Exporting Vector Shapes

How do I export my vector shapes into Illustrator? Dragging and dropping does not work because it does not preserve their location. When I tried saving the paths it did not work either, only gave me a blank document. Please help! Thank you!!

Are you sure saving the paths gave you a blank Illustrator document? If they're paths from Photoshop, they're typically unstroked, right? So maybe check the saved paths in Illustrator's Outline view? Or just select all and assign a stroke?

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Exporting Vector shapes to Illustrator?

I know I can get illustrator vector shapes into motion, but what about getting them out?
I've some nice shapes created I want to get out for print piece and I don't want to have to recreate them.

As far as I can tell, it can't be done. Perhaps you can export a still with Alpha, high resolution into Photoshop and then convert the selection to a path... It probably won't be quite as smooth or crisp, but If you can get it enough high res then it would probably work.
Out of curiosity, I attempted to print the Motion file (after creating a vector shape)... but instead of printing, I hit save as PDF (to see if it would transfer the vector data)...
But it didn't work. I tried opening in Illustrator and just got an empty box.

Exporting vector shapes in Photoshop

Hi, i hope im able to explain my situation properly.
The thing is, i made several vector shapes in Illustrator, of course forgot to save the .ai and then my mac went out of power and lost the document.
BUT, before the mac went out of power i imported the shapes into Photoshop, and now their laying there as vector shape layers. Is there any way for me to export the vector shape layers back into illustrator, and still maintain vector editability?
I would be ever so grateful for any help!

You can select the Paths and copy/paste them or ducplicate the Vector Masks in the Paths Panel and use Edit > Export > Paths to Illustrator.
Or simply open the psd in Illustrator and check Convert Layers to Objects.

Vector shapes suddenly looks jagged when exported from InDesign to pdf

I've read several discussions on pdf export topics but none of them seem to solve this issue. I have an indesign document with multiple pages, its both vector shapes, text and pixel graphics. I worked on this for weeks and I exported this document to pdf numerous times and it all looked good every time I did it. All of a sudden I started to get a very bad looking export, just out of the blue the shapes, logos etc got this jagged look and it looks aweful - see my enclosed examples.
I have done nothing to my pdf export setup, InDesign setup or any screen preferances. It's just a mystery to me. It seems to be hurting all my sirculare shapes and not my text in general! Every pixel image / photography exports perfect to pdf. My page display is set to smooth text rendering in my pdf preferences. What's up? What puzzles me is this happened so sudden after numerous fine exports. I'm using InDesign CS6.
This is the O in a logo that's been placed on a page. The right one is what I get when I export to pdf now, the left one is what I used to get

John, your are very wrong about post #2. I personally had a rendering problem that was all solved by setting the opacity to 99.9% - it was exported horribly but fixed by this operation. You can read other user stories that confirms this too. But this is not the same issue so let's leave it at that. I just wanted to mention it in terms of having jagged exports.
There's been no updates thats been changing the Acrobat settings. Acrobat has a default setting in terms of page display that I haven't changed ever as a matter of fact. I shared that info in case someone asked. I'm not connected to any printer, the file is for screen view and third partie receivers can print if they need to (I'm not connected to any printer at work, there's a no print policy). Watching the corporate identity material look terrible on the screen is hardly something a marketing manager likes to do and I don't wanna be the designer responsible for that. So all I want is to solve this mystery and get things back to how it was just two days ago. As described nothing is changed in terms of technical things AND the same terrible results occur when opening a new indd file with a new vector file and exporting that. So the error is not connected to a spesific document or file.
I remember having export rendering problems of all kinds in CS3, CS4 and CS5, it was all sort of quirky operations I had to do to solve them. Once I actually sat on the phone talking to a technical advisor at Adobe in Ireland while he was trying to explain that this was one of those weak spots of InDesign vs Acrobat. I was emailed a script, if that's not a bugfix I don't know what is. He tried to explain how to embedd the file into the installation setup but the end of the story was a full CS4 MA Collection refund. I'm trying to avoid placing foreign calls this time around and nothing has helped so far. I've been reading endless forum threads different places that describes the problem I have but they never end up with a solution for InDesign CS6 and export routines. It's just a series of errors and questions. I've turned the stone a million times, but all I see is...stone

How do I automate global vector shape, mask & path transfers to Illustrator?

Using: WIN7, Adobe CS5, PS, AI (but others may appreciate answers for CS6, etc.)
When I need to move a project from Photoshop to Illustrator, I need an automated way to prep shape and vector mask items for export--preferably preserving the structure and layout that already exists as layer names and order, character and paragraph settings, and of course global registration. My scripting is limited to recording actions, so I need to find an existing script or get coached on this. Any recommendations?
I have googled and waded through numerous forum posts trying to research this on my own, so I know about the ability to export my path collection, but that's usually inapplicable in reality. It only deals with vectors from the Paths pallette. In Photoshop, I use the Paths pallet to store master and WIP paths, but all the working paths are either shapes or vector masks--or active type layers. Often enough that it's become an issue, I'll need to move the whole project to Illustrator. Obviously, the process has issues; I'm not expecting the rastor layers or Photoshop styles to carry over, but I see no reason why I can't capture text, shape and vector mask elements.
They all have a vector component, but simply opening a PSD in Illustrator flattens (badly) the layers. I select the "Convert Layers as Objects" but have yet to see it extract editable text. I'm not sure if it even attempts to do anything with vector shapes or masks. I've got a process for moving a project one element at a time, using registration marks--but this requires turning text into shapes most of the time, especially if I am trying to preserve kerning and leading crucial to the layout. Maybe I just have not found the right info, and there is a way to transfer editable text without losing character and paragraph settings. I'd love to hear about it.
For now, I'd be happy to stop wasting time doing a ton of conversions and renaming by hand, just so I can preserve the work I've already invested.
One suggestion, posted under a multiple path export question, was to use scripting... but no one explored or explained how to go about it. I'm not asking for the impossible, however. I simply need help working out my own solution: if there is no application method for transferring the elements, try to script a method to prep those elements for export. Before I even attempt to reinvent someone's wheel, I am putting the question out there:
Does anyone know of a solution that already exists?
I appreciate hearing your advice and thank you for giving this some attention!
edit: I kept at it and managed to open my current project PSD in AI with text and shape/mask vectors successfully--not as cleanly as I'd hoped but the relative positioning of things was acceptable. I am still interested in hearing people's suggestions on better ways to transfer work from one tool to the other, though. I know this is going to come up for me again and again...
Thanks!

Hi,
It sounds like you have gotten this working for your project, but you might look at this thread for a few different solutions. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1045757

InDesign CS5 PDF - Failure to Export Vector Elements

Recently, we have had two separate incidents where the creation of an InDesign CS5 PDF failed to export certain vector art elements. The elements are not shared between jobs and the files were physically created in different locations (entirely different servers) within our organization. The elements are pdf and eps and appropriately linked. On the PDF, we're not even getting a low-res version of the artwork. When looking at the PDF in NEO, the containing box of the graphic is not present. One the most frustrating aspects of this is we haven't been able to repeat error in order to fix the error. The next time (or 50 times) the document is exported, the vector art is fine.
Has anyone else had a similar issue?

@rickphot
I've had this same problem just today. I have a 64 page INDD that when exported to PDF (print) from CS5 (with no elements on my page set to "non printing elements"), only some of my vector shapes get exported. They are all merely 0.25pt Black Lines used to direct a reader from a comment to a matching illustration, and some pages exported them just fine, and some other pages will not work. I've tried moving them to a new layer, cutting and pasting in place, copying and pasting in place, changing the transparency modes, etc...nothing works...EXCEPT to just redraw the lines.
@Bob Levine
Do you work for Adobe? Can you offer any advice to this problem yet?
Thanks all. Glad I'm not the ONLY one going crazy with a bizzare problem like this one.

Saving PDF from AI causes TIF images to be 'intersected' by vector shape behind it

Hi,
I am encountering this issue frequently and would appreciate any insight...
When I have a design made up of both embedded TIF Images and vector shapes which overlap, the shape of the vector beneath 'cuts' or intersects the image laid on top and produces a white area there.
It is seen in the full color PDF's I send to the printers at the local newspaper. The PDF is saved at 180dpi. The 'save illustrator editing capabilities' makes no difference whether it's checked on or not. It does not occur in 300 dpi PDF's Saved from AI.
The problem is the printers save all artwork to 180dpi PDF's no matter what format I send.
Can this be avoided by doing something on my side? or has anyone else had this before?
Thanks,
TJ

andrejfavia2 wrote:
And since no one has replied back to me, I'm guessing that the average user doesn't even know how to do something basic like export a vector PDF from graphics with text,
it seems so.. as you don´t know how to do it.
sorry i can´t help im a photo guy and i think i have never touched PDF in photoshop.
andrejfavia2 wrote:
What are you people doing?? This is such a tortorous user interface!!
yep especially that copy and paste is not working via mouse annoys me. i only get the "insert, image link" stuff on my right mouse button.... and i don´t need that as often as copy & paste.
the quote function is not very good either, compared with other forum software.

Exporting vector based images

What is the best way of exporting vector based images from Flash so I can open it in Illustrator?
I frequently design basic vector graphics in Flash as I find manipulating shapes much easier and intuitive. Now with the upgrade I am finding this impossible to save out and it has really slowed down my progress.
Is there anyway whatsoever in achieving this as Flash is, after all a brilliant vector based programme?
Best regards,
Sam

Hi Sam-Rios,
SVG export is a Work in Progress for exporting out vector content from Flash CC and would be usable in Illustrator as well. This would be available with the next major update to be released shortly.
For now, you may try out a third party SVG exporter for Flash Pro:
https://github.com/davebelais/Extensible/blob/master/Javascript/Extens ible/SVG.jsfl
Hope this helps!
-Nipun

Illustrator vector shapes become jagged in flash

does anyone know why when importing vector shapes from
illustrator into flash the shapes become very jagged when the swf
file is published?
thanks

Hi R-Designer,
The jagged edges are caused by the import process in Flash.
When it
encounters complex fills or lines it can't directly handle,
it converts them
to bitmaps. Illustrator will also sometimes do this when
exporting for
Flash. Unfortunately, the only way to deal with this is to
reduce the
complexity of your image (especially fills or fancy lines) or
exporting the
whole thing as a high-res bitmap.
Regards,
Patrick Bay
BAY NEW MEDIA
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> I'm having the same problem. I've taken an AI and tried
to import as an
> AI, PDF
> and 'save for web' gif and the outer curve is jagged.
The inner curves
> look
> great. I've noticed none of the questions regarding this
type of problem
> have
> been answered... Any ideas?
>

Tweening dynamic vector shapes

So I am wanting to blend/morph/tween a sequence that gives a
rectangle the appearance that it is "snapping" in place by bowing
and pinching the shape. Hopefully this image helps explain it.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/expansiondesign/Picture%201.png
Just imagine that the blend is happening in the one spot;
that the 4 shapes are sitting on top of each other.
Ignore the colour.
The only way I know how to do this is with frame by frame
animation and exporting/importing each image step from illustrator.
But I've done that before and it is too tedious.
I thought maybe there was someway to edit the points of a
vector shape at different keyframes?
Thanks

vertexList is the property you that you can control for a
vector member.
A quick demo at:
http://www.directoratnight.com/2006/08/22/vertexlists-go-morphing/
and here is a quick behavior that will tweak a rectangle
property pSprite
property pMem
property pW, pH, pD, pTheta
property pCounter
on beginSprite me
pSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
pMem = pSprite.member
pW = 200.
pH = 100.
pD = 20.
pCounter = 0
end
on exitFrame me
pTheta = pCounter * pi() / 180.
me.setToShape()
pCounter = pCounter + 5
if pCounter > 180 then
pCounter = -180
end if
end
on setToShape me
p1 = point(-pW, -pH)/2
h11 = pD * point(cos(pTheta), -sin(pTheta))
h12 = pD * point(-cos(pTheta), sin(pTheta))
p2 = point(pW, -pH)/2
h21 = pD * point(cos(pTheta), sin(pTheta))
h22 = pD * point(-cos(pTheta), -sin(pTheta))
p3 = point(pW, pH)/2
h31 = pD * point(-cos(pTheta), sin(pTheta))
h32 = pD * point(cos(pTheta), -sin(pTheta))
p4 = point(-pW, pH)/2
h41 = pD * point(-cos(pTheta), -sin(pTheta))
h42 = pD * point(cos(pTheta), sin(pTheta))
aL1 = [#vertex:p1, #handle1:h11, #handle2:h12]
aL2 = [#vertex:p2, #handle1:h21, #handle2:h22]
aL3 = [#vertex:p3, #handle1:h31, #handle2:h32]
aL4 = [#vertex:p4, #handle1:h41, #handle2:h42]
myVertexList = [ aL1, aL2, aL3, aL4]
pMem.vertexList = myVertexList
end

Line to Illustrator : no vector shape

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Can you blur vector shapes in Photoshop without rasterizing?

Is there a way to blur vector shapes in Photoshop, similar to the way Illustrator does, without having to rasterizing the layer? I am working with a very large file that has been scaled from 300dpi to 50 in order to manage it while working. I will sclae back to 300 dpi before sending to printer. Rasterized images will soften as you know which i guess is ok when it comes to a blurred shape, now that i think about it. But for future reference?
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How do I change the units for the vector shape stroke in the option bar?

I work with vector shapes very often in Photoshop. In CS6, they have added the stroke and fill tools in the option bar.
If I open a file with vector shapes that was created in CS5, the stroke defaults to 3pt. I would prefer it to default to pixels instead of points. I have found that if I change the settings prior to creating a new shape, it retains those attributes for all future shapes. However, if I am working on an older file, and would like to use this tool, it is frustrating to have to change this unit every time.
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Vector shapes printed jagged - or is it me?

http://prosol1.com/mw_images/pen_tool_lines.pdf
i created the above in ill CS4 [i created the above PDF for you to see]. i printed it direct from the ill file and the curves are not what i thought they would be. but then again, maybe it's because of the printer we use?
we use an HP 2550 color laser printer. maybe this printer can't handle the pen tool vector shapes? am i not making the shapes the proper way to insure they are smooth when printed? or is it the printer?
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is there

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MouseClick trough a vector shape not working when there is a bitmap below it?

Hello, I got something strange going on.
I have one class called Person that extends a Sprite.
First i have a bitmap that i add to the sprite class:
This bitmap is a transparent PNG.
addChild(_imageBitmap);
then i did some drawing in Flash that has the shape of this person and extended this to
the SimpleButton. This way, only the edge or the inner shape is clickable.
then i add this shape to this Person class too.
addChild(_personShape);
This way, the shape is on top of the bitmap.
Now i have an clickable item behind this person. This item is visible because it is in the
transparent area of the bitmap and shape.
This clickable item does not respond on the mouse click! Only when i disabel the imageBitmap
(I tried uncomment the line addChild(_imageBitmap) and then it works just fine!
This means that the bitmap is causing the problem to get a click trough.
Is there a propertie for a bitmap like MouseChildren = false? or something else to make use
of a click trough within a shape?
Regards,
Chris.

Hello Ned,
Thanks for the advise, but i already tried the mouseChildren properties.
The bitmap has no property mouseChildren, so i created a new Container (sprite) and added
this bitmap to it and set the mouseChildren property to it. and the MouseEnabled too, but nothing happend differently.
The strange thing of this, is the fact that the rollOver and the RollOut item behind the bitmap image works just fine.
It has probably something to do with the fact that the clickable item is an displayObject3D (Papervision)
But what i also don't understand is when i don't use this bitmap, and only the vector shape it works just fine.
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And i replaced this with the image shape and now it works.
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Chris.

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