'tis ever so fond, the memory from beyond the shores of the pond   ... View more

You are welcome, Maha.   ... View more

Maha,   You can work on a copy on top of the locked original as follows:   1) Hide the original; 2) Cut the copy at the spot where you wish the new stroke to end at the lower left (the J part); 3) Deselect, then with the Direct Selection Tool Click the end segment at the bottom of the D part;   Now you have two open paths to work with;   3) Click one of the end Anchor Points at the bottom of the D with the Pen Tool, then press P, then Click the other end Anchor Point, and switch to the (normal) Selection Tool; 4) Object>Blend>Blend Options, set the Spacing to Specified Steps: 1 and set the Orientation to Align to Path; 5) Select the open paths from 3) and Object>Blend>Make; 6) Object>Blend>Expand;   This ought to give you a stroke that works most of the way;   6) Adjust the end bit of the new stroke at the J part where it departs from a clean soft bend, using as few Anchor Points as possible, working with positions and Handle lengths/directions.   You can give it a try and show your progress/issues, still using the Insert Photos button which appears directly in your post.   ... View more

You are welcome, Lily.   I said As I (mis)understand it, and I did.   ... View more

excited Unicorn,   Adobeに問い合わせる必要があると思います   あなたの質問には日本のフォーラムが適していると思います。 https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0/bd-p/illustrator-jp?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all 日本人の友人にメッセージを送りました。   ... View more

Right you are again, Dave, and thank you.   The BBC News article has been further updated, with the word dark now in its right place.   ... View more

Incomparable, Trevor, most of all the last of the first.       ... View more

Milko,   Another thought:   If you look at the rotated stars, their visual/geometric centres are a wee bit within the circle.   This is because the centre of the bounding box is above the visual/geometric centre when straight for stars with an odd number of points.   When you turn them or create them straight, the whole set will be the same wee bit below the circle.   In order to avoid that (and also to have rotated stars visually on the circle), you can create a nostroke/nofill circle with a diameter twice the radius of the original star and snap its top Anchor Point to the top Anchor Point of the original star and Group them, then create the rotated set from that.   ... View more

Milko,   When starting over using a Blend, you can do as in your other thread over here, https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/blended-object-spine/td-p/15346884   Remember to keep Orientation as Align to Page: with Align to Path you will get the undesired rotation.   ... View more

Milko,   In addition to what Kurt said, remember to set the number of Steps to one less the desired number of objects; you can count the number when replacing the spine.   ... View more

Milko,   Starting from what you have, you can rotate each of them, or you can start over using a Blend to create them all straight as desired.   When rotating each, you can:   1) Select all but the top one You can use the Lasso Tool or ShiftClickDrag them, then use Object>Transform>Transform Each with a rotation of 360/12 = 30 degrees; 2) Repeat 1) excluding the first one to the right; you can do that in the expanded Layers Palette, within the Group if they are Grouped, by ShiftClicking it to unselect it (it will probably be at the bottom ofthe row of selected objects; 3) Repeat 2) until you have rotated them all.   If you have a number of objects that need to be rotated by a less nice angle, you can just inset 369/number to get accurate rotations throughout.     ... View more

Exquisite, Trevor.   It reminds me of the old Toyota Hilux commercial(s).   ... View more

BBC News UK England Yorkshire The suspicious persistent dark flood at Staithes Update: Brought in from Maryhill Glasgow for his outstanding experience in muddy cases, DCI Taggart is making notes on site.     Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Shannon,   Can you show the Groups expanded, showing what is actually contained in each?     Unknown to most, it is quite easy to directly show images in posts, hence the following general suggestion: Please show images by using the Insert Photos button (looks like moon over mountains) for each at the top of the reply box which makes everything appear right there in your post together with your text, rather than he more conspicuous Drag&drop attachment which requires helpers to open a new tab for each image and wait for its showing, then go back and forth; and if they just click it and wait for its showing and press the X to get back to the text, the image is gone so they have to open it again and wait to see it again. ... View more

Eliminateur, When you can make it OnShape or whatever, you must have other information than the lengths of the sides.   So surely you can make it at full accuracy with the help of Illy (job description Adobe Illustrator). She is very good at it and always eager to help. Just one angle will do. Below is shown a way to do it when you know the lengths of the four sides and the angle between two of them, Smart Guides being your friends, colours to enhance and discern: 1) The set to create it from: the two black paths being the the sides at the angle, and two red circles, each with diameters twice the lengths of the other sides, all placed loosely, with one of the sides at the angle set at the desired angle relative to the Artboard if any (otherwise you can just create it horizontally or vertically), and the the other side at the angle set at the same angle; 2) Move the other side from 1) to snap to the left end of the first one, then switch to the Rotate Tool and rotate it round the left end by the known angle (Alt/OptionClick the left end and insert the angle); Now you have the two sides placed with the known angle between them; 3) Position the two circles with their centres at the other ends of the paths from 2); 4) With the Line Segment Tool ClickDrag between each of the ends/centres and the intersection of the two circles, or similarly by Clicking with the Pen Tool (click P in between to start a new path); 5) Hide the circles and join the sides (you can copy the sides and hide the originals); this is not shown. When done, you can delete the circles. What have you to start with? It can be easier depending on what you have. With two known angles (wherever they are) you need no circles.       Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Right you are, Dave, sorry, it was a long watch.   Ship happens, as you have mentioned below:   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e6jp6z6lgo ... View more

Still just scraping along in a new sense, Dave; but it gets worse.   ... View more

I take it you should prefer this, Trevor, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun   ... View more

Thank you for sharing, Eliminateur.   I believe it is sometimes necessary to prepare DXF artwork to make it accessible.   At first glance, my impression from the expanded Layers palette was that each of the LINE instances was a Group so that it ought to be possible to Ungroup it.   However, I have realised that the LINE instances are actually sublayers each with the same name LINE, so you needed to: 1) Move the paths out of those and then join them, or 2) Collect them in one of the LINE sublayers and then join them, or 3) Copy them and paste the copies outside the LINE sublayers and then join them.   And after your performing 1) you could use the resulting path as the Clipping Mask.   You could also do it with 2) and 3).   In any case, you can rename the <path> and give it the name LINES.   ... View more

Eliminateur,   What happens if you selct all the LINE objects and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G to Ungroup them, then Join the Paths with Ctrl/Cmd+J?   Or make and expand a Live Paint Group?   ... View more

For my part you are welcome, jimac.   And what pixxxelschubser said.   I believe this may be helpful in connexion with the switch, https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools-in-illustrator.html   And to emphasize a good a tool for help with tasks like snapping to objects/Anchor Points/whatever and any other guiding tasks, you can look at Use Smart Guides, and specifically Set Smart Guides preferences here, https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/rulers-grids-guides-crop-marks.html   As you might have guessed, I believe the helpx pages offer good help, so here is an empty search page you can bookmark; rmember to add Illustrator to the search term to avoid to many hit about Photoshop, InDesign, and whatnot, https://helpx.adobe.com/search-results.html?q=&scope=%5B%22helpx%22%5D&subscope=%5B%5D&limit=10&start_index=0&sort_orderby=relevancy&sort_order=desc&post_facet_filters=%7B%22applicable_products%22%3A%5B%5D%7D   And there is this, https://helpx.adobe.com/support/illustrator.html ... View more

                                              THE STEEAS BECK                                                              Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

                                                            Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Now that is greenery, Yss.   ... View more

s,   I have no recollection of any Correct Answer marking, and I believe Monika is right about staff.   ... View more

A most astonishing perspective, Bob.   ... View more

Merca,   What happens if you use Ctrl/Cmd+Y (hold Ctrl or Cmd and press Y)?   It toggles between Outline View and Preview.     ... View more

drishti,   Maybe a silly question, but are you sure that the new is in front rather than beneath the coat and other filled things?   And what Ton said.     Unknown to most, it is quite easy to directly show images in posts, hence the following general suggestion: Please show images by using the Insert Photos button (looks like moon over mountains) for each at the top of the reply box which makes everything appear right there in your post together with your text, rather than the more conspicuous Drag&drop attachment which requires helpers to open a new tab for each image and wait for its showing, then go back and forth; and if they just click it and wait for its showing and press the X to get back to the text, the image is gone so they have to open it again and wait to see it again.   ... View more

leoh,   "you can tell im self taught"   Far from it: Ctrl/Cmd+H is undoubtedly the most frequent  undetected keyboard mishit: you try to use one of the surrounding letters and when it fails to work you try again, and forget all about the failed attempt so the mishit hits you back long after any connexion can be made.   It has been up many times, happening to countless victims, from New Heres to Community Experts.   By the way, some New Heres have many years of experience but no need to ask about anything here, until something really strange happens.   ... View more