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‎Jan 13, 2011
01:50 AM
1 Upvote
Wade, you are referring to non-linear editing.... as I understand things, that is something Illustrator can not allow due to the nature of vectors. The History Panel(s) are really only truly beneficial when it comes to non-linear editing (as you've described) otherwise they simply list undo steps. Since Illustrator can not support non-linear editing..... a history panel would be useless. imagine..... You have a history panel that looks like this: Pen Tool Click Pen Tool Click Bezier Curve Pen Tool Click Select Objects Pathfinder > Merge Object > Expand Pen Tool Click PenTool Click ShapeBuilder Tool Plus ShapeBuilder Tool Plus ShapeBuilder Tool Minus Set Fill Color Set Stroke Weight Set Stroke Color Now what happens when you attempt to edit at step 4? You lose everything after that step and start over. This is the same thing as undoing. You can not expect to edit step 4 and still retain the Pathfinder command. I mean, the objects that were merged and expanded would be completely different now. I can't even begin to fathom how one would even attempt to write logic that would allow such non-linear vector editing. With pixels (Photoshop, Lightroom, et. al) it's easy - "pixel at x500y200 is #000000 and 50% opaque" - store that as history, then change it when needed. You can not do that with vectors. The information that would need to be stored is much more complicated than a single pixel. Vectors are purely linear in nature. They are created in a linear fashion, and are edited in a linear fashion. Altering any single part of a vector image results in other parts being edited as well. You can't pick and choose exactly one pixel of a vector image to edit or store as editable content.
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‎Jan 12, 2011
12:34 AM
3 Upvotes
To date, no one has posted any valid reasons why a history panel is necessary. You can not have non-linear history in Illustrator the way you can in Photoshop. A history panel in Illustrator would be exactly what you've described... steps that undo would back up to.Do you really need a snapshot to tell you to go back one more step? In addition, it would be filled with Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Would that really be a useful place to expend Illustrator resources?
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‎Dec 21, 2010
02:06 PM
2 Upvotes
theonlyscreennamenottaken wrote: I am going to be sending this job to a printer. Do I just turn the CMYK value into a Spot color then? I will have a couple other Pantone Colors. I still don't understand why it isn't in illustrator... Pantone, like any company, wants to make money. How they do this is by creating new color mixes that look almost exactly like previous color mixes but the breakouts are slightly different. When Pantone releases these new colors, the digital color books provided to software developers may not be upgraded or the upgrades are provided too late in a development cycle to include them. Sometimes you can download updated color libraries from Pantone's web site. Sometimes you can't. it's my understanding Adobe does it's level best to include the most recent color books with it's applications. However, you can not expect Illustrator 14 (CS4) to include the most recent "marketing-dollar" colors from Pantone since AI14 is more than 2 years old now. There are a couple of very easy ways to handle your files. If possible, pick a different Pantone color that matches the color you want. Chances are, if you look, you'll find a practically identical color somewhere else in the color book. Use ANY Pantone color for the file, but specify the exact Pantone number you want the printer to use. For example, tell the printer "The Pantone 186 plate should print Pantone 7621." You can also simply set those object as strictly Magenta, for example, and tell the printer "Magenta prints Pantone 7621."
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‎Dec 16, 2010
03:35 PM
1 Upvote
You would need to create a custom pattern brush to get the stitching to follow the path. Not easily done, but possible.
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‎Dec 16, 2010
02:44 PM
1 Upvote
I find expanding the scribble effect and applying a gradient to the resuting shape helps a great deal.
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‎Dec 01, 2010
06:43 AM
4 Upvotes
Not sure what you mean by "they can't be offset". The 3D effect works great here....
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‎Nov 30, 2010
03:36 PM
What is that stuff? You must have HUGE birds where you live to leave all that.......
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‎Nov 26, 2010
08:16 PM
You can easily test plug ins... just put a ~ in front of the folder name (~Plug-ins) and relaunch Photoshop. If the behavior returns to normal, then it's absolutely a plug-in issue.
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‎Nov 26, 2010
07:20 PM
My freezing issues didn't "pop up" all of the sudden. They were like that from installation. There was no "slow down" after a period of expected behavior. If you've experienced a change in existing behavior, then you need to look at what has changed on your system. If it was running well and now doesn't, some other system change was the catalyst for that trouble.
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‎Nov 25, 2010
02:13 AM
I appreciate that.. but again.. I'd like to hear from users, not merely listen to or read the Adobe marketing materials. Adobe will always tout the new version as miraculous... users generally will tell the truth. And I'm looking for keyboard shortcuts, not actions. I want instant access to a single menu item, not a series of steps repeated.
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‎Nov 24, 2010
07:07 PM
I swap all stock drives for smaller ones actually. Don't need a 1TB boot drive 500GB is plenty. And I'll NEVER pay $2k for a single 500GB SSD.
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‎Nov 24, 2010
06:54 PM
I don't own 8MB buffer drives. All my drives are 16MB or 32MB 7200RPM. Interesting idea though.
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‎Nov 24, 2010
06:01 PM
I won't claim to have any more experience than any other user here. Most here are experts in their own right. I am not a hobbyist either. I have worked with Photoshop and the Macintosh platform for about 20 years, since version Photoshop 3/Illustrator 88/Aldus Pagemaker. All I can speak about is my experience. My 2006 MacPro with dual nVidia 8800GT cards, 3 monitors, OS 10.5.8 or 10.6.4, and Photoshop CS5 was a COMPLETE nightmare. Unlike any previous Adobe application that has ever been installed here. As I've posted MANY times... I wiped drives, reconfigured the video cards... did EVERYTHING that could be done and nothing allowed Photoshop CS5 to run smoothly on the 2006 MacPro. It was only after swapping hard drives with a 2010 Mac Pro that Photoshop CS5 will now run smoothly on the 2006 MacPro. Now, my first inclination is perhaps I had bad sectors on the hard drive itself. However, that was all checked and verified via Disk Utility many times. Additionally Installing 10.6.4 and Photoshop CS5 on a completely different hard drive inside the same 2006 MacPro did not correct the Photoshop CS5 issues. Perhaps there's a firmware/install issue on the 2006 MP? Or an installer issue? Who knows. I didn't want to upgrade from 10.5.8. 10.6 has issues still. I was forced to upgrade with the new 2010 MacPro - no choice. And while I'm still trying to work around other issues 10.6.5 presents, it does appear to have cleared the Photoshop CS5 issues I was having. From my experience, I have clearly come to the conclusion that there is something about my 2006 Mac Pro and OS10.6.4/10.5.8 that Photoshop simply does not like. Whether the issue is created upon installation, is due to my dual video cards, or large monitors, or something else remains a mystery to me. When I get my replacement 2010 MacPro back from Apple, I'll swap drives again and just for my own curiosity attempt to install OS10.6.5 and Photoshop CS5 on the 2006 MacPro directly (rather than swapping drives) to see if it functions then. I'm guessing it won't and the error or issue is in place with the install on the system. Edit to add... I don't run any PPC apps anymore at all.
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‎Nov 24, 2010
05:42 PM
This alone would propel me to upgrading from 9 pro if Acrobat X allows it. Any other "must-have" features from a user perspective? I'd rather hear form users than read the Adobe marketing. I create tons of PDFx files for commercial press from Indesign as well as web-ready PDFs for user downloads and am interested in anything which improves that process. Thanks
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‎Nov 24, 2010
07:41 AM
FYI Chris and Adam.. 10.6.5 appears to have corrected whatever issue there was here. It may be directly related to 10.5.8 and/or 10.6.4. More info if you want it.... 2010 Mac Pro arrived with with 10.6.4+ on it (not 10.6.4 and not 10.6.5 but something in between.) I updated to 10.6.5 when it was released via Software Update. PSCS5 ran fine on this system for 3 weeks if there wasn't too much system strain. Serious non-functional fan issues and displays not remaining set on 2010 MP. Fan issue exceptionally noticeable under heavy load - system froze and crashed under heavy load. Fans never changed speeds, regardless of load. Sending bad 2010 MP back to Apple at their request. Pulled 2010 MacPro hard drives and put them into the 2006 Mac Pro (Not my usual method, but hey, they are both MPs and I need as little down time as possible.) So far (2 days) no more PSCS5 freezes on the 2006 MP with OS10.6.5 No amount of system wiping and reinstalling allowed PSCS5 to NOT freeze with OS10.5.8 or 10.6.4 on the 2006 MP.
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‎Nov 24, 2010
04:20 AM
I've submitted at leat 5 for the past 3 versions.. hopefully at some point they get to it
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‎Nov 24, 2010
03:51 AM
The easiest way to see how Photoshop DHS never works for spacing is to set 5 or 6 text layers of different words (like a web menu layout)... then try to get even spacing between them. Never happens. You are forced to manually measure distances and move layers. Looking forward to trying the script! This has been a pain point since Photoshop started being a web creation tool and one reason I now use Illustrator for web layout much more.
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‎Nov 23, 2010
06:39 PM
dianer_macperson wrote: When in the "move" tool, making sure all your images are on separate layers, and the layers are selected, use the align funtions in the menu bar. Important to note.. you are A) working with three layers of identical dimensions and B) you are aligning the layers via their dimensions, not the space between the layer artwork. There's a wold of difference.
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‎Nov 21, 2010
12:56 AM
Thanks C
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‎Nov 21, 2010
12:34 AM
1 Upvote
It's damn annoying that Photoshop at version 12 doesn't have a feature to distribute spacing evenly.
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‎Nov 19, 2010
04:34 PM
My tale of woe...... Dealt with all the issues on a MacPro 1,1 with 2 nVidia 8800 GT cards.... Did everything I can think of to correct the issues. No luck. Bought a new 2010 MacPro 5,1 with the ATI 5870... not a single issue with Photoshop CS5. Now the 2010 MacPro needs to go back to Apple - Bad fan issue and they immediately offered an exchange. So.... for a week or so I've got to go back to the 2006 MacPro. After this week... I'm more than happy to do ANYTHING to the 2006 MacPro 1,1 to see if the issue can be repeated easily. In addition, I've got the Capture Data app (v 8.4.1) from Apple to create a SHARK report for you. (Assuming it runs on the 2006 MP since it was sent to sort the issues with the 2010 MP).
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‎Nov 19, 2010
02:50 PM
Seems to have been corrected after the latest "Clearspace" correction.
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‎Nov 19, 2010
03:16 AM
I still think there's something with the nVidia cards (or it's Apple drivers) that has a serious issue with Photoshop CS5.
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‎Nov 14, 2010
07:28 PM
5 Upvotes
Layers Panel Menu > Paste Remembers Layers Be certain that is checked. Then Copy > Paste between files. You might want to make things slightly easier on yourself first though by moving all the layers in file 1 to a new layer (creating sublayers), then copy > paste to file 2.
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‎Nov 09, 2010
08:54 PM
Hey Ken Hope things are good with you and you're not getting the rain we are down here.
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‎Nov 08, 2010
01:56 AM
That would cause it, but that's not the issue. You are taken back to the thread after editing. The edit isn't present. I've even reloaded the thread, emptied browser cache and reloaded thread, logged out and back in and reloaded thread. Simply put.. the initial edit does not take place.
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‎Nov 07, 2010
04:30 PM
Mac OS... same behavior in Chrome and Safari.
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‎Nov 07, 2010
04:30 PM
Every time I edit a post (mostly for spelling and/or typos) I must edit the post twice. First edit is made and Update clicked.. I return to the tread to see the post unedited. I edit again.. click Update... return to thread THEN the post is updated.
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‎Oct 14, 2010
04:52 AM
Wade... 2 video cards driving 3 monitors? 24 GB RAM? and no, I don't have a great deal of plug ins (and of course all plug ins were deactivated to test with the issues).
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