you click on the button. You have to Alt click it to get a compound shape (editable).
In previous versions it used to be the other way around. I guess they re-invented the wheel.
If it doesn’t work like this for you, then you prolly have an open object. Maybe even 2 anchors laying on top of each other which are not connected to fool you as if you had a closed object.
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There are 2 kinds of cropmarks. One is just an effect, which you will find in the Effect menu. That will add 4 little marks to the document, but that is only for visibility reasons. Your document will not be actually cropped to those marks.
The use the “real” crop marks, you need to use Object > Crop Area > Make. That will create a crop region that will actually be recognized.
Make sure you won’t confuse the two.
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Scaling down or scaling up?
Not much of an info to go on, but some things comes to mind blind folded are:
– Do you have any masked/invisible items on the page that extends to letter size?
– Do you have your artboard/printable area set correctly?
– Do you have your crop area set correctly?
– I assume you double checked your PDF settings?That’s all comes to mind. Otherwise you can upload the problem file for a double check.
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This is an extremely simple illustration. It’s a simple call out box shape (or whatever you want to call it) and extruded using the 3D Effect in AI.
So as a third option to what Vince has mentioned (all of those suggestions would work), you could draw this shape, or if you don’t know how, just create the shape in Photoshop. It has a built in custom shape like this. Copy the vector shape from PS and paste it back to AI, fill it with a color, and use the Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel command. You will have much more control over what rotation/perspective/color/light you want.
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