Scaling Down images in Illustrator

I scaled down original images into a file in an illustrator file but the pictures are still the original HUGE picture size. When I scale it down or save the file as a pdf is there anyway to get the size down proportional to the scaled down version? This is going to press so I can't reduce the quality.

Look at the preferences for pdf export, I believe it is under the edit menu. You can set the image reduction there. If necessary, create a new preset with the options you prefer, but one of the pdf-x options should work. (I never tired the pdf-x presets, so I am assuming it would be right).

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Is there a scaled down version of Illustrator?

Is there a scaled down version of Illustrator similar to Elements for Photoshop? I'd like to be able to get a scaled down version of the software because I'm not a serious designer, so I wouldn't use most of the more complex functions.

No. You can always use the free Inkscape or tools from other vendors.
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It's about attaching scaled down image

hi...
i'm attaching an image that has been scaled down from 3040 x 2016 to 1200 x 796 (using photoshop) to a jpanel via drawImage...
it works fine, but then a message occur on the console when the program terminated :
'Corrupt JPEG data: 3304 extraneous bytes before marker 0xed'
i've tested attaching the real image (3040 x 2016)... there's no problem, but it's way too big,
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Does the image open properly in photoshop? What type of image is it?

Scaled down images look poor

when placing .png files into CS5, they look fine, though as I scale them smaller, once I reach a certain size, they begin to look pixelated and the edges are jagged. Why is this? Why would they look worse at smaller sizes and how can I scale them down without them doing this?
Thanks.

I agree with the last poster, .png is a newer format.
You problem may be with bitmapped graphics previews in Illustrator. The best accuracy of a bitmapped graphic preview is in photoshop at 100% (1 pixel file to 1 pixel monitor). As you zoom in on a scaled down illustrator the preview will get better, as Illustrator uses the bitmapped preview part of the file to display the image, but the interpolation may make thin lines look bolder or thinner when not in a 1 to 1 pixel preview.
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Scaling down images to thumbnails with bilinear/bicubic filtering in Flex?

Hi!
I develop a Flex based AIR Application, which needs to create
thumbnails of big images. My Thumbnailer class does what I want to,
but the results look not so well. The problem is, that even with
"smoothing" turned on, when drawing the bitmap smoothing only
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thumbnails to image files and use these. So scaling does not to be
real time.
Is there a way to create better thumbnail images in
Flex?

I don't think it should be necessary to do things this way.
I tried following the approach outlined here:
http://blog.739saintlouis.com/2007/02/05/scaling-an-image-with-smoothing/
in both an AIR app and a normal web app, and it looked
noticeably different (worse) in AIR. Have you done the same
experiment?
Anyway, someone will look into it. (It's still possible you
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Mike Schiff
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Having problems scaling down image

Hi there, I was hoping somebody here may be able to answer a query I have.
I'm currently creating the following icon in Illustrator:
The Image was created within illustrator using the shape and pathfinder tools, the problem I'm having is that when I come to scaling it down, this happens:
The strange thing is that when I scale the icon upwards it does it perfectly as it should, but the problems are coming from scaling it down.
I think it may have something to do with the size of the image already, it's quite small, approximately 50px accross. I'm looking to get it down to about 25-30 px accross, but when i take it down to about 40px the distortion occurs and gets worse as I make it smaller.. I thought it may have something to do with the handles on the anchor points overlapping? But I'm not so sure as I've never had an issue like this before, although I've never worked at this small scale before either.
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Lionel.

In your transform palette turn OFF align to pixel grid, prior to scaling. Adobe since CS5 has made that to be on by default when you create an RGB document.

Pixelated images when scaled down issue.

I have scaled down some JPG's in flash and they look fine but
when I publish to a SWF they look pixelated. I've read other
threads and done what is suggested i.e. Smoothing on or off, JPG's
instead of PNG's and quality at 100% with no success. I know that
Flash isn't a resolution based application and bitmaps are but the
images look fine in the Flash IDE.
Can anybody help me further with this. Thanks in advance for
any help.
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Hi andy 3r x1...I'm not sure I understand what you mean,
sorry. I have JPG's inside flash and they look fine but when I
publish and view them through the player they don't. The JPG's are
scaled in the flash movie but are seen 1:1 later on in the movie.
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Flash player 7. If I publish for 8 and above the JPG's look fine.
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Stop imported images from being scaled down

This is a quote from the Adobe Premiere Elements 7 web page Guidelines For Adding Files
Guidelines for adding still image files
By default, Adobe Premiere Elements scales still images to fit the project frame size. You can override this behavior and instead add your files at the size at which they were created.
My question is how do you override the down scaling my image of 4000x3000 is getting scaled to 1280x??? so when I zoom it is pixelated.
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Also, how do you intend to export this 4000 x 3000 pixel still? If you go Share/Personal Computer/Windows Media, even with the choice preset = 1440 x 1080 HD anamorphic, the max that you can type in for frame size = 2000 x 2000 pixels.
In the OP's case, the Export will be to the chosen Frame Size. Let's just say that it's 1440 x 1080. That is all that will show. However, PrE will be displaying that Frame Size from the larger still, and as it moves about, within that Frame Size, the image will change to reflect the current view of that still image. It's like having a 1440 x 1080 window. Behind that "window," the scene is moved about, as is needed. The view will always be through that window, but with something like the Effect>Motion>Position, will be dynamically altered, frame by frame. Without Scale to Fit, only the 1440 x 1080 "view" will be seen, and never the 4000 x X full view. It's about the same as a PiP, that is created by Effect>Crop. The full image of the Video Clip on Track 2 is never seen, as we have created a "window," reflected by the Crop. That is all that the NLE "sees," and Exports.
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Green screen filter and scaling down distorts image?

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What can be the cause of that?
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When you slow down footage you are creating frames where there were none before. I'd suggest you do this in a two step process:
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Choppy Blocky Images in Illustrator - HELP

When I open a high resolution image in Ai they look somewhat distorted and choppy. They are jpeg files that I am placing in order to envelope distort onto a mesh. For some reason any bitmap image I open with Ai looks like this. However, when I open the same image with Acrobat Pro or Ps the image looks perfect. Images are RGB in both apps.
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Illustrator does not have as accurate a preview for bitmapped graphics. Usually the image jsut looks softer. Is the image scaled a large amount?
I suggest you print this, or do a save for web and view at 100% in photoshop.
I see your images are screenshot, cold you post the oriignal image, and tell us if the image looks bad prior to embedding & envelope distorting. You can also envelope distort or warp in photoshop, which I would recomend, unless you absolutley need to use make with top object.

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Blurry/Scaled Down Artwork Column and Cover Flow are in 9.2

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Hey everyone,
I have a clip in my time line which I resize (720 x 480) scale down to 32% from 100% to the corner.
Adjusted all the Pixel Aspect ratios which are set to NTSC CCIR 601 (lower) & TIFF images (square). Tryed also RT which is dynamic.
My lower 32% scaled down video is a bit distored blurry with any graphic file or motion file. Tried adjusting the layers,aspect settings, codec. If I remove the graphic..it clears up to normal. The full 100% scaled is fine.
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Render it, then view on a proper external ntsc/pal video monitor.
x

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Are you monitoring this on an external NTSC monitor or TV? You cannot judge the quality of your images as viewed on the computer screen.
#2 Playback is blurry
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
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2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
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Sounds confusing I know but basically I want to place some images on the stage and I want every image, whether big or small, portrait or landscape, to be scaled to about a quarter of the stage size.
I have tried coding this myself and even tried many suggestions found on the web, but they all seem to do the same thing. The code either sizes every image to be equal in width and varying height, or scale every image to be equal in height with varying width.
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I loaded an array with a Loader and then used a random a variable to pick from the array using a variable that has the length of the array in it: here is the code, but the cut and paste does not wok that well.
import com.greensock.TweenLite;
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XMLURLLoader.load(new URLRequest("link to picasa photo rss feed"));
XMLURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
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//var imagesWidth:Array = new Array();
//var imagesHeight:Array = new Array();
var imagesLength:uint;
var imagesLoadedCount:int=0;//A counter, counts the images loaded
var formatFont:Myriad = new Myriad();//This is the embedded font
var textformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();//A TextFormat Object
textformat.color=0xFFFFFF;
textformat.font=formatFont.fontName;
textformat.size=80;//Use the same size you used when embedding the font from the Library
var
function processXML(event:Event):void {
var XMLdata:XML=new XML(XMLURLLoader.data);
imagesLength=XMLdata.channel.item.length();
for (var i:uint=0; i < imagesLength; i++) {
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.load(new URLRequest(String(XMLdata.channel.item[i].enclosure.@url)));
imagesArray.push(loader);
var imageDate:String=XMLdata.channel.item[i].pubDate.substr(6,10);
imagesDateUploaded.push(imageDate);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imagesLoaded);//A listener to the function that will be executed when an image is loaded
function imagesLoaded(event:Event):void {
imagesLoadedCount++;//Adds one to the imagesLoaded variable
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function prepareImages():void {
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var i:uint = Math.floor(Math.random()*imagesLength);
trace(i);
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();//A container that will store the image, frame, TextField, TextField background and shadow
var frame:Sprite = new Sprite();//The Frame Sprite
var infoArea:Sprite = new Sprite();//The TextField background
var infoField:TextField = new TextField();//The TextField
//build the frames
frame.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF);
frame.graphics.drawRect(-20, -20, imagesArray[i].width + 40, imagesArray[i].height + 40);
frame.graphics.endFill();
//creates a black rectangle in the bottom part of the image, where the TextField will be.
infoArea.graphics.beginFill(0x111111, 0.5);//.5 is alpha
infoArea.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, imagesArray[i].width, 100);//100 = height
infoArea.graphics.endFill();
infoArea.y=imagesArray[i].height-100;
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infoField.defaultTextFormat=textformat;
infoField.embedFonts=true;//You have to add this to use the embedded font
infoField.antiAliasType=AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;//This property will display the text more clearly
infoField.width=imagesArray[i].width-5;
infoField.height=100;
infoField.text=imagesDateUploaded[i];//The content, obtained from the XML and stored in the Array
//The images will have a random position based on the center of the Stage area. We use Math for that.
//add a shadow filter
//Distance, angle, color, alpha, blur, strength, quality
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var filterArray:Array=[shadowFilter];
container.filters=filterArray;//Apply the filter
//adding children to container
infoArea.addChild(infoField);//Adds the TextField to the TextField Background
container.addChild(frame);//Adds the Frame to the Container
var bd:BitmapData= new BitmapData(imagesArray[i].width, imagesArray[i].height);
var bmp:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bd);
bd.draw(imagesArray[i]);
container.addChild(bmp);
// using the loader from the array directly was causing problems like only showing once.
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infoArea.visible=true;//We set the image information to invisible by default
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} else {// vertical asset
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container.x = Math.floor(Math.random()*(1+stage.stageWidth - container.width-20))+20;
container.y = Math.floor(Math.random()*(1+stage.stageHeight - container.height-20))+20;
//the plus and minus 20 keeps the image in the stage boundary. something wrong with the container width calculations
this.addChild(container);//Lastly, we add the Container to the Stage
container.alpha = 0;
TweenLite.to(container,1,{alpha:1});
trace("Just added child");
var timer:Timer = new Timer(5000,1);
timer.addEventListener (TimerEvent.TIMER, initTimer);
timer.start();
function initTimer(event:TimerEvent):void{
trace("Timer started");
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timer.reset()

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