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  1. File is damaged and cannot open?

    ok i'd do some work on your computer - run applejack or onyx - if you're mack based - might help clean up things and stop the crashes take a look at the crash report too - it might give clues ya know cs3 comes with version cue right? allows automated incremental saving, which basically rewinds...
  2. How do I create . . .

    i'll drink to that!:beer get in the habit of doing non-destructive affects - learn how to create stuff with layers so it remains editable for tweaks etc or just drink lots and squint a bit:clapping:
  3. Paste Back In Same Place?

    pop it onto it's own layer temporarily - hide layer no need to cut/paste (if you cut it there's nothing to paste in front/behind of)
  4. Ai - Collecting linked images for output

    personally speaking, and i run a prepress dept for litho and uv inkjets - i want everything in illustrator - for packaging illy is superb (even an artpro op is now converted to illy after i taught him - he cant see the point in artpro for where we are now) as for the "collect" - ya know -...
  5. AGFA buys Gandi

    fuji does indeed re-badge screen ctp devices - BUT so does agfa ive seen the screen uv machines - good but expensive. personally, on my litho side here - i'm a huge screen fan have had 2 screen imagesetter and now a screen CTP system (platerite 8000II) using agfa azura ts plates - in my...
  6. Color Management Question

    this is a handy illy script - after installing select the item with the colour (if it aint an original illy file then get a reading of the colour and create it in illy) then run the script - it will find the nearest matches for you...
  7. What did I do?

    or this: . Make a copy of the file and place it on the desktop of the boot drive. 2. Try opening up the document from within Photoshop; As a Smart Object (If it opens, it will open flattened and not layered, don't panic) 3. Close the file (If the next step doesn't work, you can always go back...
  8. What did I do?

    try this: open photoshop, then go to "file" > "open as". select your psd-file, but then change the file-type to jpeg. (choose "open as" >jpeg).
  9. What did I do?

    system? versions? computers? a little more info please sir:rock-n-roll:
  10. AI "An unkwown error has occured"

    ok all the above is good info try, out of some other app, to save something to the drive - just to make sure the drive is ok - ok? - ok good lol trash preference files and start over - always a good start point fonts...ahh the dreaded - check these are ok always work locally then copy file to...
  11. Hello from England

    welcome from....ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!! wahoo more brits - we're taking over
  12. Just curious how adobe users do this...

    yes bigdawgs way works - or you can simply mask the background and save as a psd - both ways should work - personally again i prefer masking and psd, it just depends i guess job by job, but litho prepress here and its all psd's these days - eps is on the way out
  13. Need some advice please

    you could rasterize straight out of illy.....if thats the way ya wanna go, and add the cutter
  14. Just curious how adobe users do this...

    yep - several ways - all work - personally i use the paths to illy method - its my preferred way
  15. Opinions on Rastek H650

    ok not wanting to pour bad info but these are the ex-raster/daytona machines i think - efi just bought them out - i think there were/are serious build issues on the machines from electronic board failures to a few other things too - i'd recommend thorough testing i'm certain i read some issues...
  16. Redundant Lines

    slick - i like it :)
  17. Redundant Lines

    keep it simple - select the things you DO want - put on another layer, lock layer, delete layer containing the bits you do NOT want illy needs the handy freehand function of being able to select "broken" lines and converting instantly to solid lines - needed that function for a while
  18. Weird illustrator problem

    had this too trash the prefs and reboot - no need for fresh install - thats a route taken too soon/easily if the file is a legacy file you may need to use the expand feature, and expand strokes and fills
  19. Illustrator and blur? Why does it take so long to save?

    a word of warning on blurs lets pretend you have an image with a drop shadow blur - its portrait for this example. you decide to make the shadow nudged right and down from the object ok. THEN you decide to step this over a sheet and the best way to fit is to rotate all the graphics and step...
  20. long time adobe user WOWed by corel x4

    i love people desighning in rgb and then converting to rgb - all them 4 colour blacks to muck about with - beautiful
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