Adding bevel & emboss fx to text in AI
I can do this so easily in PS and ID. Where is this feature hidden in AI CS4?
Thanks in advance!
You don't seem to get this.
You open up the Illustrator Folder
You Right or Control Click on the Adobe Illustrator Application Icon.
Go to Show Packages
As for the example I showed it is only to show you that you can make a custom profile it was not to show you the exact profile that you have to figure out.
It was one I had already made for myself! Here is a little video.
This is very simple but it requires that you apply yourself to it. And please do not be so literal!
http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/Profile.mov
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"RogerLS" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> When using some of my templates I have no problem in
putting a small
> graphic (a
> pdf icon) in-line with text. Yet with others the
insertion of the same
> small
> graphic forces a newline before and after the graphic.
>
> If the text and image is placed in an editable region of
the template,
> but
> not within a table cell all is ok.
>
> If the text and image is place within a table cell
within the editable
> region
> the problem arises. I am sure there is something I have
specified
> incorrectly
> but cannot discover what it is.
>
> An example of where it works fine is:
> www.digitalfox.co.uk/parryassociates/products.htm
>
> An example of where it doesn't work is:
> www.bournemouthlittletheatre.co.uk/membership2.htm
>
> I am using Dreamweaver 8 within Studio 8 and run under
Windows XP.
>
> Can anyone help please?
>
> Regards
> Roger Sansom
>
>
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