"cropping" vector data

I have some nautical charts I'm working with (NOAA ENCs that were converted to SVG then to Illustrator). I'm in CS2.
While the file sizes aren't too bad, the files are apparently very complex and are making things extremely slow and unresponsive, even in outline mode.
I would like to "crop" the charts into more manageable portions, but am finding it difficult using the selection tool to try and select objects outside of a given area that I want to preserve.
Is there a way to create a box or boundary and delete all data outside that box?
The problem I've been having is that if an object within the box extends beyond it, I cannot select the portion of the object outside the box without selecting the entire object.
Thanks.

> I can't believe here isn't a simple way to draw a rectangular shape in an Illustrator file and remove everything that doesn't fall within the bounds of the crop area.
Believe it.
Illustrator has three cutting tools now residing in the main toolbox and all of them have serious flaws/limitations compared to simpler and fewer cutting tools in all its competing programs. The Scissor can only cut one path at a time. The Knife can cut across multiple paths at once, but in doing so can't cut open unfilled paths. The new Eraser can't be set to zero width, and unpredictably distorts the shape of the UNerased remains.
Pathfinders are all affected by a confused array of caveats regarding the treatment of strokes and/or open paths. So while some of them can cut and/or allow you to afterward delete the unwanted deadwood, you will likey have to re-apply stroke/fill attributes to individual objects in the results.
The problems center around Illustrator's seemingly foundational inability to handle open paths and strokes as expected. If the artwork is not simple enough for you to keep track of which paths should have particular stroke/fill attributes, Pathfinders are only reliable as cutting/cropping/trimming tools if you first outline all strokes-- especially of open paths--so that they become closed, filled, unstroked paths. But that is often unacceptable to me, especially in projects like maps.
I have long puzzled over why Illustrator is so awkwardly limited in this regard. Other programs handle these triming tasks intuitively, whether the content paths are open/closed/stroked/unstroked.
JET

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How do i prevent [] from appearing in output when reading vector data?

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public void saveFile(File file)
try
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Vector line = null;
int i =0;
while (i < data.size())
line = (Vector)data.get(i);
System.out.println("What is line ? " +line);
i++;
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out.println(line);
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[Name , adres , Zip code, City , Phone , email]
I do not want to write the [ ] to my output file, because they appear in my table when i read the file again.
Thanks in advance.
regards,
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Hi Chuck,
Thanks for your answer but I do not know what you mean.
I assume you mean that I have to change something in the next line:
line = (Vector)data.get(i);
But I have no clue how to do that. So "simply examine the contents and print each of them how you want them to appear." sounds good but I do not know how to do that.
Could you please be a litlle more specific?
Thanks.
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Hw can I generate XY graphs directly in a vector data format for printing ie pdf

A further question re. Printing of Graphs
There are many similar questions but none where the answers are acceptably adiquite or two or three were the link was broken,
"Developer exchange forums have been moved" and a pointer to the new
site, unfort it was hard to find or guess the rest of the link.
So here is my angle on this problem;
So far I have tried;
Using property node: "App. Printing.Default Printer" to select the printer to use, then
Using Report Functions to print controls;
New Report, to generate a new report reference
Set Report Orientation
Set Report Margins
Set Report Font
Set Report Header Text
Set Report Font
Set Report Footer Text
loop for each page
Set Report Footer Text, With page number
Append Control Image to Report, several times
New Report Page
Until the end of the last page
Print Report
Dispose Report
Initially using existing XY-Graph controls from the front panel. These
are on a page of a Tab control to hide these controls while not in use
and allow them to be hidden while generating the printout.
Unfortunately when this page is hidden any graph scales set to
autoscale don't, (normally don't need to and would otherwise be a waste
of processor time), resulting in graph plots going off scale or
becoming a line along the axis.
An issue is that what is printed appears to be read from the screen, so resolution is much
lower than required for for printing, resulting in rather pixellated
printed versions. These prints will usually be emailed, so tried the
pdf995 "printer driver" but the resulting pdf file size is rather large.
Currently trying Plot-XY on a much larger picture so as to get
adequate resolution for printing, however suspect this will result in
much larger pdf files and probably cause other problems.
The preferred solution in this case will probably be to generate print
output, instead of based on raster images (ie jpg or png), but on a
vector format, maybe via postscript or directly in pdf format.
Similar graphs currently printed from Excel via pdf995
(or OpenOffice) result in files around 20 kb per page. these can be printed at any size
(at least upto 64 times) without becoming pixellated, so assume these
are vector based.
Currently a page with 4 XY Graph controls uses around 40 to 45 kb per
page but resolution is poor and overcoming that may push file size up
to 150 to 200 kb per page, and the whole job can be 50 to 100 pages.
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Cheers
Darryl

Hi Darryl,
I was able to reproduce the issue you were seeing, in which a report generation was taking up a large amount of space per page in a PDF utility. I found; however, using my attached VI (notice that it is set to *.png) and the CutePDF utility (free download at http://www.cutepdf.com/) I was able to get a per page size of about 10 KB. Also using the png I found that the image quality seemed to be quite high.
Please try incorporating this solution into your application and see if it reduces your file sizes.
Thanks and have a good evening!
Cheers,
Jonah
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Jonah Paul
Marketing Manager, Embedded Software
Evaluate the LabVIEW RIO Platform! - ni.com/rioeval
Attachments:
print_XY Graph.vi ‏23 KB

Save as EPS - Include Vector Data - Printing problems

Hey everyone
I'm having an issue with PDFs that I send to a specific newspaper and only them. The problem only occurs in the vector data that is saved in the EPS to be distilled.
Here's an overview of my workflow
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*Save EPS with Preview:Macintosh(8Bits);Encoding: ASCII85; Include Vector Data; all other options not checked
*Distill EPS to Press Quality PDF
*Send to newspaper
The problem looks like their RIP is choking on the vector data (primarily text) in the ad. It appears to start to print the text and then just stops or prints a bunch of garbage where the text should be.
I have their in-house Distiller settings and use those now instead of Press Quality. This should rule out any problems with the Distiller settings.
I send dozens of PDFs a week to multiple publications and only have trouble with this one. Is it possible that the "Preview" and/or "Encoding" in the EPS is the problem? Any suggestions what the bare bones settings should be for "Preview" and "Encoding" for the EPS? I want to keep the Vector Data b/c the outputted text remains crisp.
Thanks!

I agree with Mike.
A lot of newspapers are not making a lot of profit and, as a result, may not have up-to-date RIPs. This is demonstrated by your statement that this is the only publication you have problems with.
If your only concern is file size, know that either way, you're dealing with small files. Try the direct-from-Photoshop route with the paper and see what happens. Get the production guru at the paper to work with you on solving the problem.
Also, what happens if you Distill the file as an industry-standard PDF/X-1a file. If you see that the file is compliant, you shouldn't have a problem.
Neil

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Thanks

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Need help trying to "include Vector Data" when saving as an EPS? Anyone?

Although I have done this many times before, I cannot seem to figure out why the check box "include vector data" is greyed out. I am working in CMYK - I have placed my corporate logo as a smart object as usual - and none of my layers have effects applied. Scratching my head right now. This is a large format poster so I will definately need to resolve this somehow. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Ornellas wrote:
You have to have a layer with a vector mask applied to it for the feature to show up.
Or live text or a clipping path.
Copy the logo from Illustrator to Photoshop. When asked, say you want a Shape Layer (I forget the exact wording). If the logo must be more than one colour, duplicate the layer for each additional colour and, on each layer, delete all path segments that are not needed for that particular colour. Group the layers in a folder for easy moving and scaling.
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Affine transformation with vector data

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The example in the Spatial Developer's Guide is working so far. But if I change the SCALING parameter to TRUE I got a exception:
Fehler beim Start in Zeile 2 in Befehl:
SELECT SDO_UTIL.AFFINETRANSFORMS(
geometry => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(
1.5,0,
2.5,1,
1.5,2,
0.5,2,
0.5,0,
1.5,0)),
translation => 'FALSE',
tx => 0.0,
ty => 0.0,
tz => 0.0,
scaling => 'TRUE',
psc1 => NULL,
sx => 0.5,
sy => 0.5,
sz => null,
rotation => 'FALSE',
p1 => NULL,
line1 => NULL,
angle => 0.0,
dir => 0,
shearing => 'FALSE',
shxy => 0.0,
shyx => 0.0,
shxz => 0.0,
shzx => 0.0,
shyz => 0.0,
shzy => 0.0,
reflection => 'FALSE',
pref => NULL,
lineR => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2002,0,NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,2,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(2.5,0.0,2.5,2.0)),
dirR => 0,
planeR => 'FALSE',
n => NULL,
bigD => NULL
) FROM DUAL
Fehlerbericht:
SQL-Fehler: ORA-29532: Java call terminated by uncaught Java exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
ORA-06512: at "MDSYS.SDO_UTIL", line 265
29532. 00000 - "Java call terminated by uncaught Java exception: %s"
*Cause:    A Java exception or error was signaled and could not be
           resolved by the Java code.
*Action:   Modify Java code, if this behavior is not intended.The methods TRANSLATION and REFLECTION are working - SCALING, ROTATION and SHEARING are not working.
I test it on Oracle 11.1.0.7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 R2.
Maybe it's a similar problem which is described in Bug 9146920 on My Oracle Support.
Has anybody had a similar problem?
Regards,
Cord

Hi,-
Please define psc1 instead of psc1 => NULL like:
psc1 =>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(0,0)),if you want scaling with respect to origin.
Define psc1 like:
psc1 =>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(0.6,0)),if you want scaling with respect to another point (i.e., point *(0.6, 0)* which is) on your geometry.
Please note that psc1 has to be on the geometry, and it can be any point
other than the vertices of your geometry.
Next, note also that you should _specify sz as zero even if you donot use it for 2D_ as you will see in the below examples.
Hope that this helps and please let us know if you have further problems.
I tried with (0,0) point for psc1 as follows:
SELECT SDO_UTIL.AFFINETRANSFORMS(
geometry => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(
1.5,0,
2.5,1,
1.5,2,
0.5,2,
0.5,0,
1.5,0)),
translation => 'FALSE',
tx => 0.0,
ty => 0.0,
tz => 0.0,
scaling => 'TRUE',
psc1 =>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(0,0)),
sx => 0.5,
sy => 0.5,
sz => 0.0,
rotation => 'FALSE',
p1 => NULL,
line1 => NULL,
angle => 0.0,
dir => 0,
shearing => 'FALSE',
shxy => 0.0,
shyx => 0.0,
shxz => 0.0,
shzx => 0.0,
shyz => 0.0,
shzy => 0.0,
reflection => 'FALSE',
pref => NULL,
lineR => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2002,0,NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,2,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(2.5,0.0,2.5,2.0)),
dirR => 0,
planeR => 'FALSE',
n => NULL,
bigD => NULL
) FROM DUAL;
SDO_UTIL.AFFINETRANSFORMS(GEOMETRY=>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,NULL,NULL,MDSYS.SDO_
SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, NULL, NULL, SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 1),
SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(.75, 0, 1.25, .5, .75, 1, .25, 1, .25, 0, .75, 0))
With (0.6,0) point for psc1, you will get:
SELECT SDO_UTIL.AFFINETRANSFORMS(
geometry => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(
1.5,0,
2.5,1,
1.5,2,
0.5,2,
0.5,0,
1.5,0)),
translation => 'FALSE',
tx => 0.0,
ty => 0.0,
tz => 0.0,
scaling => 'TRUE',
psc1 =>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, NULL, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(0.6,0)),
sx => 0.5,
sy => 0.5,
sz => 0.0,
rotation => 'FALSE',
p1 => NULL,
line1 => NULL,
angle => 0.0,
dir => 0,
shearing => 'FALSE',
shxy => 0.0,
shyx => 0.0,
shxz => 0.0,
shzx => 0.0,
shyz => 0.0,
shzy => 0.0,
reflection => 'FALSE',
pref => NULL,
lineR => MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2002,0,NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,2,1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(2.5,0.0,2.5,2.0)),
dirR => 0,
planeR => 'FALSE',
n => NULL,
bigD => NULL
) FROM DUAL;
SDO_UTIL.AFFINETRANSFORMS(GEOMETRY=>MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,NULL,NULL,MDSYS.SDO_
SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, NULL, NULL, SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 1),
SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(1.05, 0, 1.55, .5, 1.05, 1, .55, 1, .55, 0, 1.05, 0))Best regards
baris

Photoshop EPS not saving vector data?

I have a Photoshop CS3 file with 2 layers that use vector masks. I saved the file as an .eps and checked "Include Vector Data." I placed the .eps in an InDesign document. On screen everything looks fine, but if I print to PDF the vector mask layers are missing; likewise if I open/rasterize the .eps file in Photoshop the vector mask layers are gone. It prints fine if I place the original .psd file in the InDesign doc. Any ideas why .eps doesn't appear to save the vector data? Thanks...

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I've done some research, and have the feeling that what I'm asking for is not possible, but I just wanted to make sure, and see what other options there may be.
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(34,567,345)
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I have completely no idea what you mean by rubber banding. But you shouldn't be creating a BufferedImage and parsing a file inside of a gui component's paint function.
one more thing if i used affinetransform it is simply zooming completely distorting my map defeating entire purpose.AffineTransform is a transformation from one 2D coordinate system to another. It probably wont be as useful in a 3D environment such as your vector data file.

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Hi all
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Step1:
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private String passW;
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this.passW= passW;
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import java.io.*;
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public Hosp(){
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Step4 :
public interface GateKeeper{
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public String retrieveAllUserP();
Step5:
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
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hosp= new Hosp();
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if(passW.equals(""))
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allUser = allUser +"\n"+"\n"+"UserCode:"+user.getUserCode()+" "+" "+"UserPassword:"+user.getPassW()+"\n";
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import java.util.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
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private GateKeeperImpl gate= new GateKeeperImpl();
private JButton jButton1 = new JButton();
private JButton jButton2 = new JButton();
private JTextField sSfied = new JTextField();
private JTextField pWfied = new JTextField();
//Construct the frame
public HospFrame1() {
//The rest of the code comes here
//The rest of the action method that used to implement also comes here.
Step 7:
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
public class Testing{
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
HospFrame1 hops=new HospFrame1();
try
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FileOutputStream sFile = new FileOutputStream("theData.dat");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(sFile);
oos.writeObject(hops);
oos.close();
catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
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//to read data from previous save file
FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("theData.dat");
ObjectInputStream yess = new ObjectInputStream(fin);
hops =(HospFrame1) yess.readObject();
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Access vector data from AI or EPS

Hi!
Does anyone know if we can access vector data from AI or EPS files, to be used with an effect plugin? Shachar may be?
I've looked at Streams and DynamicStreams, but couldn't find anything...
Thanx,
François

again, i find myself the bearer of bad news...
AE deson't offer any in-depth access of the format parsers. you can only ask AE to fetch you a rendered image via it's parsers. (i.e. IO and FBIO plug-ins)
but since you can find the path to the origin file using AE's suites, you can parse it yourself. (NOT going to be easy)
from what i gathered, Ghostscript is the API to go with.
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/API.htm
has been discussed here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4246544?tstart=0
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How to export vector data?

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Additional to File > Save As > .ai, if you have Illustrator, you can select your vector data in Fw, then Edit > Copy As Vectors, then Paste into Illustrator.
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