CS4 How to Paste Inside like Freehand

How do you "Paste inside" like the old Freehand?

in clipping masks and groups, double click with the black arrow to get inside de mask/group, keep double clicking if there's more groups till you get to the desired position and paste. double click on an empty area to come back out of the mask/group.

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How to "paste inside" like in Freehand

In Freehand you cut paste inside (cut a larger object and paste it inside of a smaller object). How do you do this in Illustator?
Thanks!

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It seems as if you haven't been an Illustrator user from the beginning, you're left in the dust.
Many who have been Illustrator users from the beginning have been left in the dust ever since--and just don't know it. ;-)
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I really hope Adobe lets someone who is capable and cares to take the reigns of Freehand and resurrect the best drawing program ever!
Gag me.
Mainstream 2D vector drawing was set back a decade when FreeHand's competitive development was discontinued. But I'm not interested in returning to 10 years ago, even though in many important ways doing so would still leapfrog Illustrator's current functionality.
In other words, I'm not interested in a ressurrection of FreeHand per se. FreeHand had its problems, too, albeit far less than Illustrator. For example: Tell me how to, in FreeHand, call for a straight single-segment path in terms of length and angle. Tell me how to specify a movement in terms of direction and distance. That's pretty basic stuff, wouldn't you say?
The fact is, mainstream 2D vector drawing is stagnant and has been for many years. There is no mainstream 2D vector drawing progam I would call no-nonsense, full-featured, industrial-strength. There should be--and should have been long before now--but there isn't. The whole category is cheezy grade-school crap. This is largely due to Illustrator's market dominance. But the blame for "market dominance" falls to the addicted-to-mediocrity market, not to the vendor. If users don't demand better, they won't get it.
As for the clipping path thing: The largest problem (display of masked portion) has at long last been corrected. It took decades for this to occur. The stupid and backward behavior of stripping the clipping path of its appearance still needs to be reversed. But there are many similarly inefficient, inelegant, cumbersome and tedious behaviors in AI. Given AI's development history, how many decades will it take to correct them all?
I don't have that much time. A new-from-the-ground-up, truly industrial-strength (truly "professional") 2D drawing program is sorely needed to re-invigorate this important graphics segment.
JET

[DW CS4] How to search inside the .htaccess files?

Hi,
In Dreamweaver CS4, when I open an .htaccess file, and search for text "Inside Current Document", Dreamweaver finds and replaces them, no problem.
But when I apply same search to a folder or whole site, Dreamweaver cannot find anything, even the text in already opened document.
.htaccess files are neither hidden nor read-only.
Any way to get around this?
I have to find-replace some texts in couple of hundreds .htaccess files site-wide.
Thanks.

I think ( could be wrong), that .htaccess is not a recognised DW file extension so it dosn't know to do a search for those files.
I do believe that you can set up DW to recognise different file extensions via the preferences panel.
Actually looking at my own preferences, htaccess is one of the files in the list- so it does recognise it (because I know I didn't add that - unless it was added when I installed WAMP).
See if you have the same. If not, then I'm not sure why it's not finding your 'search and replace' text.
The only other suggestion would be to use a good text editor with the ability to do 'search and replace'. (sorry :-)

Freehand MX paste inside problemto fix

Suddenly my Freehand MX paste inside cannot work. When I move the paste inside object, the picture inside don't move. Please help me.

Hi Perry,
The behavior of pasted-inside contents is controlled by the ‘Contents’ checkbox in the Transform panel.
Open the Transform panel
Click on the Move icon
Check the ‘Contents’ checkbox
The other transform actions like scale and rotate also allow you to control the behavior of contents. This is very handy, because sometimes you will want to move or scale the clipping path without moving the contents.
Judy Arndt

I want to open a folder and see how many times theres inside like you could before...

I want to open a folder and see how many items theres inside like you could before...
How can you do that on maverick plz ?

Open it and choose Show Status Bar from the Finder's View menu.
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What is Illustrator's equivalent to Freehands "Paste Inside" feature?

I'm really new to Illustrator, having come over from Freehand MX (which no longer works on my OSX software), so I'm a little lost. Can anyone tell me if Illustrator has a feature that is the equivalent of Freehand's "Paste Inside" feature? I'm desperate! Thanks!

If you have CS5, it has a 'draw inside' feature, this is just automaticially making a mask from the object. (the paint tool and text works but with shapes you need to copy and paste them inside, which is what you're looking for.)
Hope you got your answer.

How to paste a text in a selected textframe

Hi, for a new script I would like to paste some text in a textFrame.
I would like to select my text, copy it and run my script.
My script locate a textframe, select it.
I don't know how to paste in the content of the selected textframe.
app.paste();
Paste is OK, but it create a new textframe while the block is well selected.
Can you help me?
thx!

So it works the same as it does in the interface itself. Try it: copy text, select (but do not enter) a text frame, hit Paste. A new text frame appears.
To get what you want, you need to put the text cursor inside your selected frame. That's not a function but fortunately this weird-looking command works:
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].select();
app.paste();

Can't move objects after Pasting inside?

Using CS5.5,
I made a series of shapes like the attached one, and then I select the outer square shape and I choose to edit>paste inside the shape. I then group all of the pieces making up the shapes and I want to move it to a lower portion of my document, though when I do this the image does not come along with the shape and text.
What am I doing wrong? How should I be doing this?
Thanks.

Remember: The Layers panel is your friend! The Paste Inside command creates a mask, which is a special type of group. To move your image independently from its mask—in other words, to reposition it within the square—go to the Layers panel and click on the Link symbol between the thumbnails to unlink the two components. Then click on the image thumbnail to select the image, go to the canvas and start moving the image around (using the Pointer tool). After that, you'll probably want to relink the image and the mask—again, using the Layers panel—so they can be moved around the canvas as a unit.
As I said, masks are just a special type of group. You can unmask an object at any time using the Modify > Ungroup command, which will restore the original components as separate, independent objects. You can then regroup those objects into a mask by selecting them and choosing Modify > Mask > Group as Mask. This is my preferred way to create a mask. It produces the same results as Paste Inside but doesn't require cutting an object beforehand; instead, you simply stack the objects, select them, and run the command, with the top object—e.g., the square—becoming the mask to the bottom object(s)—e.g., the image.
If you have other, non-masked elements involved—like your gradient block with text—and you want to move them all as a unit, you have several options. One option is include all the elements in a single layer and use the Layers panel to select all the elements in that layer—by clicking on the layer folder/name. Another option would be to simply drag-select all the elements on the canvas before moving them. And a third option would be to group all the elements by selecting them and choosing Modify > Group. This last option makes it easy to move all the elements together on the canvas but makes it more awkward to edit the elements individually (which might require ungrouping using Modify > Ungroup), so it's probably not the best for you.
Finally, since your gradient block with text appears to be contained within the square that you're using to mask the image, you could opt to include that gradient block as part of your mask group as well. To do this, you'd simply stack the image, the gradient block, the text, and then the square on top. Then select them all, and choose Modify > Mask > Group as Mask. The square would become the mask for all three of the selected objects beneath it.

Need help with "paste inside" feature, please!

Hello. I'm a former Freehand user who needs to know how to accomplish the "paste inside" task in Illustrator. I have a graphic which I want to show through only in the areas where the other graphic exists. I don't know how else to explain it. Help!

Hi JBinReno,
You may be referring to a clipping mask. Say I want this image of a city to be contained inside of this sheared rectangle.
Just select both the shape and the image and choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
To edit the image inside of the shape, simply double click on the graphic and you can edit "inside".
Is this the solution you're looking for?
Michael

Working with Chinese characters: How to paste and modify them as sentences; not as individual images?

Working with Chinese characters: How to paste and modify them as sentences; not as individual images?
From 2004, this is so far the most detailed answer I could find: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Illustrator-1027/FONTS-display-problem-Adobe.htm, but is this really still the most up-to date solution?
Is it possible at all to work with Chinese characters, if I don't have the Chinese version of Illustrator? (http://www.proz.com/forum/dtp_desktop_publishing/221125-chinese_in_indesign.html)

Thanks for your reply.
I'm using Version 17.1.0 (64-bit) - basically CS6.
Operating system is Windows 8.1. Installed is the simplied Chinese language package.
I have received the text in a Word document. It contains mixed characters, something like this:
教授资料
学术背景：
博士；曾于波恩大学（Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn）、台湾师范大学、
I have tried to paste it in the two following ways:
1) to create a text box and paste the text. The result is that some of the characters are not showed correctly.
2) Paste it directly without any preparation. This result into a single "image" or group of images. I can cancel modify each character one at a time, or I can dissolve the group, but the result is the same.

Paste inside

Hi,
I'd like to have my flash movie happen within the borders of a rounded rectangle. Is this possible in Flash? Is it easier to do with a combination of fireworks/ dreamweaver/ flash? I can do something like it in Fireworks using the "paste inside" command. Any help would be welcome

Sorry, I'm still having problems. I have lots of little moving concentric circles in different folders. Does this matter? Flash Help says the mask only masks the layer below. Do I have to nest the layer folders?

How to paste a hyperlink

I am still a newbie to my Mac and I can not seem to figure out how to paste a hyperlink where someone else can just click on the link I send them and not have to cut and paste the link.
Thanks

Hi Ali B,
Thanks for your reply, I did mean the link (URL) in Discussions and a Link within a Thread - Which is why I was confused. I also do not read code. I'm not so sure that Herknav meant this - I think he was asking about for mail and etc.
Hi Herknav, If you were asking for your mail or ichat then - Highlight the http:// address on your top tool bar - then choose Edit > Copy - then go to whatever you're typing to and click the cursor (flashing vertical line) to the spot you want the link to appear - then at your top tool bar again choose Edit > Paste and your link should paste to the location you had put your flashing cursor....It will not look like it's active - however once you send it you can check in your send folder and see it's highlighted as a link that can be clicked.
Hi Brian Eater,
I already use the copy-paste for mail and ichat - I was trying to understand George Orville's informed help - and assumed it was for threads and discussions. Thanks for your reply.

No paste inside indicator to use for conToPath

Wondering why I couldnt snap to point a guideline to an
object when the objects appeared to be grouped. No paste inside
indicator so it must be a group. Turns out I had done a paste
inside before bringing the set of objects in, but why no indicator
to differentiate between grouped and paste inside in MX, we always
had the 4 pointed star in the middle before. This is most
confusing. Some programmer simply forgot to keep this most useful
feature. So why not correct that omission ?
I now need to convert to path the contents of the paste
inside, in FH9 I could double click the indicator , do a ConToPath,
deselect then export it as an eps, it has zero effect on this file,
having come from a much more complex file. With no 4 pointed icon
in the middle how can this be done in MX ? I dont wish to release
the paste insides layers from the source file into this files
layers, else 20 layers will become 220 ! I bet the styles list
would also grow with entries I dont want ! The clipping path is not
easily found so apart from the reasons mentioned, doing a cut
contents means trying to find it to deselect it for the paste
inside after the contopath.
I came across this omission when first trying MX upon its
appearance on the market and running away from what I saw, as my
work has lots of paste insides, now after this length of time how
become this useful star thingy is still not back with us ?
Envirographics

envirographics wrote:
> You mention need for Subselect several times to get to
text, is this a
> question of going down through the depths as it were for
each text block, or
> will it do them all with a few sub selects.
In my experience, it should expose all the text in all
clipping paths, but I
don't work a great deal with text in clipping paths, so there
may be
exceptions I haven't encountered. If the text is part of
nested groups or is
attached to paths and then pasted inside a clipping path, a
single Subselect
won't select it in such a way that you can use 'Convert to
Paths'.
This is another difference between FHMX and FH9. In FH9 you
could select all
on a page and 'Convert to Paths'. In FHMX, text within groups
must first be
subselected.
I use F1 as my Subselect shortcut. This makes it easy to
toggle between
Superselect (Tilde key) and Subselect to get to the desired
level.
Judy Arndt

How to paste attributes from one photo to a selection of photos?

When I try to copy attributes (i.e: white balance, etc) from one photo and paste to a group of other photos, the attributes are only pasted to the most selected (first) photo of the group. The result is the same whether I use the menu or keyboard shortcuts for the copy and paste. Does anyone know how to paste the attributes to the entire group in one fell swoop?

Are you selecting the group of images from the grid view or from the filmstrip at the bottom of the library module? I have found that many operations are only applied to the first image in a selection if the selection was made from the filmstrip at the bottom of the library module. If the group of images is selected from the grid view, then the operation applies to all the images selected.
I hope that helps.
Walt
B & B Photography

I have a new IMAC with a Maverick platform (I can update to Yosemite). I did all graphics on a G5 Power PC (very old), in Freehand (very old)... How can I open old Freehand files on this new Mac? Can I still open and work in Freehand on this new Mac?

I have a new IMAC with a Maverick platform (I can update to Yosemite). I did all graphics on a G5 Power PC (very old), in Freehand (very old)...
How can I open old Freehand files on this new Mac?
Can I still open and work in Freehand on this new Mac?

Let me see if I've gotten this right! You want to remove an account from BOTH machines? Do this for your new machine first, then for the other.
Click the Apple logo on the top left of the screen, System Preferences, Users and Groups (under Systems), unlock the lock in the window if its locked (you need to know the password), select the user that you wish to remove, and click the - sign next to the + sign for Login options. A window will pop up with some options. Select Delete this user and securely, and click 'Delete user'.
After this, do an update from the App Store.
Thats all there is to it.
For the other machine repeat the process except for one thing. Before you delete the user in this case YOU, you will have to give Administrator priviledges to your son bu checking the box 'Allow user to administer this computer'.
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CS4 How to Paste Inside like Freehand

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