Well, it's not that tricky as you may think.   In general, the rule is:   - If nothing or the Path item is highlighted in the Appearance palette, the opacity setting gets applied to both the stroke and the fill.   - To apply opacity settings separately you just have to highlight the desired items before you apply the setttings.   That's all. Pretty straightforward. ... View more

Roger,   if you want to apply transparency separately, the Appearance palette should look like this:     You have to deliberately highlight the stroke/fill items and then set the desired opacity. ... View more

Can you share a sample Illustrator file including further instructions in case you think it may help to better understand the issue? ... View more

Thanks for the sample file.   When you zoom in a bit the Repeat widgets should appear.   Obviously, this is a bug in conjunction with the zoom level (not with the actual objects). ... View more

Looks like your "Non-proportional" sample in the screenshot is a selection of two (or more) separate Repeat objects.   Can you share a sample Illustrator file in case that does not apply? ... View more

Can you share a sample Illustrator file that contains both the original dieline and the updated one? ... View more

Well, in your initial post you were talking about getting (the visibility of) guides behind other objects, as one can do with the grid, but not with guides.   As per your description it was not obvious that you were talking just about hiding guides altogether (or layers that only consist of guides). ... View more

That won't work, mpchow.   Both the Fit to Artwork Bounds and the Fit to Selected Art commands can only be incorporated into an action by using the Insert Menu Item command in the Actions Palette flyout menu.   Roger, exactly how did you try it? ... View more

For this step you'd have to use the Insert Menu Item command in the flyout menu of the Actions palette. ... View more

You are right.   If you want guides behind other objects, you'd have to use regular paths instead (like the ones that can be created in the Object menu > Path > Split into Grid dialog. ... View more

Unfortunately you do not state which versions of Illustrator and Corel Draw you are using.   However, Corel Draw used to have a pretty good .ai import filter. You may have to save your .ai files to some older file format and then see if Corel Draw can handle it.   Be prepared that not all kind of native Illustrator objects will be interpreted as you may wish. It depends on what exactly your Illustrator documents contain.   If you want further advice, you'd have to provide more details and perhaps share at least one sample Illustrator file. ... View more

For instance, if we set a tolerance level of 20 in Adobe Illustrator for a CMYK color with values C=70, M=47, Y=55, K=60, does the tolerance apply as a ±20 range for each channel (e.g., C=50-90, M=27-67, Y=35-75, K=40-80)?   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Yes, exactly. That's the basic rule about CMYK colours I was trying to explain in my rather generalised statement above.   It gets a bit different when there are 0 % inks. Basically, the 0 % inks do not count, unless you change at least one of the non-zero % inks. Then the zero % inks kind of may get some bonus points.   A long time ago I created a comparative table that should explain the issue in detail. Will have to look at one of my archives and post it in case I can locate it. ... View more

As for CMYK process colours the rule is what one may call a "common responsibility".   That is, to be considered and selected as objects with the "same" colour, none of the four inks (relative to the reference colour) are allowed to exceed or fall below the percentaged tolerance setting in the Magic Wand palette. Otherwise the Magic Wand won't select them.   Probably that's valid for RGB colours as well, but the calculation is obviously a bit more complicated. ... View more

In the general Illustrator preferences there is an option called "Disable Auto Add/Delete".   Turn this option on. ... View more

At least one path of the initial selection has to be a closed path to "force create" a spine.   That closed path can be a ghost object (e.g. a rectangle with no attributes and zero-sized in width and height).   That may or may not be helpful in your specific situation, but it will always create a spine. ... View more

What happens if you do a screen refresh in GPU preview (just zoom in or out once or a couple of times)? ... View more

It has been reported quite often that GPU preview sometimes is not available for some (sometimes unexplained) reasons. Can you turn on GPU preview in a new document? Or can't you use it at all?   If you can use GPU in a blank document, then you may want to share the file that does not allow you to use it. So someone can have a look at it. ... View more

On Windows "Simulate Coloured Paper" only works as expected when using CPU preview, as far as I remember.   When using GPU preview, the display is just as if a coloured rectangle is at the background (no coloured paper simulation).   The screenshots above indicate that CPU preview is turned on in all documents. So it may be that switching to GPU is what she wants (though it is then the wrong behaviour, strictly speaking). ... View more

On Windows it is here:   <OSDisk>\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator <version number> Settings\en_US*\x64\ ... View more

Steve,   trying it on another machine is going to be a waste of time, because it just won't work as per Florence's misleading instruction. By the way, all of Florence Gayhart's posts in the Illustrator forum so far have the suspicious sound of information that is generated by so-called artificial intelligence. Sometimes such information ist just utterly wrong.   However, you can reorder the items, but you will have to edit the Tracing Presets file that is located in the folder where the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file is stored (varies depending on your operating system).   Quit Illustrator, make a backup of the Tracing Presets file and open the original Tracing Presets file (which is a plain text file that may look a bit confusing at first glance). To identify the preset names (collectionName) you have to use a Hexadecimal to ASCII Text converter. Then you can carefully reorder the preset names and settings as desired, save the file and restart Illustrator.   ... View more

The 77(3) part is probably undesired, Ton. ... View more

Hmh, probably you have particular expectations, Femke, but I do not see any noteworthy dwindling at the moment. Just a normal seasonal fluctuation perhaps.   As far as I can see, there are questions about scripting almost everyday (as you already mentioned). During the last year more than 600 requests for sure. That's not "close to dying", is it?   And yes, people come and people go. That's true in this forum since it exists, that is about 25 years.   Am I overlooking something? ... View more

With some helper objects (straight lines with a certain number of anchor points), you may use the NumeratePoints script that is provided by Sergey Osokin. ... View more

Hi Josh, the reason why your script may not colour the text properly is probably a localisation conflict when using non-English Illustrator versions.   I did not test it thoroughly, but as far as I can see in line 352 the default [Registration] swatch is used. In non-English Illustrator versions the name of this swatch varies and therefore it can cause errors.   Just as an example, when using your script in the German version of Illustrator, the default [Registration]  swatch would have to be renamed to [Passermarken]  in order to get the colourised text objects (based on existing spot colours). ... View more

Can you share this Illustrator file? ... View more

As per your description, I'm not sure if it is clear what you're going to do.   Can you elaborate a bit? Screenshots with before/after scenarios may help to understand the task better. Or sharing a sample Illustrator file with further instructions. ... View more

In the Actions palette menu, you can use the Insert Menu Item command to insert a script into an action. ... View more