Don't take offense but it sounds like you are selectivel trying the fixes you like rather than starting at the beginning. First try this crete a new user account and launch Illustrattor tell us what happens ... View more

You ask any of them and I assure you they will swear there was snow that day. Here in New York City we already had a snow storm in early November but as you can see it did not last long. ... View more

I think that mylenium has the answer that is most practical and in the end you will probably be happier with the added capabilities. ... View more

It seems tht it is actually here And they were not aalone thee were easily a couple of thousand of them trying to get into every bar. ... View more

This plug in might help you the developer is an art director for a few model railroad magazines and he creaed it for his own work. He does amazing illustrtions of locomotives and railroad cars. http://rj-graffix.com/software/plugins.html#trackplan ... View more

Do a search for a cache utility for Windows. Font Explorer from Linotype might have a version for Wondows. ... View more

After 4:30 minutess I got this response And get it every time with CS 5 or 4 or 3 in order for those applications to finish  the task I have to leave a .17 inch gutter and then they takes 3 minutes. When I leave that gutterit akes CS 6 1:24 minutes there is noway you got what you say you got. I once met Orson welles when I was very young and he told me a an act he sometimes performs where he would pick a stranger out of an audience and tell him things about himself, of course he made it cear that they had never met and that they had never had any communications of any kind. And he was always correct, he also told me the secret of the trick and I bet you can guess the trick. It is pretty obvious except to the public at large. ... View more

You did not find this to be true, if you found CS 4 faster doing the test that I suggested you did not od the test correctly in CS 4. No matter what you write. The test is this a 20x24 inch document cmyk with an 18 x18 inch square path white fill black stroke, in other words the default Object>Path>Split into Grid Settings 100 rows nd 100 cloumns with 0 for the gutter setting then apply a drop shadow with the settings as such Timne it from the time you click OK ... View more

I have had a lot of success with feature request for instance the ability to name artboards. Yes if the argument is a good one and you tell them how it will save you time and improve your workflow even if you have to stand alone on the feature requesxt it can get done. For master artboard I tell them that I need this because I have a client that has certain type of printed matter that has to be reproduced for a number different distribution methods and it might have to the same content or a variety of content but thay may have to change in the future such as an art show for a Museum whhere there are several different pieces made as part of the package, announcements, invitations, rsvp cards, envelopes, posters and catalogue o rhe like. The exhibit might travel and be shown at a new venue another Musuem but it is under the auspices of the orginal program director and the Museum of orgin. The other museum might have different requirements based on their numbers of memebers and their mailing lists and sizes say of poster which say in New York can be large for say subway use as oposed to cit that only has bus routes and therefore only bus shelters and of course are probably of different dimensions. The difference in sizes of memebers and mailing lists might place the piece on a different press and might have to be a different size depending on the design. So be able to change the size of a master artboard would definitely be helpful and save times as gthere may mbe two or three versions for things like invitations or posters, so one loacion might have five posters of different content but for the same exhibit and the size display same with announcements some going tos udent bodies and some going to elite memebers and some going to corporate cnoributors and somw going the the general membership. So having one document in itself is handy and having the ability to make that docuemtn flexibile for future use is also a blessing. This is my argument for masterr artboards ... View more

I see that no one here seess the elegance of a new feature to have master artboatrds which would be the real solution to this problem. And since no one has shown that they think this would be a good diea I can tell you for sure with out backing from other users the chances of this feature coming to light is next to zero. Well done guys! ... View more

Edit this is an old thread but thanks to the previous post. But if you have magic mouse the option is to scroll direction: natural has to be uncheck. Thanks ... View more

Keep in mind that Paste in Place psae the object in the top of other objects in that layer so on certain occasions you might need to use the layr panel to select the other object(s) that you wish to clip. ... View more

Instead of Paste In Front use the command Paste in Place then select the blend and the copied circle and then make the Clipping Mask If you use place in front it only paste the object directly above the object being copied and then you have to use the layers panel to move the pasted copy above the blend. Paste in place will paste the object in the same position but above the blend. ... View more

That's a vrry good script but t does not allow you to resize certain artboards and not tohers and i you have to select certain artboards and not others you will eentually have to manually slect artboards, master artboartds would be ab better. However if someone had to do certain ones under current conditions one could draw a rectangle on one artboard then command copy the rectangle and either go from one artboard to the next that they needed changed and paste in place then selct all of thi=ose rectagles and go to Object>Artboards>Convert to Artboards Or draw one rectangle on one artboard and then copy and paste on all artboards and the deselect the ones you don't need with the command control click anthen convert the remaining selected to artboards then you use the artboard panel to delete the olderr version of the artboards.  The use the pnel to rearrange the artboards which will renumber the boards and respace them as well. ... View more

When you could resize the docuemtn with documant set up there were no artboards and there was only one size to the document and there was only one page in that document so you have never been able to do what you suggest but there is no reason that it could be a feature request as an enhancement for the artboard feature. Keep in mind though that a document can contain various sized artboards and that might mske the feature you suggest no easy task to develope and in order to make your feature request work you would have to think it out and suggest how this problem would be overcome with such a request. One of the major problems with this is that you can only select one artboard at a time, on the canvas that is. So if the suggestion is the resize all slect artboards this problem to would have to be overcome. The only way I think it might work is if there were master artboards and you chaned the size of the master artboard and then all the artboards belong to that master artboard type would then change which would not affect artboards belonging to another artboard type. But since the feature does not exist you have to go with Scott's answer. ... View more

By Vectorizing it you mena you perform a Live Trace on the art? if so then the wehn you expand the trace you can choose to expand and make a live paint group and fill the areas outside the boundaries you refer to with a fill of none. If you mean by Vectorize you manualy traced that elements in the jpeg with the pen tool then the areas outside the boundary are transparent. Illustrator has a transparent canvas. ... View more