how do I change the colour and keep the gradient?
I've downloaded an EPS from Shutterstock with a series of icons that look like buttons and would like to change the colour breakdown, but keep the shading/ button 'look'. Please can you show me how?...
View ArticleHow to add prefixes and suffixes (e.g. %,$,£...) to graph column total labels?
Adding prefixes and suffixes like the percentage sign, degrees, currency and other units to Illustrator graph tool Axis labels is relatively easy: you go to Object > Graph > Type then Value Axis...
View ArticleStop illustrator's graph tool from flipping negative labels?
I'm hardly the first to have issues with Illustrator's (CS6) creaking elderly graph tool, but this one is just silly. It seems like any time you add column total labels to a chart with negative...
View ArticleIllustrator bar graph ticks forget formatting when Value Axis set to top side...
This is what looks like a really annoying bug (Illustrator CS6, 16.0.4, Mac - Lion). It's strange so might be the result of something else, if anyone has any ideas please let me know because it's...
View Articleautosave in illustrator CS6
Hi , Is there an autosave feature in Ilustrator CS6 like there is in Photoshop CS6 ? Thank you !
View ArticleCan we have custom properties with adobe illustrator items?
Is I am able to add my custom property with the any kind of item in adobe illustrator ?. Examples pathItem have location property like : pathItem.location = some value but I want to write my location...
View Articlehow can be create a property grid for adobe illustrator?
Hi all,Actually i want to create one custom plugin for the adobe illustrator where i can show all the properties of the selected item (exp : path item, text frames, or placed images). This is very...
View ArticleIllustrator CS6 - Merge Swatches no longer functions as action.
My coworkers and myself have recently updated to Illustrator CS6, but one glaring issue we are currently dealing with is the loss of this feature. Manually invoking the 'merge swatches' command from...
View Articleadding/merging non intersectng elements.
I've got a question that I have for a few months. I know this was possible in CS3 but since CS4 I think it has been deleted. I'm Struggling with the follwing:- Let's say I have 5 elements that are NOT...
View ArticleAnyone use TypeDNA plugin for CS? What does "Family View" do?
Hi Have just installed this product for CS6, but the Family View setting at the foot of the TypeDNA window confuses me - I thought it would group fonts by family, but it just opens up a new sidebar...
View ArticleError loading plugins DxfDwg.aip and PNGFileFormat.aip when launching...
It was working fine and then all of a sudden I started getting this error. I have already reinstalled the software, changed the permissions to all of the files and folders and am running the program as...
View ArticleHow to create this warp effect in illustrator
Hi guys!I have a vector that I would like to add a line of text to in another language...At the top of the image attached with have the word "News" which is in the Rockwell font. I would like to create...
View ArticleFailed to locate VBox runtime DLL
Hi, I am new and I wanted to install and launch Illustrator on my computer on which there is Windows 7.The installation succeeded but when I click then on the icon to launch Illustrator, an error...
View ArticleIllustrator cs6 brushes issue - smudges
How can I change the brush settings to avoid the smuding of brushes at the bottom? Hard to describe but the way the line goes into a thick curvy part. Easier to see what I mean from this picture,...
View ArticleSometimes when I close my Illustrator CS6 file it automatically saves without...
Of course, if I didn't want to save the file this creates a problem. It doesn't happen all the time, just ocassionally and I can't figure out why it does it. Any thoughts? I'm using an iMac 2.5GHz...
View ArticleIs Illustrator CS5 performance better than Illustrator CS6?
There is a pretty sharp decline in smoothness of panning, zooming, dragging elements around the screen in Ai CS6. Using both versions side by side on MacBook Pro i7, 8gb Ram, 10.6.8. Ai v16.0.0. The...
View ArticleIllustrator CS6 Creates Graphs it Can't Reopen?
Hi, I tried to graph a short series of very large numbers (between 0 and 3,000,000,000). I seem to remember that in the past it would refuse to graph numbers larger than a certain limit, but this time...
View ArticleCould not find linked file if server name of those linked files have changed.
Dear Bros, Our server path is \\server01 (Mapped P drive), recently all file of AI and linked file was moved to new server location \\server02 without changing drive letter because of critical needs....
View ArticleTrying to give a logo some 3D elements, but I don't think this is possible...
Hello, I've set out to give this logo some 3D elements for some pop. I don't want to just extrude the thing as if it was a cylinder, I want to extrue the Triniti symbol, circles, as well as the black...
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