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- REDWOOD
how can i expand a dashed line? in ill 10 Because every time i do that the dashed line becomes a normal full line.
Or do you have a trick for that, notice that it isn't a straight line.
THANX
- rabattski0
aha! that's something i always wanted to know as well.
- stewart0
and i say it is unpossible
- rabattski0
it is? really? i have the same thing with curved lines / boxes as well (when you use the rounded corners bit) if i outline the path the curve disappears. same thing?
- stewart0
Illy 10?
Let's try.
- rabattski0
illy 9 actually. illy 10 = too slow.
- stewart0
10 is fast as diarrhea here...
- REDWOOD0
yeah i know 10 isn't the best version but it's the only one i have
- stewart0
"i have the same thing with curved lines / boxes as well (when you use the rounded corners bit) if i outline the path the curve disappears."
i think you're the only one paul.
- menia0
you can't do this try making a small line, copy it and then ctrl+D.
- rabattski0
that is a way, more work/time intensive though. it's just that i'm paranoid. when i save an illy doc as an eps i want all the paths to be outlined. dunno why. i'm just a freak i guess. but does it actually matter? can i keep lines as lines, dotted or not? save it as an eps and work with it?
- rabattski0
stew: 10 is faster? what machine do you work on? at my studio 9 is way faster (mac os 9.2 / g4) than 10.
- rabattski0
stew: i'm going mental. have to try it in 10. but the dotted lines is the same thing regardless of version?
- REDWOOD0
No it ain't possible that way because i want to have a gradient in the dashed line and than wan't to export it to Quarck. And i only can give a line a gradient when i've outlined it. So.
BIG PROBLEMS
MY WORLD COLLAPSE
hehe
- rabattski0
do what menia said but than use those as a mask and have a gradient filled box below it. that way it should work.
- menia0
If you dont want typographers mess out with your strokes, you should outline them (the strokes or the typographers)
- REDWOOD0
THANX that's the best solution i think so.
- stewart0
paul, dotted line same here with v10
the strange thing is that when you export a dashed/dotted line to .swf and import in Flash, it works fine
and about the slow Illy 10, i have 2x1,25GHz in this machine...
you know what is extremely slow here? it's Acrobat 5, FlashMX and Netscape 7.
- rabattski0
stew: odd. flash mx runs superfast on my machine.
general illy question: if i keep all the lines as lines and export it as an eps and use it in xpress, if i resize it in xpress does it influence the line thickness as it would if you would resize it in illy itself?
- stewart0
if you resize a 0.3 pt eps line in Quark with 200% it doesn't stay 0.3 pt, no.