Category Archives: illustrator

scriptographer update

By lesterbanks | Published: February 16, 2010
Scriptographer, the scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator, updated to version 2.6 today with many changes that increase stability. For those of you unfamiliar with Scriptographer, Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator that gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects [...]
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adobe community leaders summit wrap up on pvc

By lesterbanks | Published: February 7, 2010
ProVideo Coalition has a great post on what was gleamed from the Adobe Community Leaders Summit that took place last week. Some great insight into 64-bit applications, 64-bit plugins, Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe Repoussé, and the new Flash Catalyst.
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scripting in illustrator, a few resources

By lesterbanks | Published: January 6, 2010
A little while ago a question came up on how to draw an archimedean spiral in illustrator. Of course illustrator has a tool for creating spirals, however they are not Archimedean where the line moves away from the center at a constant speed. Of course this can be done by scripting in illustrator, in fact you can [...]
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freehand vs illustrator: its still on

By lesterbanks | Published: January 6, 2010
I love that this fight still continues, even after freehand’s death in 2005 or so. I really believe that it speaks volumes when an application that hasn’t been updated five years can still run on modern operating systems, and still has features and workflow that illustrator can’t seem to match as an up-to-date modern graphics [...]
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