Mike Gondek
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The post is from years ago, could have been CS3 or 4. Since this post they have added the width tool in CS5, which can be used in this process.
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I agree with you would be nice to have Ctrl an assignable key command, especially since most of the key commands are used up and really not much is left.
I deassign most all of the F commands the mac sues for monitor brightness and such, so I can use them for important stuff to me like F1 = merge colors, F2 = print, save, save pdf to desktop.
not wanting Adobe to sue those keys Adobe not to use those keys. Though I hear and understand your frustration, Apple needs to take leadership on some issues to have a stable system.My best suggestion is to use another key for that, or one of the apple key command like Command tab to cycle through open apps.
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Draw one line of each in CS5, copy and paste in CS6.
Or try copying this file form CS5 into CS6 location.
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Power duplicating
start with one petal
with rotate tool option click on point of rotation
enter a roation value, click copy
CMD D on mac to power duplicateTranform effect
Create an object (e.g: star), create a dummy object with filel and stroke of none
Effect >> Distort & Transform >> Transform
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To get snapping to work in Illustrator, you need to view >> smart guides. Once the guides are on you will be bale to snap. The default snapping tolerance, is pretty good for most purposes at 4 pts.
Align to pixel grid should only be used for web/video work, not print. The way this works is in the transform palette you can assign a preference of align to pixel grid to each item. In the flyout menu of the transform palette is ” Align New Objects to Pixel Grid”, when this is on, that basically check the align to pixel grid box for each new time you create.
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You can use the eyedropper, to pick up appearance attributes like that. Yo must though first double click on the eyedropper, and then check both the appearance checkmarks.
There is one more thing yo ned to know is that this will copy appearance attributes at the object level, but if you applied extrude & bevel at the group level , you will need to drag and drop the little icon in the appearance palette, and drop that . You can tell if an attribute is assigned at the group level as you would see the word group, ratehr then the word type as in my example below.
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The limit on perspective, in 3D Extrude & Bevel is 2000 points.
To get your extruded type to go to a single point, you will need to expand the appearance, lasso select the bottom half of your extrusion, then scale smaller.
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Got it to work, but the detail still is not that great even after going to 300 dpi. Thsi program might be good for web/multimedia graphics.
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Never tried pathstyler, and their newest plug-in tryout did not work with my CS4.
You can try changing your Effects >> Document Raster Effects Setting to 300dpi.
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effect >> 3D >> Extrude & Bevel
position: front
bevel: rounded
extrusion depth: varies: try 4
bevel depth: varies: try 2ENJOY!
