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Warping Text using Illustrator CS3
Monday, October 8th, 2007Strangely, the most hit page during the most recent week has been my "how-to" warp text with Adobe Illustrator 10.
Adobe, in Illustrator 11, 12 and 13 (aka CS, CS2 and CS3) have dramatically simplified the process of warping text:
Firstly, you have some text in a Text Frame:
Whilst the frame is selected, there is a new [...]
Illustrator is NOT a layout tool
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003Repeat after me: Illustrator is not a layout tool. It is an illustration tool. InDesign is a layout tool.
Now Mac Users repeat after me: Use file extensions. The +95% of the world don't use a Mac, and even MacOS X prefers them...
Cari Jansen: More “stuff”
Monday, April 21st, 2003Happy xth birthday, Avril! Readers will have to guess the x.
Cari Jansen has found some time to create her web site. She has already placed two techniques there: Adobe InDesign 2.x - Scaling and resizing images in InDesign and Adobe Illustrator 10.x - using appearance & styles to make a simple roadmap
Adobe Tips
Sunday, August 4th, 2002As promised, I am starting to document the techniques shown at the recent Adobe roadshows
Illustrator 10: Illustrator 10: Making Good Text Go Bad. Photoshop 7: Photoshop 7 File Browser Automatic Numbering Technique
Apart from writing the above articles, I decided to noodle around with the GD library that is a part of PHP4. GD [...]
Scripting Colour Changes in Illustrator
Wednesday, January 9th, 2002Something from the archives of my email. Scripting Spot Colour Changes in Illustrator 10
Warping Text using Illustrator 10’s Warping Tools
Wednesday, December 26th, 2001NOTE: Technique for the latest version of Illustrator CS3
Adobe Illustrator 10 has a collection of new Warping tools. These tools do not directly work with text. At first, this looks like a serious ommission. But hark! There is a little technique that will serve us well.
Firstly, let's assume you have created some text in your Illustrator document.
Create a [...]
