Entries about illustrator

Mar 9, 2007

Where is Illustrator’s auto-recovery feature?

InDesign’s auto-recovery feature has saved me several times from utter design despair. This is why, along with recent heartbreaking crashes, I’m frustrated with Adobe for not incorporating the same recovery feature in Illustrator.

Will the new CS3 sport this feature? Probably not. According to LenHewitt on Adobe’s forums, there are some major technical limitations:

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Feb 28, 2007

How to create multi-page PDFs in Illustrator CS2

While Adobe remains deaf to years of pleading for true multiple-page support in Illustrator, they’ve slipped in a little-known feature you might have missed. Adobe Illustrator CS2 now lets you save multiple-page PDFs.

Here’s how to do it in three easy steps:

1. Set the document size

Since Illustrator doesn’t have true pages, you’ll have to cheat by […]

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