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Photoshop Vector Shape -> Illustrator Compound Shape/Path…!!

Mon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:13:24 +0000

You know… it’s probably a silly realization… but I’ve always copy & pasted vector shape from Illustrator to Photoshop, never the other way around. Today, I had to convert a shape that I wanted to use from Photoshop to Illustrator (CS4 by the way), I was so sick of tracing it. I mean what’s the worst thing could happened if I pasted something a vector shape from Photoshop to Illustrator, right? Get an error something, but to my surprise, it gives me a dialogue asking me whether I want to convert it to an Compound Shape or Path…

…son of a… learn something new everyday, don’t we now…? A little less deprived

Illustrator: Quick Object Duplications

Mon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:52:12 +0000

Quick object duplications in Illustrator:

This allow you to duplicate the same object with precise distance, fast and easy.

Illustrator: Exception Processing Message

Mon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:24:38 +0000

I ran into an interesting error this morning when I tried to open an Illustrator file from home to work. When I opened it up, I got this error:

If that happens, use Task Manager to “End Task” for Illustrator – then hit the “Cancel” button on the error popup. Did 2 minutes of google, this article came up. Even though it was for Flex, it seems to apply here. What happened is that I have the same file name image linked to the file, but with different extensions. One was in PNG, the other one was in JPG. The one on linked to the file was PNG, but I have a JPG in the exact same folder where the PNG should be with the same name. Boy, Illustrator started kicking and screaming just because of this. As soon as I created a new image with the same file name but with the PNG extension, it stopped.