198 Answered Questions for the topic Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator

05/14/19

Change background color of just one artboard in Illustrator CS5?
I'm not sure if illustrator supports just changing the background color of one artboard but what I am looking to do is have one black background artboard and leave the other five or six artboards... more
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05/14/19

Why am I only getting grayscales / monotones when applying colors in Adobe Illustrator?
When I try to change the color after tracing a `JPEG` image in Illustrator and expanding it, it becomes gray. I have tried lots of color changes but the result is always the same. **Why can't I... more
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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Acrobat Overlay

05/14/19

How to overlay text on Adobe Acrobat pdf file?
I have an Adobe Acrobat PDF file on Macintosh OS X Lion that I need to overlay some plain text on top of at a particular position relative to the original PDF. Previously I have created a... more
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Adobe Illustrator Latex Cs6 Font Management

05/13/19

How can I get LaTeX fonts into Adobe illustrator?
I am currently trying to add equations created with LaTeXiT straight into Adobe Illustrator CS6, but somehow the "font" changes. I've tried scrolling around the Internet to see if I could find out... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/12/19

What's the correct way to crop art when saving for web in Adobe Illustrator?
I need to save a bunch of illustrations for web use, and I cannot find any 'crop to art dimensions' option when saving them. I've therefore been creating a new artboard for each illustration by... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/10/19

How to align rotated shape back to 0 degrees?
I have a "rotation" issue with Illustrator. I've rotated some shape which has no horizontal component which I could align to guide, so I have no idea how to rotate the shape back to 0 degrees. In... more
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Adobe Illustrator Color Print Design Pantone

05/10/19

What does it mean when printers have told me my colour is not a Pantone colour, but in my file it is?
I've recently designed a cosmetic label for a client and I've given them the final file to have it printed at their designated printer companies.But a few have them have come back and said that... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/10/19

How to sample actual color of an area in illustrator?
When I place a few objects one over another, each with different colors and transparencies, so that they all overlap somewhere, how would I measure the color on this overlapping area? Similar to... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/09/19

Illustrator: shape dimension and resize?
Is there a way in Illustrator to know the exact dimension of shape in pixel and possibly to resize it down to different (but precise) dimension?
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Adobe Illustrator

05/07/19

Converting very old version of Illustrator?
I have a very large group of ai files that I want to convert to jpg, the problem is that the program that I'm using to convert doesn't recognize the ai files because they're old.the files start... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/07/19

how can I copy guides from one artboard to another?
I'm using Illustrator to lay out a multi-page pdf, I've set up some guides on an artboard and I'd like other artboards to have the same guides. Can I copy them over?
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Adobe Illustrator Alignment

05/06/19

How to align multiple artboards in Adobe Illustrator CS4?
I have a bunch of artboards in a file and I want to align them accurately, like the way I can align graphic objects with Align panel. The alternative is to use a grid and align them manually with a... more
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Adobe Illustrator Color

05/06/19

How to change just one color value for multiple objects in Illustrator?
When making and experimenting with color schemes in Illustrator, I usually use a few base hue values (H) and start playing around with saturation (S) and brightness (B). Since I like similar value... more
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Adobe Illustrator Anchor Point

05/06/19

How to know the first anchor point in a path?
I am in a middle of a website project to learn drawing for children. that project require me to know the starting anchor point for each path I draw. and if it is miss ordered I have to revers it.I... more
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Adobe Illustrator Color Swatches

05/06/19

Is there a way to add all colors used into the swatches panel?
Sometimes, when inspiration hits me, I start designing a document using multiple colors. Or I use the Blend tool to create a smooth set of colors for me to work with.But it always happens that... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/05/19

Illustrator filesize?
I'm using illustrator CS3 and when I save I notice too large file size for a small vector graphic.So to test I have just created a document 512x256px 300dpi and I draw a square. I save the file and... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/03/19

How do I disable or hide the pink background on missing fonts?
How do I disable or hide the pink background on missing fonts? I do not care that the fonts are missing. I do not want to install the fonts. I do not want to replace the fonts in the file; I want... more
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Adobe Illustrator

05/02/19

How to change the artboard size in Illustrator via batch script?
I worked over 80 hours on a school project, the last step was animating in AE, but because of a small problem everything looks jagged.I have around 6000 PDF's, and the solution would be to make the... more
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Adobe Illustrator Cs5 Illustrator Scripting

05/02/19

Run Illustrator script on multiple files?
Is there a way to make an Illustrator script run over all files in a certain folder and perform operations on these?I am using CS5 on mac.
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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Workflow Packaging

04/30/19

InDesign or Illustrator for package design?
I was debating with my students this week about which software to submit their files in for my package design class. A few advantages of InDesign I see are as follow: - The capability of creating... more
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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Export Shortcuts

04/28/19

How to get Illustrator export into shortcut?
I am an avid InDesign user and a big fan of shortcuts. In InDesign you can use the shortcut <kbd>cmd</kbd>+<kbd>E</kbd> to export items within InDesign but this feature is... more
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Adobe Illustrator

04/28/19

Can you flatten a clipping mask into a new vector?
I have a relatively complicated repeating vector inside of a clipping mask.There's a lot of parts that are not seen but take up a lot of disk space.I was curious if there was a way to... more
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Adobe Illustrator

04/28/19

How do I create an export batch script in Illustrator CS4?
How do I create a batch script that would export a set of AI files in CS4 to a png of a certain size?
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Adobe Illustrator Automation Adobe Indesign Cs6

04/28/19

Adobe Automation: Dynamic Text in Template?
I'm developing a template for my team's daily production needs, and every product must have certain consistent marginalia on it, such as date, product ID, title, subtitle, etc. Currently, this... more
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Adobe Illustrator

04/28/19

Convert outline to text in illustrator?
how can I convert an outlined text back to editable text in Adobe Illustrator?
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