[Mike Gondek]

Good you got your problem solved, and got custom page sizes going.

If you hear of anything about learngroup let me know, I am trying to collect a judgement in Gwinnett against him. Beware of learngroup, the owner is dishonest and has taken money from students for classes not provided. He also runs up invoices/expenses with instructors and then does not pay.

Someone else put up http://www.learngroup.com to warn people about his criminal history.

[Mike Gondek]

The manual doesn’t tell you waht you really know so will try to help.

1)Draw a shape, set tthe stroke adn fill both none
2)Now go to the appearance palette and set your file and stroke colro
3)make the stroke thicker, notice taht teh stroke goes half in half out
4)Drag the stroke layer in the appearance pallette, underneath teh fill layer (notice teh stroke now goes outward)
5)Form the appearance palette flyout menu choose add a stroke. Make the stroke another color. Make the stroke thicker than the one obove it and your new stroke colro will begin to show will now notice the
6)Slect a stroke in your appearance palette. Effect >> Distort >> Pucker and Distort.
7) Drag that stroke in the appearance palette to the duplicate icon net to the trash can in the appearance palette.
8) Assign Effect >> Distort & Transform >> Transform (turn on preview and try changing every setting especially copies to a higher value)

Once you are familair with these basic options you can begin to unlock the power of the appearance palette

[Mike Gondek]

You are correct, I did find on the side of the box this is a mono Mike. Dont think that I will get an adapter, as I could do the saem in Adobe Premiere of duping a channel.

Is this a bad Microphone because it is mono??? It retails over $300.

I have to leave in about an hour to film, but will tripod the camera as close as possible to the speaker. Will do a test with and without the shotgun microphone, adn will decide whetehr to use the onboard or hot shoe shotgun mike.

Can someone tell me if I should dupe the single channel into stereo, this is going on the web and on DVD.

[Mike Gondek]

I believe CS2 is when they added being able to select multiple layers. You would have to link layers in CS1 to do a transform on multiple layers, or put them in a layer set.

Anyone else, please correct me if I am wrong, as I dont have CS1 and am going from memory.

[Mike Gondek]

Unfortuantely Adobe does not document well how to utilizie the massivley important feature of appearance, and appearance to me is as important to illustrator as layers are to photoshop.

If I could open a copy of your logo, then I could give you an exact answer but likely multiple appearance attributes are set to one vector path.

For example you could have a logo with multiple storkes using only 1 path with appearance

Light Blue Fill
4pt Dark Blue Stroke
8 pt White Stroke
10pt Black stroke
10pt Black Stroke (with a transform of 1pt right 1 point down with 8 repitions)gives you an extruded type look.

[Mike Gondek]

Trying another mouse will be a big help.

The mac also has a system preference for the mouse, give that a look to see if anything similar to click lock is there (with a setting for how long), and give your wacom control panel a look over.

[Mike Gondek]

Having trouble understanding how your file is currently built and why slices won’t work.

How about file >> scripts >> export layers to files

Though ther should be a way to do thsi by drawing slices, I personlly liek to do this having one file the dimension of the image I need, and creating extra layers on top. The reasons are: save for web gets slow when the amount of pixels in the image is, thsi way I guarantee that each image has the exact pixel width & height needed.

[Mike Gondek]

What does it say in the appearance palette when you have this selected? Might be an envelope group or the appearacne palette should give you a hint as to what your selection is.

Can you use expand or expand appearance on this logo?

[Mike Gondek]

Are you on PC or Mac?

On PC try control panel mouse, and make sure click lock is off.

If not that try resetting your prefs again.

Do you have a wacom tablet on this computer?

[Mike Gondek]

By the way if you are from Atlanta, do you know of the Adobe Training Compnay: Accelerated Learning Group

http://www.learngroup.net