Editing image created with Illustrator brushes

Can parts of an Illustrator brush be removed or erased where they overlap on an angle. Obviously straight portions are not a problem and can be handled by moving the anchor point of the path. However, I have created a pattern brush with 6 parallel lines and I am designing a typeface for a Typography class. There are areas where the brush lines overlap.

Use the appearance palette, and 3 paths for example to make a B.
With appearance, there are so many possibilities.

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Rotate Image Created with createImage() ?

I've been looking around online for a way to do this, but so far the only things I have found are 50+ lines of code. Surely there is a simple way to rotate an image created with the createImage() function?
Here's some example code with all the tedious stuff already written. Can someone show me a simple way to rotate my image?
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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          try{ mt = new MediaTracker(this);
               base = getCodeBase(); }
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          // Rotate myimg by 5 degrees
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     public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){}
     public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){}
     public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){}
     public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e){}
}Thanks very much for your help!
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// <applet code="RotationApplet" width="400" height="400"></applet>
// use: >appletviewer RotationApplet.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;
public class RotationApplet extends JApplet {
    RotationAppletPanel rotationPanel;
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        Image image = loadImage();
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            mt.waitForID(0);
        } catch(InterruptedException e) {
            System.out.println("loading interrupted");
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        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
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        BufferedImage dest = new BufferedImage(w,h,type);
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Unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Snow Leopard using Lion

Anyone else unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Leopard and Snow Leopard with Lion? I know that they made changes with the release of FileVault 2 on Lion and Snow Leopard cannot use Lion encrypted disks but I thought it was backwards compatible where Lion should still be able to work with Snow Leopard created images (it was in the pre-release versions of Lion).
When attempting to mount an encrypted disk image created with Snow Leopard on Lion the normal password prompt appears but then just reappears every time the password is entered and does not unlock and mount the image. I'm positive the correct password is being entered and it works just fine when done on a machine running Snow Leopard.

Not in cases when the computer successfully boots to one OS but produces three beeps when an attempt is made to boot it to another. If it really was a RAM problem that serious, the computer wouldn't get as far as checking the OS version, and it has no problems booting Lion. In the event of a minor RAM problem, it wouldn't produce three beeps like that at all.
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Can I take an image created in Illustrator and have it be on the Character Map? I need to use it as

I have an image that I need to use as a bullet many times for a specific client. Is there a way to take that image from Illustrator and convert it to something on the Character Map?

If by Character Map, you mean the Windows Character Map application, which lets you view the glyphs in a given font, then no, you can't do that with Illustrator.
In order for your bullet (a new glyph) to appear in the Windows Character Map application, it would have to be a glyph inside a font.
Illustrator does not provide the capability of directly editing font files. (Corel Draw does.)
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In modifying fonts, you would be restricted by the limitations inherent in fonts: your custom bullet or dingbat would need to consist of a single simple or compound path, and could only receive one color, as any other text object.
The far more common approach to this problem is to use inline graphics. All of Illustrator's mainstrream competitors (and even InDesign) allow you to paste a graphic into a textframe, inline with the text, and have it behave as if it were a character in the text. Illustrator has never provided that commonplace feature.
If you use InDesign you can, as a ridiculously cumbersome workaround, create your text object in InDesign, paste the artwork element(s) inline. When done, copy the whole text object and paste into Illustrator. It will be pasted into AI as PDF content, meaning a Clipping Mask containing a bunch of individual pointType objects and the bullets as separate objects.
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I've tried multiple things, but can't get Acrobat Pro to edit text within a PDF file which was created by Illustrator cs2 "Accumulated text within the attempted selection area is rotated other than horizontal or vertical. Touchup cannot create a text selection area.". I've searched google, read help....
Fix was to download NitroPDF. It quickly and easily edited the text. So why won't Adobe do it...

The same thing happens with pdf files that are not zip files even if saved from Acrobat Pro on my computer.

Links to PDFs Created with Illustrator Won't Work

I am using CS3. I create a document in Illustrator, save it as a PDF, and create a link to the PDF either through our website developer or through a newsletter program I am using. If I create the PDF using other programs (such as MSWord or Excel), the link works fine. If the original document is created using Illustrator and then saved as a PDF, the file will open directly as a PDF no problems. However, when I link to the PDF, the PDF downloads about 95% to 99% and then just stops on a blank page. Sometimes I get the message that the download is done; sometimes it just sits there at 95% downloaded and never progresses. Anyone else experience this?

That's weird. Did you try and run the "Optimize" stuff in Acrobat? Perhaps it still has some references and fancies turned on that are unsuitable. Also there may be something up with your Internet Zoen surveillance and Illu simply not be an trusted app, so your PDFs are flagged as risky by the system...
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Wait for Image created with Toolkit.createImage()

I try to create a new image using Toolkit.createImage(byte[]). When I try to proccess this image afterwards with an ImageObserver Container.prepareImage() I get an error returned from Container.checkImage().
It looks like Toolkit.createImage(byte[]) did not finish the image-creation. But how can I wait for it?

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Thanx

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User can't open a PDF created with Illustrator CS4

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Need to get rid of persistent images created with as3 - pls help

I have used the following as3 code, courtesy of Jody Hall at theflashconnection.com . It's a drag and drop that works great. Problem is the drag and drop images persist when I move on to other frames. How do I clear the images when finished so they don't appear in subsequent frames? Thank you in advance.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
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DRAG AND DROP (I JUST DID THE LAST FOUR FOR THIS EXAMPLE)
MOVING ON TO NEXT FRAME, YOU STILL SEE THE RECTANGLES.

Thank you SO muchNed Murphy
I'm a newbie to AS3 and I was trying to figure it out for past 2 weeks that why did swapChildren or setChildIndex or addChild, all of these made my Target Movieclip remain/duplicate/persist on the stage even after the layer containing the Target Movieclip has blank keyframes. I surfed so many forums and tutorials for the answer but turns out it was my lack of knowledge of basic concepts. I remember checking out this specific forum as well past week but due to it being "Not Answered" I skipped it. This should be marked as a "Correct Answer", The Empty MovieClip did the trick!
I needed this solution for a Drag and Drop game, so that the current item that is being dragged is above all other graphic layers. And when all items are dropped on their correct targets, there is gotoAndPlay to Success frame label.
I created a movieclip on the top layer with the same dimensions as the stage and put it at x=0 y=0 position. Instance name: emptymc
And deleted the emptymc from the timeline during the Success frame label.
Here is some code I used,
1. MovieClip.prototype.bringToFront = function():void {
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event.currentTarget.bringToFront();
I didn't know how to put the addChild and refer to the currentTarget in the startDragging function itself, for example
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- This one didn't work inside the startDragging function "emptymc.addChild(this); "
Is there a correct way I could have done it properly?
Thanks,
Dipak.

DrawImage takes long time for images created with Photoshop

Hello,
I created a simple program to resize images using the drawImage method and it works very well for images except images which have either been created or modified with Photoshop 8.
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Temp BufferedImage: 16
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Thanks for your help,
-Rogier

You saved the file in PNG format. The default PNGImagReader in core java has a habit of occasionally returning TYPE_CUSTOM buffered images. Photoshop 8 probably saves the png file in such a way that TYPE_CUSTOM pops up more.
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So a quick fix would be to load the file with the Toolkit instead, and then scale that image.
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reader.dispose();
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I am trying out the Pages 09/Endnote feature. I find that I cannot edit the Bib that was created by Endnote as I was entering the citations. When I click on the Bib the whole thing is highlighted. A double click results in bringing up the manage citations window in Endnote. The Bib format that my school uses is difficult to reproduce solely within Endnote, so if this is going to work I need to be able to do a manual edit at the end. Any suggestions, or is this not happening for others?

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Hi All,
I have a custom image which I created in VMWare with MTD 2013. The MDT server is local, I am the only one using it and it is not on the network or available in other sites. I was asked to provide an Acronis or Northon Ghost cloned image so that other admins
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Hi,
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Hope this helps,
Regards,
Martin
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> and there is js language
> instructing to "write menu to screen" if that helps.
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> attached.
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