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So our printer needs a vector format version of our company logo, but there's never been such a thing. It was painstakingly built, a pixel at a time, many years ago using Paint, and exists today in only .bmp and .jpg forms. I figured, "This is a job for Illustrator!" and brought the bugger home tonight, since the company won't buy the product, and I happen to have a copy. I used the .bmp version first, and vectorized it successfully, but the results were less than wonderful. Next I placed a very high quality decal we had printed years ago on the scanner, set the scanning software to 4800x4800 dpi, and made a super high-res .jpg, thinking this would be good raw material for Illustrator to work with. That part worked perfectly, resulting in a large, but not unreasonable 12MB file; any modern program should be able to handle that. Not so!
I tried to open the file in Illustrator, and it refused - "Insufficient memory to complete the operation." 
Excuse me? I have 12 GB of RAM here, and no other programs running. Task Manager confirms that most of the RAM is available for Illustrator to use. I opened Help and tried searching "Insufficient Memory" but that caused an "... unknown error..." and broke Help.
This isn't surprising; it's actually fairly typical of every Adobe product I've ever attempted to use. How the heck do they stay in business?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hey, what are you complaining about? It gave you a comprehensible error message (in that you could read it)! 
A quick search on the t'interweb says "this is a common problem with Adobe, they they don't give a flying elephant"
Have you tried Corel? At least they will have different bugs... 
This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre.
Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.
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With their new business model of monthly subscriptions and no backward compatibility they will be happy to help just as soon as you sign over your bank account details.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Wonder if Paint.NET[^] would work?, I use it for anything I want to do quick but it's pretty powerful.
If that won't work you might try GIMP[^], the sites down right now (gimp.org) but you can get it about anywhere and it is a very powerful editor.
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I tried GIMP first, since I have it at work. While it seems to be an excellent replacement for Photoshop, I can't find a way to convert from an existing raster image to vector form. Both will let me create images in either form, but as far as I can tell, only Illustrator includes a tool to trace vector spaces in an existing raster image. It's a great feature, when it works. I am stumped, though, trying to get Illustrator to load a fairly small file. What a heap of crap.
What I really need to do is to sit down one weekend and build a vector image from scratch, as this is going to keep coming up as we work with outside printing firms for various things. Someone's got to do it, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You might be better off just finding a talented HS student and say 'Here's $50 bucks. Redo this image in vector format. Thanks.'
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The first serious answer here; Illustrator is 32-bit or at least the version used when the troubles began is.
Question (expect an answer): In Task Manager is there an asterisked Illustrator running?
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I'll have to check that tonight, since it's on my home machine. But that's a possible problem, I suppose. The PC and Win 7 are 64-bit, but I believe the version of Illustrator I have is 32-bit (CS5.5).
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I suppose
HA!
(hysterical)
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Yup, Illustrator.exe *32 is the process running.
So I'm guessing that this version hasn't enough bits to address all the pixels? That can't be right, since it's just 4800x4800x9 = 207360000. But then there's 24 bits of color information => 4976640000. Oops. Maybe I should rescan this thing at a lower resolution...
Will Rogers never met me.
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OK!
I'll learn youse some Illustrator then. Few short steps to some gainful output.
One, using the "Magic Wand Tool" in Photoshop, set "Tolerance" to 17 and detick the right-adjacent boxes (actually fiddle with if neccessary). On the 4800x4800 image you've selected to vectorize, pickout some feature that seems worthy of note. Remember that making a vector out of a pixelation is going to significantly dumb-down color information due to the fact that the only level of detail you will be dealing with, from the basic start, is a STROKE and possibly a FILL. That's bi-color. But you don't need to know the details now. Just choose the feature.
Now you should have a "marching ant" selection. Find the "Expand Panels" or go top menu findin' under "Window" (Alt+W) choose "Path". As long as that subpanel expands and you're not in the dark now, some rollout of a small panel should be seen on your Ps gui ... locate that and in the upper right corner make a drop by clicking the down-arrow then select "Make Work Path" and when the "Tolerance" dialog ensues type in "0.5" and take OK. Again, same menu, take "Save Path" and name it, take OK again.
Two, ALT+F+E+P (File/Export/Paths to Illustrator) and with the newly named "path" vector showing in the save dialogs' bottom selector window (yes, it's possible to create a slew of vectors and store them all in a growing .psd rendition of your original image), make sure the target is there as named. Save it somewhere. It's an .ai file of version X unless you manage to choose an earlier version.
Three, done in Ps. Save/close/etc. Now open the "path" .ai using Illustrator. Guessing you might want to resize this "white screen" (chances also are that you won't see anything at all but that's because the view mode you're in is wrong. ALT+VO (View/Outline) to see the specimen) so find "Artboard Tool" in the "Tools" panel activate it, zoom way out, and resize to anything you can see now that "Outline" is also active.
Four, trick stuff follows. Select ALL objects and find the Object Type menu (has "Compound Path" written on it and to the right has two color boxes one for FILL and the other for STROKE. See also the "Stroke" redoubt where the pixel size can be adjusted from 0.25 pt to 100 pt (it'll take 0.001 and huge too, these are the presets). And one more to the right is STYLE of the (vector) STROKE. And finally the STYLE and OPACITY ... etc (sorry ahead of time ... too much detail for a nube who isn't inclined to look up "breastwork" in Wikipedia). Find the Color panel (artist's palette icon) or shortcut F6. Choose your color poison. Since we're talking brain-fade by now and your attention is just about at it's limits, select one color for both the FRAME-thing and the SQUARE-thing (normally red-slash=transparent meaning ... nothing). Next uptick the STROKE size to say 5 px (pt .. whatever displays as units there in AZ ... rusting hulks?). Now, ALT+VV should show a colorized vector slightly fatter and hugely more coherent graphically.
Five, finally. The trickiest so far. Warning, must not be timid with SELECT and mouse use. Illustrator will not explode if you make a wrong selection or delete something that shouldn't have been deleted. You've got your CTRL+Z to aid in restoring any mistakes. Find "Direct Selection Tool" in the "Tools" and, going subselection-by-subselection (can overlap ... it's ok .. here, what's "done" is done, so to speak) ... notice, using your mouse thus, that top menu "Compound Path" changes to "Anchor Point". This is key at this stage. With that first subselection made then, click the "Convert", icon with the rounded line through the small square. This is the bezier maker. By default (imho) the type of point/line data/format/gimcrack/Adobe-appropriation is square. Making everything bezier (rouunded) essentially relaxes the (spline) vector. Grab another subselection and convert again. Repeat until all vectors are smooth. And Bob's more or less 'yer Uncle.
What to do with the vector drawing? Fiddle, fiddle, and fiddle again.
(What's all this dissing Adobe krap anyway?)
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This new phone is coming out soon, and I was wondering what you guys think of it, you can research it, you can just swap parts out it looks so cool! if a part get slower, just replace it, and if you don't want a camera, you can swap it out and get a bigger battery! I was wondering what you guys think of this phone, its like lego but with phone parts, if this phone gets released I think apple will feel the pressure, apple loves combining all their parts.
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gimmick
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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It wont come true ... planned obsolescence
YOU SHALL BUY NEW THINGS ... sry for caps
and if it comes true ... it wont be cheap right 
Give me back my Nokia 3310 ... battery for like 2 years and a cool 2d Shooter
is this a signature ?
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Yeah right.
Making parts interoperate with others costs extra. Making them interoperate well doubly so.
Connectors cost extra, good connectors doubly so. They are a common point of failure, both electric and mechanic, and take space. Good conenctors doubly so (but you can shift that over to the cost).
Besides, the majority of the market wants a phone that does, not one that could if you picked the right parts and downloaded the right app but don't you update to 0.997 because that doesn't work with the "speed" module you added (the main ingredients of which are overclocking and praying).
PhoneBlocks.com[^]
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Wow, here[^] is the video link. Doubt though how many will end up actually doing the hardware update.
Regards,
Prasad P. Khandekar
Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.
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I am an artist like make paintings and drawings and stuff, and I was wondering if programming is a type of art?
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I may be just as easily as drawing and writing may not.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Murder is art to the murderer. [Edit: Serial killers at least, been watching Dexter lately)
A man who makes hamburgers sees art in the ketchup.
It really depends on what your definition of "art" is. Is it art in the same way a painting is? In my opinion, no, but it is art in the same way that a good novel is.
modified 13-Sep-13 0:27am.
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: something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings
: skill acquired by experience, study, or observation
: a branch of learning
: learning, scholarship an occupation requiring knowledge or skill
: the conscious use of skill and creative imagination
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Mine is, for sure. Everyone else's is pure junk. 
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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Some pretty  art in there!
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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It can be, much the same way architecture, woodworking, and say... graffiti can be consider art.
For most programmers, programming is simply a craft.
When aesthetics of the program or code are considered then it becomes art.
To know and not do, is not yet to know
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Art doesn't take efficiency into account.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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