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She shouldn't have used GIFs in the first place since GIFs are an archaic format that doesn't support alpha channel transparency. That means you can't AA curves or diagonals without using a matte colo …

The proper way to do it IMO is to use separate artboards for the different sizes. You can create a template with artboards for all the standard sizes, guides for the margins and all the shared styles …

It looks pretty good on my computer: Given the limitations of rasterized text, this is about as good as it gets. Different typefaces are better suited for small font sizes, and unless you have subp …

If you're using it for a logo, then you're probably being paid enough to clean it up by hand (using the ellipse tool). Or, do it the smart way, and just get the Phantasm CS plugin, which has a vector …

Adobe InDesign has a maximum dimension of 216 inches / 15552 pts / 5486.4 mm (18 feet). You should be able to just drop the vector object in InDesign and scale it to the size you want. Not sure what …

I hadn't realized this bug existed on the Mac version of Illustrator before (I'm a Windows user, but I also never use this feature since I generally have about 100+ fonts active at any given time, so …

There's really no need to use layer comps in Illustrator. Illustrator and Fireworks and InDesign support symbols. So you can simply save your different visual components as symbols and mix and match t …

Illustrator and pretty much 99.99% of all programs that aren't font managers simply use the OS's list of installed/active fonts. If they didn't, you'd need to install & activate fonts in 50 different …

PowerPoint and probably many other slideshow programs (e.g. Impress) can import PDF content. Current versions of Illustrator save .ai files in a format very similar to PDFs, and you can also save wit …

I'm not an expert on 3D rendering or optics, but most-likely that setting represents the angle of view being simulated. The larger the angle of view, the greater the perspective distortion. This is s …

Certain font managers like Extensis Suitcase Fusion come with plugins for Illustrator and other design programs that allow you to collect fonts as well as dynamically activate fonts when you load a do …

What you're referring to aren't really grids; they're construction guides. The grid is just what's formed by the horizontal and vertical components. And while some of these construction guides look r …

I recently ran into this exact issue with a client, and it took great effort to convince the client and another designer against it. Basically, we were engaging in a brand development project for a c …

In Photoshop Extended, you can also use the count tool to label your guides. The count tool lets you create different count groups, and each group can be set to a different size/color. You can also se …