I am using AI for creating FXG to use in Flash app.
My question is, is it possible to mark objects in FXG that should not scale?
For example, if I have two rectangles Rect1 and Rect2, I want to scale only Rect1 while Rect2 stays at the same size when scaling.
win 7 SP2; AI CS6.
Upon saving, usually there is a progress box in the middle of the screen. It appears after the save begins. Usually the box shows the progress is about half way along, and shortly, it gets to the end, then after a few moments, it eventually disappears and all is saved. However, occasionally, the toolboxes turn black and even flash during the saving process!
It's very strange. I have dual monitors on the computer; the left monitor is for the main application and the right is where I keep all the tool panels, mainly layers, appearance, glyphs, navigator/info, transparency, character/paragraph/opentype, document info/attributes, brushes, graphic styles, gradient and stroke with appearance. I have the UI set to light grey to work with.
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2) Open FXG in Illustartor
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4) Open in Photoshop and Color.
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I have placed this image in indesign and illustrator and generated a high quality print (PDF) with dimensions 643 mm x 577 mm (as printing company works at 10%).
This is a close up of the image:
There is pixelation.
My questions are
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