lister,   Assuming that each icon is supposed to be contained within whole pixels and maybe fitting into the 150 pixel grid, and that the lines form part of closed paths, I believe that it is best to:   1) Align strokes to outside, 2) Adjust wherever necessary, and 3) Outline.   Always keep a backup of artwork that is going to be irreversibly changed, such as stroked paths to be outlined.   ... View more

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I can see that the request has really taken off, Ton. ... View more

m,   In addition to what Ton said, it could form the basis of a(n obvious) feature request, I believe. https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests https://illustrator.uservoice.com/   It may be worth seeing whether others have made similar requests and refer to those, and/or join those and maybe refer to yours.   ... View more

Ah Peter, the topping beyond the bay.   ... View more

A real mystery indeed, Kurt.   There are some related present day equipment versions, searchable with terms like portable ski tow rope for individual and mulitple skiers, both including ready made sets and DIY solutions, all of which include anchoring.   https://duckduckgo.com/?q=portable+ski+tow+rope&t=ftsa&atb=v320-1&ia=web   ... View more

Kurt,   Peter unravelled the mystery, indeed.   I gather that the quodropod serves as its supporting gear in between its operating, and that it is anchored when operating to prevent its dragging itself down on top of the skiers, eventually at the bottom of the slope.   ... View more

Mohit,   I am asking about all the threads/posts/conversations that were lost in connexion with the switch to Khoros in 2019, expect for many of those about scripting which were restored through a huge effort by Adobe staff.   They were referred to here at the time, https://community.adobe.com/t5/back-room-discussions/missing-threads-we-wish-to-bring-back/td-p/10727588   In other words: Can and will the threads/posts/conversations that were not brought back then be restored, or are they lost forever?   I have never known whether they were kept in some form, which could give a shimmer of hope.     ... View more

I agree completely with Bobby. Luckily I was delayed in writing an (inferior) answer based on your new animation background screenshots, so here are just a few reflexions. Your newness and the newnew animation background screenshots made it obvious to me that the hitherto suggestions based on Gradients or Blends were irrelevant to your purpose. In general there is often an unfortunate use of tool/application specific terms instead of broader terms. There is nothing wrong in using Photoshop for parts of the artwork (or for all of it in other cases), even if you may need "to resize without losing image quality. to resize without losing image quality. My plan is to print the comic, so I may or may not need to resize the image.", because the solution is simple: just choose a sufficiently large possible/final size and create the artwork at that size or set the resolution (of the Photoshop part(s)) so that it is sufficient when scaled up to the chosen/final size, which will reduce the resolution by the scaling factor (if you wish to be able to scale up to double size (a factor 2), the resolution needs to be doubled at the original size).   ... View more

Mohit, as I (mis)understand your answer to Egor:   Will all the posts that were lost in connexion with the switch to Khoros, in other words the majority of then existing threads which had latest post older than sometime round 2016, be included?   ... View more

The steel cable is certainly visible, Kurt; in the last two years, long before my seeing that the jaybird was also brooding over the matter, I have assumed that it led to the other belt visible on the first photo, ready to drag it in.   ... View more

Kurt, as I (mis)understand it, it was (capable of) dragging the two belts in, presumably independently, and in the first photo with the children both had been dragged in, in the second without/with the jaybird only one.   Was anything dragged in along with each/the belt(s)?   ... View more

  Limited Collector Item SFTW 255: The original James Christie gavel design from 1766     It was used at the first Christie auctions in spite of its releasing a bit of ash and soot, but eventually abandoned when the original sound block and a document were charred by glowing embers.   The design was inspired by the new pipe tomahawks, which were first produced about a decade earlier by request from Native Americans and quickly became famous as important trade objects and diplomatic gifts.   Click the image to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

L,   A follow up: The artwork structure seems to imply that you started out with a very dark blue rectangle and then worked on ever narrowing copies made by curved cutoffs.   An option to start over might be to apply the three cutoff curves to the original rectangle, making sure that they snap to it with the help of Smart Guides, and then simply apply Pathfinder>Divide to have four closed paths in a Group, and then recolour.   ... View more

L,   A very close look at the first screenshot reveals something strange at the corners of the faint/narrow line at the right which seems to have the cyan colour: it looks like separate open paths with Butt Ends, in other words something different to the dark rectangle and the three paths in the inner Group.   What is the object named Reserved, and what happens if you hide/delete it?   ... View more

L,   This statement "If I have two identical & precisely overlapping shapes with different fills on top of each other," may be true, albeit only partially since only the right sides can be identical and precisley overlapping, but it would be nice to see both the white and the cyan (and preferably also the deep(er) blue selected and with Transform values shown with one of the right Reference Points ticked.   But whichever the issue, I believe you can mend it in the following way, working on a copy of the Group with the three paths, which you can hide and keep as back up, Smart Guides being your friends:   1) Lock the bottommost dark blue path, 2) Click an empty spot on the artboard, then with the Direct Seletion Tool ClickDrag over the two rightmost corners of the paths and press Delete; this ought to delete the straight segments of the white and cyan paths, leaving only the two curves to the left as open paths; 3) With the two open curves from 2) still selected hold Ctrl/Cmd and press X then F to copy them to the front, in other words above the dark blue path; 4) Deselect, then still with the Direct Selection Tool click each of the topmost end Anchor Points of the paths and ShiftClickDrag it a bit up and then down again to snap to the path beneath (Smart Guides say intersect), then do the opposite with the bottommost Anchor Point; this will ensure the two paths beyond the blue path; 5) Unlock the dark blue path from 1), then apply Pathfinder>Divide to have three closed paths in a Group, and then recolour.     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 if they need another look they have to open it again and wait to see it again.   ... View more

Now we are close to the end of my third year of brooding over it, Kurt; still working on it.   ... View more

  It is hardly here Even less further afield Empty is the sky     Click to get closer ... View more

InHouseGraphics,   You may consider which Smart Guides settings you actually need (at any given time).   But it is clear from the rest of this thread that it is an issue known to Adobe.   ... View more

I apologize for my woolliness, Ton, there was no language problem in your post at all: former has no serious prenonimal meaning, unlike late.   Your kind linking to the page that Teri is still upholding to help us is the first time I have actually seen her retirement implied, and her latest kind and unique Adobe participation in the forum seems merely weeks ago rather than years.   Hence my silly question.   ... View more

muitocool,   I am afraid it is Sunday over there (and Saturday when you posted), but I hope our Adobe friends can solve it tomorrow.   @Anubhav M  @Abhishek Rao  ... View more

Former, Ton? Argh.     ... View more

Ah, I see, Ten A; and thank you for sharing.   ... View more

これを日本のフォーラムに移せば, Ten A さんの回答がもっと多くの人の役に立つと思います。   If this is moved to the Japanese forum, I believe the answer by Ten A san will help many more.   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   ... View more

Brett,   As I (mis)understand it, you may consider a blend between two paths, one strecthing from the boundary of the black path to the opposite curve where you wish the colour transition to start, and the other being a narrow path following the opposite curve on top of the former.   A safe way to make a consistent transition could be to add Anchor Points to the the opposite curve corresponding to those of the black path, and then use a(n adapted) copy as the opposite side of the narrow path.   You can make the transition smooth or in distinct steps with the Blend Options, and especially since you mention a comic, a suitable number of distinct steps can be more suitable, corresponding to the stepwise transitions elsewhere in the screenshot.   ... View more

You are welcome, Katrina.   Expand is an option in many contexts.   It is good to keep a backup of artwork that you may wish to be able to fall back on. ... View more

  The brand new Pilum Point based on the ancient pilum technology has proved its ability to soften the impact and avoid bouncing out of even the most battered dartboards, such as this original Winmau Blade 6 Triple Core PDC Match Board where no part has been spared down to the chalk sticks.   However, a definite downside has been observed, so improvements of the concept are ongoing.     Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Ah, 245 and 251 are still with us, Turtle.   ... View more

I have also wondered, Dave, and I believe you are right about ales (Peak Ales?).   ... View more