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When you have experience with Vista, newest Operating System from Windows, you may found many problem on running Illustrator. Start from Illustrator 12, CS2 or maybe CS3. I just run Illustrator 10 on my Vista. And it just doing fine. Different when i try running CS2, some problem occurred. None of my previous files will open. You could try running illustrator in compatability mode, or just disabling the desktop thing that Vista does with all the fancy transparancies. Or for better experience, you can find "Vista issues" on Adobe Forum .

If you are willing to have a nice 3d effect on your blue box (for example) you''ll see an ugly shape of your box. Is that keep happening when we use 3d effect? Surely no. You can try another trick to get better result. 1. Try using Shading. Turn it off. Or leave it on and expand the graphic. Then select what was your bright blue box and make it bright blue again. 2. Adjust lighting. You could also use the 3D effect as a tracing template and re-draw without the effect. This will give you better control over colour and appearance, but less flexibility if you want to adjust the perspective or rotation.

When you decide what file format to be printed out on paper, please make sure to choose in Jpg/jpeg format. You may save gif or png on high resolution format, but when you print on paper you will find out the different. Png or gif is a web format and isn't ideal for print. Most printers will tell you no. So you better choose Jpg/jpeg format. In Illustrator you can select File -> Save for Web and in Setting box select Jpg with 70 or 80 quality.

Thomas Phinney, Program Manager Fonts & Core Technologies from Adobe Systems tell about why the text fattens when you convert to outlines. TWO things happen when you outline fonts: - loss of hinting - change in fill algorithm The loss of hinting makes certain features potentially inconsistent. For example, letter strokes that you expect to be the same width might turn out to be different widths depending on how they fall on the grid of the output device. Slight differences can get magnified unexpectedly, like rounded letters going below the baseline. This happens because the information that makes the outlines round consistently to the pixel grid has been lost. The change in the fill algorithm combines with the lack of hinting to make the letters look fatter. Font rasterizing uses a fill algorithm that turns on a pixel only when the center of the pixel is within the glyph outline (center-scan). Graphics rasterizing uses a fill algorithm that turns on a pixel when any part of the

Harron K. Applemann has a good trick to toogle shortcut on Illustrator : In AI 10, while you're holding down the Ctrl key in text mode, you can toggle between the direct and regular selection tools by hitting the Tab key. In AI 12, while you're holding down the Ctrl key in text mode, you can toggle by additionally holding down the Alt key, then hitting Tab. (Note that while Ctrl and Alt are both held down when the direct selection tool is toggled, you will actually have the group selection tool until you let go of Alt.) Note that you can also click inside the toolbox while you're holding down Ctrl in text mode to select another tool.