This article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls The last tip in this series – which we hope you’ve enjoyed and found of use – simply contains two main points (you’ve read enough, we’re sure!)…
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls It is common for Adobe Illustrator documents to contain multiple instances of the same raster image. Duplicating artwork (including vector) features an inherent danger; if all instances need to be updated in a synchronized manner, there is a [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls Do you remember when as a young child, you played with poster paints and liberally squirted the tube of runny paint all over the cheap wall covering paper ripped off from the roll? Now they would call it [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls A common requirement for designers and publishers is to convert artwork into pure grayscale, or “greyscale” if you’re on our side of the pond. This process may at first glance appear to be simple and fool-proof using Illustrator’s [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls Overprinting black text and other objects can ensure quality print jobs. It’s often the simplest way to ensure crisp results and is a age-old work-around for the issue of mis-registration on a print press – a topic discussed [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls No – it’s nothing to do with a color’s financial status. “Rich black” refers to a deep black defined in CMYK using a high levels of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Wikipedia features this page to describe rich [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls The joys of personal experience. Somehow life manages to dig out a series of problems thousands or millions of others have already discovered to their cost, yet keep some apparently new situations just for you. So this lighter [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls Adobe Illustrator can contain two forms of artwork: Embedded: the most common type and by default anything drawn directly within Illustrator using, say, the pen tool is technically embedded and an integral part of the document Linked: an [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls Images can be either linked (ie. external) or embedded in Adobe Illustrator documents. Both methods have their pros and cons, but embedded images are common and often have to be adjusted. It’s a strange fact that Adobe never [...]
Read MoreThis article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls What better place to start this series of tips on avoiding publishing pitfalls in Adobe Illustrator than one of the most common: “overprint white”?
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