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‎Jan 18, 2024
07:16 PM
I just looked at it with a slightly old Illustrator (27.8.1) and it cut and pasted just fine, both within this file and into a new document. But when I closed this and the other test document, I couldn't open another one until I force quit and restarted AI. Interesting!
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‎Nov 18, 2023
02:50 PM
1 Upvote
Wow, Blender sure did do some things that made me question the sanity of Blender's developers, so here I am making life a little better for the next person to ask "why the hell can't I change certain shortcuts in AE" byt letting you know that in 2023, the relevant file on a Mac is /Users/your-user-name/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/23.1/aeks/Custom.txt And editing it still works! Does After Effects still have any kind of public bug/feature request? Because I would upvote the hell out of "let me assign whatever key to whatever shortcut".
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‎Nov 16, 2023
03:28 PM
1 Upvote
It is 2023 and I am trying After Effects for the first time and I am asking my After Effects why R is such a special key that I must not be allowed to assign it to 'rotate' instead of 'bring up rotate parameters' or whatever the default is. And it is not telling me why. And all I can find on the internet is this thread, that reports that ten letters of the alphabet are not available to reassign. Why, Adobe? Why are these function blessed, and unchangeable from whatever your developers think is the best way to use this complex power tool? I do not know. And I am pondering the effort involved in learning enough of this program to truly understand why these choices have been made, keeping in mind the fact that my intent to try to marry it to Illustrator as an animation tool and might be wholly *incompatible* with the way the developers expected their program to be used, versus the effort involved in learning a Grease Pencil animation workflow in Blender, and Blender is looking really, really competitive here. Blender is also a massive, powerful pile of UI decisions made by people who are not me, and I am sure I will be saying "why, Blender, why did you assign this action to THIS key" many times as I play with it, but at least it will let me *change* a lot of them.
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‎Mar 14, 2023
03:05 PM
Today I started digging into a project that's been idle for the past year or so and got a warning that "Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported starting January 2023. Your document contains Type 1 fonts." Guess I'm glad I'm slow on updating Illustrator. Asking Font Book to search my Mac's fonts by kind revealed that 218 of the 618 fonts on my computer are Type 1. Mostly crazy free novelty fonts that I use for sound effects in my comics. What have people been using to convert their Type 1 fonts to a newer format? Have you found a solution that you can just point at a fonts directory and let loose, or does it require a human to make some choices for every font? What format have you been choosing? Most discussions I can find on the Adobe forums just acknowledging the existance of these programs, but never mention any. And there's no guidance on which format is best. So far I have found: • Fontlab's TransType - $100, might need human intervention for every font? https://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/ • the opensource program Font Forge, and an AskDifferent answer that suggests a bash script to autoconvert: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/33111/is-there-macos-software-to-convert-postscript-type-1-font-to-ttf • ...and a bunch of web pages that claim to convert fonts and that I have no interest in trying to upload 218 fonts to one at a time. What's worked for you?
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‎Mar 14, 2023
01:58 PM
0. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The old project with the Type 1 font worked for the designer and clients' purposes. You chose a font that made the visual point you wanted, with the characters you needed. If you needed any of the things the old Type 1 font couldn't do, you would have chosen a different font. Now suddenly you open something old and you have to go digging in your font directory and find out how to kludge the old font into the new format, or pick a new font, instead of just doing what you came to this file to do and get on with your life. It's a giant pain in the ass.
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‎Jun 23, 2021
11:46 AM
1 Upvote
I just updated from 24.2.3 to 25.3.1 and have started getting this whenever I launch Illustrator. Both of my tablets seem to be working perfectly fine with these old drivers. Is there any way to disable this? If I update to the latest Wacom driver it looks like it will break one of my tablets - I keep a an Intuos 4 PTK-440 in my laptop bag and do a ton of my work on it out at cafes, and Wacom appears to have ended support for it with the last few driver updates. I really don't want to spend the time and money to acquire a replacement right now, I just wanna permanantly acknowledge that this may be an issue and get back to drawing with my tablet that has a stylus that still works with the wonderful feel of the spring nibs. Also I would like to extend my warmest thanks to whoever is responsible for this not actually unchecking the "enable wacom" checkbox in the prefs, I would be full of so much hate if I had to turn that back on every time I restarted Illustrator after a crash. (Anyone saying "it's just $xxx for a new tablet" is welcome to paypal money to egypt@urnash.com, my finances are stretched pretty thin right now.)
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‎Jan 06, 2020
09:49 AM
Yeah, that is a lot more succinct, thank you! Also hi Mx Pawnshop 🙂
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‎Jan 04, 2020
03:06 PM
1 Upvote
This was not working for me on Illustrator 2020. I beat on it a bit until it did: (function () {
if (app.documents.length === 0) {
return;
}
var doc = app.activeDocument,
count = 0,
targetString = " copy",
allnames = "LAYER NAMES:\n";
function removeStringAfter(searchValue, obj) {
var name = obj.name,
index = name.indexOf(searchValue),
count = 0;
allnames += name+"\n";
if (index > -1) {
// alert ("renaming "+name);
obj.name = name.slice(0, index);
count += 1;
}
return count;
}
// layers and sublayers
(function recursion(thelayers) {
for (var i = 0; i < thelayers.length; i++) {
count += removeStringAfter(targetString, thelayers[i]);
if (thelayers[i].layers.length > 0) {
recursion(thelayers[i].layers);
}
}
}(doc.layers));
alert(count + " names have been changed.");
// alert (allnames);
}());
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‎Jan 06, 2016
10:38 AM
2 Upvotes
I'd been using Illustrator for a number of years. Drawing stuff on paper, then working over scans of it with the pen tool. It was a slow, painstaking process. But it was the only one I knew - the pencil tool looked promising in theory but it wouldn't draw filled paths, and was useless for linear sketching because it constantly tried to edit the last line I drew instead of laying down another one near it. I'd gotten good at rapidly drawing shapes with the pen tool, I suppose. But everything still took forever. Then one day I double-clicked on the pencil tool and discovered it had settings. Those things that made it utterly useless were just strange choices of defaults! I turned on "fill new pencil strokes" and suddenly I could draw a filled shape in seconds rather than having to slowly work around it. I turned off "keep selected" and suddenly I could knock out a sketch just as quickly and easily as if I was doing it on paper. (And then I went around double-clicking every single tool in the toolbox, just to see if there was anything else with settings attached to the tool rather than the preferences. I'd been using it for years, read the entire manual, and I'd missed that this was a thing.) That day, my entire approach to Illustrator changed. I was able to do an entire 200-page graphic novel directly in Illustrator now that I'd discovered how to make the pencil tool work for me.
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‎Apr 08, 2015
07:21 PM
Well, at least I'm pretty sure it's not just that I'm missing something obvious in the JS reference. Illustrator's JS API really is that stupid. Guess I'll write another feature request to add to my collection of things I keep asking for every release. I've been asking for some of them for multiple years but everyone needs an impossible dream or two.
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‎Apr 04, 2015
01:02 PM
I'm trying to write a script: select some paths, run the script, then each path that has a brush applied to it is changed to use a random brush whose name is sufficiently similar to its current brush. The application is pretty obvious - draw a bunch of lines in, say, 'ragged marker 1', then give it some extra liveliness by having five or six 'ragged marker' brushes that get randomly chosen. The problem I'm running against is that as far as I can tell, Illustrator only lets Javascript set what brush an object is using with brush.applyTo (artItem), but I can't seem to find any way to find out what path a brush is currently using via JS. Am I just not looking in the right place of the Javascript reference, or is this really a thing that only has a setter, with no corresponding getter?
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‎Dec 03, 2013
01:15 PM
1 Upvote
> Save the file by turning off the Create PDF Compatible File +1. I started getting 'unknown errors' while saving some PDF-compatible versions of files I'd created with that switch off. I ended up tracking it down to a path deep inside a distortion mesh that had no fill, no stroke, and nothing showing up in the appearance palette, yet was still marked as having some appearance effects applied to it; I hit the 'clear appearance' button in the appearance palette and was able to save just fine. Tracking method: Delete half your layers, try to save. Does it save? If yes, then undo, and delete half of the layers you just got back via the undo. If no, undo and delete half of the layers you didn't delete the first time. Repeat until it's down to one layer; open that layer up and start deleting half its objects until you're down to one object.
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