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Recent content by beermonster

  1. Trying to get the right color!

    crap - didnt accept a .ps file - dammit - or a zip - sod it
  2. Trying to get the right color!

    crap - attachment failed - i'll try again tomorrow - buggeration.
  3. Trying to get the right color!

    well all of the above work - mostly painful i'll agree deffo get a spectro for sure - and when you do look into katzper from nazdar - and read the instructions carefully unlike me i was doin it wrong to start with :( or use the attached to help. open the file in text edit. change the...
  4. print on glass without coating

    had fantastic success with nazdar inks. also tried sun and du pont inks and they were shocking clean the glass well with meths, make sure it's dry and away ya go just to back this up did a 3 metre lump of toughened for a kitchen - and it looked stunning have done lots on glass, smaller stuff...
  5. free grommet plugin

    illy or indy make great templates - and to be honest it's simple i make a document bigger than my banner by tape width we use - i make margins inside which represent final face size small stroked box around entire thing to trim to place a dot whatever distances in and down from top corner -...
  6. Printing Layers out of Illustrator CS3

    i may stand corrected i havent tried this but it SAYS it does what you want - good luck http://scriptbuilders.net/files/printeverylayer1.0.html
  7. Saving artboard dimensions?

    yeah thats where i was heading - was trying to get a new profile into the "new document" profiles folder as a default - then you could choose it (like choosing "web" or "print") but cant get it to read the files - did a template and put that in there too - no joy on that templates is the way
  8. Saving artboard dimensions?

    why not just save already sized pages and just double click on em and blammo - blank canvas already sized:toasting:
  9. Spot vs. process colors with transparency

    ok mac based here with illy cs3 - whats your set up? right - if the contour cut interacts with transparency then saving it as an eps will convert it to process most likely. if you can't use .ai files then your best solution is to save out as pdf higher than a version 1.3. past 1.3 and live...
  10. Choke in Illustrator - Which Way?

    oh - there's also the trap function where i think you can use negative traps (ideal for metal decorators) which is more than choke - it creates air-gaps
  11. Choke in Illustrator - Which Way?

    overprinting/ko strokes - easy really
  12. Cutting weighted outline in Illustrator.

    there we have it - 7 replies and i might have got it right :ROFLMAO:
  13. Cutting weighted outline in Illustrator.

    ya might need to ungroup it all after text to outlines
  14. Cutting weighted outline in Illustrator.

    actually - ya got me thinking - and that doesnt happen often turned text to outline select the first 2 letters, pathfinder>merge>expand select next two letters, pathfinder>merge>expand select both elements>merge>expand bingo done!
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