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- From: karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM)
- Subject: Re: Adobe Collectors edition - NeXT?
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:41:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.093654.5945@urz.unibas.ch>, frank@ifi.unibas.ch writes...
- >In article <30DEC199200553275@wccf.mit.edu> writes:
- >> I don't see Adobe Collectors Edition (collections of PS fills
- >They *will* work on the NeXT, but you will have to do some renaming...
- >
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- >Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67
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- That's what I understand from Adobe- they are sold through the usual Mac
- outlets and come as Mac format Adobe Illustrator files. (you can get
- samples from Adobe's FaxBack at 415-968-7701, doc # 1058).
-
- to use the patterns in Virtuoso, what i did is:
- open the .ai file in Virtuoso (Collector's Ed. samples are in the
- Illustrator /gallery files under patterns and arrows, and Virtuoso
- reads and writes Illustrator format).
- rubberband around the sample pattern you want (the medium-size
- example with the repeating elements and clipping box)
- ungroup multiple times
- select and lock the clipping box
- rubberband around again to select everything else
- cut it
- unlock the clipping box and select it
- paste inside
- copy to pasteboard
- paste in in the Virtuoso tile fill inspector
-
- this is necessary because Virtuoso fills can't have elements that
- are tiled already or are already EPS. cutting and pasting them
- between Illustrator and Virtuoso crashes Virtuoso. and you want
- to have only the repeating element parts inside the bounding box
- copied to your pasteboard. the arrows and borders can just be
- dragged and dropped and sized.
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- |Glenn Holm Internet:karuzis@wccf.mit.edu|
- |M.I.T Dept. of Brain + Cog. Sci. This VAX doesn't do NeXTmail |
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