On approx. 160 full-colour pages you will find everything necessary for successful, market-driven and fashionable collections: Colours (presented as original Pantone® colour chips), age group-specific garments.

Rachel Cooper – Design Director – Scantex Europe

Create a folder on your desktop into which you can copy the fonts.From the results window of your search, copy each font (hold down the Option key as you drag so you don’t move the files) into the folder you created on the desktop.

Open finder again and in the Finder, open the folder or disk that contains the fonts you want to install.

Select the font suitcases for the fonts you want to install. (For PostScript Type 1 fonts, select the printer outline files)

Drag and drop the fonts into the Fonts folder in the Library folder – DONE

To see what I mean, try the following. Select the Spiral tool, which is hidden under the Line tool. While clicking and dragging with the tool to create a spiral, press your Up Arrow to increase the number of segments, so the spiral winds further into the center. Or if you want to decrease the number of segments press the Down Arrow while drawing. More drawing tool tips to come.

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But that would apply the entire Appearance of the object. What if I wanted just the Effect? No problem! Select the new object and go to the Effect menu and select the very first listing, which in this case should say “Apply Scribble.” This first menu listing will apply the latest Effect with the same settings. Even faster, select the new object and use the keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+E (Control-Shift+E on PC).

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An astounding 19,714 Anchor Points in the art lead to an unintentional competition within Mike’s class. One student was determined to outdo his fellow student, so instead of dragging out handles to create curves with the Pen tool, he just clicked, and clicked and clicked to create lots and lots of corner points instead. I wrote back, “Your student should be aware that there’s a limit to the number of anchor points in an object. When an object is too complex, it won’t print. That’s why it’s called a ‘Limit-Check Error.’ One way to fix this unprintable file is to cut down the number of anchor points in complex paths, or to cut those complex paths in half with the Scissor tool (C) to limit the number of points in an individual path.

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I answered, “With something called Mapping. You can Map anything that has been saved as a Symbol to the surface of a 3D object. To create a Symbol of the wine label, I selected the artwork and dragged it into the Symbols panel. In the Options window that opened, I chose Graphic, and pressed OK. Then I selected the bottle contour, and went to Effect>3D>Revolve. After playing with the position and lighting, I pressed the Map Art button. In the window that opened, I located the surface onto which I wished to ‘paste’ the art, selected the label Symbol to Map, dragged the Symbol into position, and checked Preview to take a look. Then I checked Shade Artwork to shade the label with the same lighting as the bottle, and pressed OK in the Map Art window and OK again to ‘paste’ the label onto the bottle.”

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I responded “Yes! But take care that you choose the right settings. Go to File Save As and after selecting, Illustrator CS3 from the Version popup, check ‘Save each Artboard to a Separate File.’ And if you’d like to save some but not all of your Artboards, select Range and indicate which pages before pressing OK.”

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I said, “Sure, if you know the key. Start by selecting the object with your Selection tool (V). Next, hold down the Option key (Alt key on PC), then click and drag any bounding box point, and the object will resize from its center. Add a Shift key to the Option/Alt key, and as you click and drag in or out on the bounding box point, the object will resize in proportion from its center.”

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