[Mike Gondek]

Making the Miter Limit a smaller number will remove spikes, but Vintendo’s first suggestion is the best of changing the join and the cap to round.

If you are making logos like this with multiple strokes, it is best to use the appearance pallette to add multiple strokes to one path. A lot easier to do revisions adn more contorl once you master the appearance palette.

[Mike Gondek]

For CS2: Users/ [user profile]/ Library/ Preferences/ Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings

The exact location has changed depending on which version. You can boot photoshop, and then hold down shift, ctrl option immediately after to get the menu asking you to reset the preferences.

[Mike Gondek]

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[Mike Gondek]

There is no official correct procedure, but having managed the computers for over 350 creatives at an ad agency back at the turn of the millenium, I can outline for you how to set this up.

In fontbook disable as many fonts as you can, except you should leave the webfonts active (safari and a few other apps will thank you for this). Disbling them in fontbook will allow suitcase to later resolve FOND ID and other naming/family conflicts, and open and close fonts for you.

Make a folder called fonts on your drive (either in my documents, or even on the root level of the drive) and keep/organize all your fonts in that folder. I have folders for names of companies (eg: Bitstream, Corel, Font Co, Thirst, House, Emigre)and then I have folders by letters A to Z (this is just a proper way of doing this if you have many fonts, as the mac or even a pc begins to slow down once you have >200 files in one folder)

Finally open suitcase, and make set names that match your folder names, and then drag and drop each folder from your hard drive, onto a set in suitcase. You have now told suitcase the location of all the fonts in your collection, so auto activation can open them for you.

You may not have time to do all the organizational steps I suggested, but this will save alot of headache later for duplicate/corrupted/missing fonts. You may also want to test out your fonts by opening each of the sets you created, and then click through the menus to resolve font conflicts. This can save you headache later when you need to use a font.

Finally try to keep the minimal set open, as your machine will boot quicker and your font menus will pull down quiicker. nly make permananetn what you use often and open fonts as needed. realize tha you will have some fonts being opened through the application itself. Adobe stores fonts with the applications folder such as Adobe Garamond, luckily thsoe fonts are good and you should renumber other fnts if they conflict with fonts opened through your Adobe apps or system/library.

Fonts can be a nightmare, and a book could be written on the topic, hope this helps you out. Oh you also should do a find on your drive for .lst, and delete all those files. They get corrupted eventually the more you use fonts, and they will regenerate themselves when needed. This resolved hundreds of mac help desk calls by deleting those font list files.

[Mike Gondek]

This is done with llustrator CS2. Place the image into Illustrator. The choose
Object >> live Trace >>Tracing options

You will then be able to tweak your setting mostly for color and detail, then finally click the trace button to get yoru result. You can then use an expand command to get at the vector paths if you wish to modify them manually.

[Mike Gondek]

You can loose colors when saving to web, so you may want to overcompensate. Saturation can do this, but I prefer to duplicate the layer, and change the top layer mode to soft light, and then change the layer opacity down to about 30% on average.

You also may be seeing a shift due to hwo your color management is setup. Try turning it off and see if there is a difference.

Do you see the problem if you use save for web with 2Up (left in original, the right in jpeg)?

Please give some more detail, as there are so many issues, mac/pc, gamut, uncompensated color, color settings, file format, compresion level. What colors are you loosing (all of them or is it in the blue?)

[Mike Gondek]

Very easy. Create a new docuemnt, and then eable the xbox option “master text frame”.

In pages palette click on the page you wihs to chnage. Then choose the menu Layout >> margins and columns.

[Mike Gondek]

Works fine for me in PS CS2/ Try resetting your preferences. The font is probably fine since it works in your other apps, I have a feeling something in Photohsop is corrupted.

Does this happen at all sizes. I tried 17 px and all letter a-z A-Z.

[Mike Gondek]

https://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

I downloaded the unicode utilty from the page above. Hitting alt + brings up the utility, then I entered 0101, which is the unicode for

[Mike Gondek]

I had a post about a year back on this topic, btu will try to pass on what I remeber. You may want to add to your script:
Remove unused Swatches (pattern swatches add quite a bit)
Remove unused Graphic Styles
Remove unused Brushes

Lots of files repeatedaly have the same basic set of default items in them. Peopel dont realize that when they create a new illustrator file, that the file is lodaed with items from the default file.

If you go with .ai instead, you can save as and remove PDF compatibel (Will give you a really small file, but unfortuantely InDesgin wont place without the nasty PDF compatible).

Another serious option to consider might be the .pdf format. Depending on what you do with the files you will need to chsoe whetehr to go use ai, eps, or pdf. All 3 are vector and can be opened in Illustrator.

If you files are all vector logos, then you should be getting much smaller files. Mine average 110k as .ai. I believe I saved down to ai8 as CS1 & CS2 made the fiel larger with no benefit. PDF seems to get even smaller, and you get a nice preview in windows explorer.

I also added in my script from the align palette to center the logo on the illustrator canvas.