How do I apply a brush or variable width profile to various length strokes without them scrunching?

I am trying to achieve a hand drawn line effect with an illustration I am doing. I have built my art with the pen tool and have tried to apply both a custom variable width profile and a brush that I found online. They both look fine on the longer path segments, but they scrunch up on the shorter paths. Is there a way I can apply the brush or profile to all the paths and have the brush apply itself uniformly along the path for its length and then just stop rather than trying to fit the whole profile on the path no matter what length it is? I am using Illustrator cs6 on a mac with mavericks.
Thanks for your help!

Apply a default stroke. Delete the wdith profile and the brush
Apply the effect "outline stroke"
Apply the effect "Roughen" with small values.
In the appearance panel "Roughen" needs to be below "Outline stroke"

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Variable Width profile for the brush tool keeps resetting

This problem is baffling me. I'm fairly new to Illustrator so I would appreciate some help. I’m using Adobe Illustrator CS6 with a mouse rather than a pressure graphics tablet.
When I create a stroke using the Paint brush tool I would like the stroke to contain a variable width profile. For example narrower at the beginning and end of the stroke but thicker in the middle. Now I can do this by selecting the line after I have made the stroke and choosing the Basic Brush Definition from the drop down list. But if i try to draw a new line the settings are reset again. I cannot create a variable stroke while creating the stroke. The brush definition keeps resetting to 5 pt Round and stroke width 1 pt. It would be much quicker if the stroke remained as a varying width profile as I created the strokes.
I noticed the same problem with the blob brush tool except it's even worse. With the blob brush tool the stroke weight always resets regardless of whether or not I try to set a Variable width profile.
I tried deselecting "New Art has Basic Appearance" mentioned on another forum but that didn't work.
I know its possible because I’ve seen it done on this youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5wW_65iAiU
Notice the variable width profile is maintained as the artists draws. It doesn’t keep resetting.
Thanks

Just set the Colorization method of the new Brush to Tints or Tints and Shades from the dropdown in the lower right corner of the New Brush diaglo.

Variable width profile

Hello, I have a question about Illustrator. I'd like to have the 'variable width profile' in a separate window. I was wondering if this is possible? Thanks in advance

It's in the stroke panel.
But apart from that: no, not possible.

Custom brush with variable width

I am a beginner at Illustrator, so I'm not sure if this is possible. Is there any way to have a brush "repeat" itself over the width of a line, depending on the stroke weight, instead of just getting thicker?
As a simple example, imagine a custom brush that will behave as follows:
If applied to a line of, say, stroke weight = 4pt, this brush would make the line look like two parallel lines. Then, if the weight of the line was increased to 8pt, it would look like the 4 parallel lines. The default behavior seems to be that the original TWO parallel lines just get thicker, as the stroke weight is increased. I am looking for a way to make the pattern repeat not ALONG the line, but parallel to the line as its thickness is increased.
Sorry if that wasn't well described.

Not as you describe. What you would have to do is use the appearance and keep adding new strokes with an offset effect as welll but if it is an open path the new strokes offset wrap around the ends as if the orignal stroke was contained within a closed path.
the best way for open paths are a brush for each stroke width yoou need and save it as a library of such brushes.
Also visit the Illustrator Feature request form and feature request and make the request.
I think you have something good to offer.

How can I change the pixel height and width of a photo in iPhoto without changing the dpi

I want to change the dimensions of a photo. Current dimensions are 480 pixels on each side. I want to make a copy that is 100 pixels on each side, but I want the dpi to stay the same. In iPhoto I tried exporting the copy using the new dimensions, but the result was a blurred image. Is there another way to do this?

to change the pixels crop to 100x100 and export with maximum dimension of 100 - see the user tip on exporting foo details on Export options - Exporting From iPhoto
As to DPI - digital photos have no DPI since DPI is Dots Per Inch and digital photos have no inches hence no DPI - when you print a photo then DPI is a mathematical calculation - dots divided by inches - it is not a setting
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LN

I have a variable width circle, trying to figure out how to change start / finish thickness variance

Hi all,
Just wondering how I do this and still be able to edit the start point / end point thickness?
In this screen shot I am trying to get the start point (the thinnest point) a little thicker.
Can I edit these variable width profiles or? Any other / better ways to do it?
Any help would be great

You need to use the width tool:
The profiles are all just starting points. Depending on how precise you need to be, you might need to cut the circle at that point so you can get at the thinner end of the line. If you try while it's a circle, you can get pretty close, but the thicker end is over the thinner end.
If you need to cut it, (scissor tool, "c") use the keyboard to move the thicker point out of the way, adjust the thickness with the width tool, and then move the point back. Marquee select them both with the direct select tool (Click and drag with the white arrow, "a") and "join" (command-J) them back together to make it a circle again.

How can i apply this java program for a jsp page?

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How Do You Apply Process Effects To Multiple Clips In A Multi-Track?

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Hello folks,
I am looking for best practices advice when (1) creating
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I already know how to skin a component part of the Flex
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my component skinned using CSS to link the component with the
reference to my custom class.
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selector.
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"jbucaran" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello folks,
>
> I am looking for best practices advice when (1) creating
custom components
> and
> (2) styling and skinning.
>
> I already know how to skin a component part of the Flex
framework. I can
> make
> a class extending ProgrammaticSkin and have my component
skinned using CSS
> to
> link the component with the reference to my custom
class.
>
> However what about those cases when you are completely
creating a
> component
> from scratch?
>
> Imagine a "Freehand Drawing Canvas" component that
allows the user to draw
> on
> it and has some buttons to set color styles, line
styles, etc., or imagine
> a
> "Screen Flow Gallery" component that displays visual
objects in a fashion
> similar to Cover Flow in the Mac.
>
> In many components I am aware you may reuse other
components part of the
> Flex
> framework but I am trying to picture an scenario where
you would need to
> draw
> everything yourself because there just isn't something
to base it upon so
> you
> will end up drawing it from scratch.
This may help with that
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=skinstyle_3.html
> To learn how instead of building one of those components
I mentioned
> previously I decided to start with something simple that
would illustrate
> this
> like a LiteButton component that will behave just like
the Flex
> mx.controls.Button but will extend UIComponent and be
completely custom
> drawn.
>
> The component will have a default look and will also be
style-able and
> skin-able. I will provide styles for users of the
component to modify and
> regarding skinning anyone can create a custom
ProgrammaticSkin adding its
> own
> drawing logic and link it to the component via CSS with
the ClassReference
> applied to the skin selector.
>
> So far so good and it's clear what I want to achieve.
Actually after
> playing
> with the weekend and today I know how to do most of the
stuff but I have
> one
> single problem. So here is my question, where should I
provide my custom
> drawing logic? If I do it in the updateDisplayList
inside the class
> extending
> UIComponent it works, however I thought that it would be
a better practice
> to
> do it using programmatic skins, that way I could provide
different skin
> themes
> for my component set.
These aren't mutually exclusive. When you provide a skin with
a
TypeSelector, you have to add it to the display list
somewhere, and this is
typically done in updateDisplayList or addChildren. I prefer
to do it in
updateDisplayList, because you can then change it if the
style changes.
> The problem is that I can't make the programmatic work
in this scenario. I
> tried instantiating the custom programmatic skin during
the
> updateDisplayList
> of the LiteButton component and adding it to my display
object via
> addChild but
> that didn't do anything.
Exactly what did you do?
> I also tried creating a "default.css" stylesheet and
> tried to use ClassReference as I would normally do to
skin an already
> existing
> component (or composite component as well) but that
didn't do anything
> either.
I've never had any problem using an approach similar to
this...but I will
say that I couldn't see any advantage in creating a
default.css style sheet,
since it's not really default in the way that the one that
comes with Flex
is. It's much more obvious to anyone using your component
what's going on
there if you create a style sheet where they're likely to
spot it.
> So how do I apply programmatic skins with the default
look for custom
> drawn
> components?
It seems like your approach is fine, but maybe you've made a
mistake in your
implementation.
> I could do it inside the updateDisplayList of the
LiteButton class
> extending
> UIComponent but again I would like to provide different
theme sets for my
> components so it makes sense using programmatic skins.
You might want to consider also adding an instance of
HaloBorder to your
component. That brings a lot of functionality with it.
HTH;
Amy

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I'd like to know how to transport the BW query's variable to BO 's webi . today ,I created a sap customer varible in my bw system to get the max calmonth in the active table.The varible in the BW side run's well ,but I use this query to build a new univers ,and created a new webi report base on this univers ,but the question is the webi report can't get the varible's value I wann to know how to transport the bw varible value to BO webi report
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Steve,
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