Spirals in CS4?

When I select the Spiral tool in CS4, how do I get the dialog box to show so that I can change the attributes for creating a spiral? Is there a new way of controlling spirals?
If I double-click on the Line Segment, Arc, or either of the Grid tools I get their dialog boxes, but nothing happens when double-clicking the Spiral Tool.
(Illustrator CS4 14.0.0, OS X 10.5.5, 2 x 2.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon, 10GB RAM)

If you want a little more control, use the Star tool to drag out a shape with relatively small interior base and long rays - make the number of rays equal to the number of arms you want in your spiral (use up-down arrow keys).
With the object selected:
1. Go to Effect - Warp - Twist. Turn on Preview and play with the controls. It doesn't allow a lot of radical settings, but you can apply it multiple times.
2. Go to Effects - Distort and Transform - Twist. Turn on preview and hold down arrow-up or -down. Hold down Shift and arrow-up or -down.

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Mmh, differences between versions aside, you are pretty much getting what you are asking. Any compressed format will have a hard time with perependicular lines and lots of high fequency detail (text, the coil spirals). There's really no way to avoid that otehr than to draw thr graphic differently, i.e. not use straight lines and a different way of presenting the text callouts. Also, you could massively improve perception by having the graphic move with a simple slow pan. the motion will lead to a more favorable distribution of the pixels across the scanlines, as the content changes every frame and in addition, motion blur will help to reduce flicker. Lastly, give the graphic some finesse by perhaps making the lines white and adding a dark outer glow to separate them from the background. these blended areas also help to reduce artifacts that appear with harsh transitions on straight lines. If it's an option , you might even want to use color for the + and - cabling (usually blue and red). As Wade suggested, you might try rendering to a different spec, but depending on what your intended final output is, this may not help at all, so working a bit on the graphic might pay off more.
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hey,
This problem is driving me crazy. I have Adobe Illustrator cs4 installed (win.Vista), it runs o.k but I'm missing a lot of tools- I get all the main tool groups but the groups wont open` so I have the line tool but not arc or spiral, I have warp tool but not twirl or bloat, text area but not text path and so on.
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Let me ask a question, are you launching AI from an alias located on your desktop? Another Question did you move the Illustrator folder out of the Illustrator application folder and perhaps to a place where you could more easily launch it?
An alias is a copy of the icon of a folder or directory of fie that links it to the original and looks like the actual originl.
The aliases you know are My Computer, Internet Explorer, Documents etc that you find commonly on a PCs desktop.
This is the scenario that often takes place on a mac and probably would cause the same problem on a PC.
Instead of creating the alias to use as a link to launch the application you either copied the application it self or you moved it to the desktop.
What that means is that some essential links between the application are now broken such as some of the tools and menu items that reside in the Applications folders such as filters and effects, file formats and extensions.So they are not showing.
The way to fix this is either move the application back to to the Illustrator folder and read about how to make an alias or just launch it from the Start menu or delete the copy if you have a copy of the application on the desktop and again either make a proper alias or launch from the Start menu.
I do not know how this might effect the preferences on a PC but on the Mac it sometimes corrupts the preferences and they have to be trashed as well as correcting the problem.
Having written all of this there was another way this can manifest itself on both a Mac and PC and you might do a google search if what I describe above does not apply to you.
It was actually posted here about four or five months ago and it involved deleting a file.

CS4 details on Adobe website

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products
(Photoshop, DW, Fireworks etc) have been unveiled on Adobe's
website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/
Shipping dates have not yet been announced (presumably
tomorrow).
Regards
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Bruce BFD wrote:
>
> I use MC at work and WP at home. I'm having trouble
putting together a
> cohesive argument for my boss to pay for the upgrade,
and even less for
> upgrading my home system. I'm branching into video
editing and print at home,
> so I'd have to upgrade to MC and the thought of paying
$1600 for the features
> that I could have upgraded under CS3 for much less makes
me less than
> enthusiastic.
>
What do MC and WP stand for?
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to say I
don't appreciate CS4 - in the IT arena, it's probably the
best thing
that ever happened to me next to switching to a Mac. If Adobe
is a
pseudo-monopoly, it at least deserves credit for producing
quality
software, a far cry from Microsoft.
Still, the price tag is pretty steep for non-professionals -
and I feel
bad about the way they keep sticking it to Europeans.
It's amazing that they're maintaining their high prices even
as the
economy is spiraling out of control. I can't help but wonder
if perhaps
they've gone a little too far. Adobe's pricing strategy is
only fueling
a growing resentment, associating Adobe with the dreaded term
"monopoly," not good for public relations. I can only assume
it's
fueling the competition, as well.
Then again, it's possible that Adobe sees this as its last
opportunity
to make a killing. An economic slump will almost certainly
impact their
profits, and it could just be a matter of time before the
competition
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truly
radical upgrade. But the articles I read today don't sound
that exciting
- or am I missing something?
It also irks me that Adobe is making CS4 64-bit for Windows
but not
Apple...even though I don't understand the significance.
64-bit programs
simply process faster, right?
In somewhat related news, the netbook revolution is nicely
coordinated
with the economic crisis to exert enormous pressure on
hardware vendors
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$500, they
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software
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time.
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I haven't
even learned to use CS4 yet. I'm pretty comfortable with
Dreamweaver and
Photoshop, which I've used for years, but it's going to take
a while to
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:48:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need help with Flash CS4 buttons/can't get buttons to control anything
Hi there
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Yipee.
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Change Locale / UI Text Options of Photoshop CS4

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I recently installed CS4 Design Premium on a PC running Windows 7. When I resize an image (Image>Image Size), the dialog window always displays the Document Size in centimeters. Unfortunately I'm in the U.S. and haven't yet converted to the metric system and it's a royal pain to change the drop-down to inches each time.
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Is there any way to add the United States as a Locale without having to re-install the Suite?
The locale for the main program is defined by the serial, not necessarily by your language selection. Shared components derive their locale from this as well and/or in part from the system setting. That issue with installs wrongly using en_GB is quite common, though. It usually occurs when other Adobe software with shared components already was on the system and coerced the installer into using the wrong language. However, short of reinstalling everything Adobe after having sweeped clean with uninstalls and the CS4 Clean Script, there is no way to resolve this.
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Complaint: Animated GIF, Photoshop CS4

I am a freelance print designer. Needless to say that I have upgraded to the Design Standard Edition of the Creative Suite 4. Still, some customers ask me to do their web banners, too.
Fact 1:
There is an animation palette in Photoshop CS4 Standard.
Fact 2:
You can create animations with that palette.
Fact 3:
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I know this thread is getting on a bit now, but I do have the answers.
Quite simply, as far as I can tell, this cannot be done without Quicktime installed.
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I am transfering my stuff from my lap top to my desk top (both Mac). I cannot get my CS4 to open. It gives me a 150:30 error, licencing thing. I have no idea what to do and after hours of searching none of what I found helps. I don't know anything about t

Sorry didn't know that the first step was just supposed to be "subject".
So here it is again.
"I am transfering my stuff from my lap top to my desk top (both Mac). I cannot get my CS4 to open. It gives me a 150:30 error, licencing thing. I have no idea what to do and after hours of searching none of what I found helps. I don't know anything about this stuff so please don't answer with "maybe this willl work, or maybe that." I need a real answer please and I cannot find a way to actually contact Adobe. I also don't have a disk drive on this Mac. Thanks"
Also please feel free to e-mail the answer because I hate looking for these answers online. It takes me forever to find this section. Not that I have even even gotten a real answer.
[email protected]

Hi Sonia,
While transferring Adobe from laptop to PC the licensing files got corrupt and the right way to use Adobe Applications is to install first as transferring from a different machine can give you problems.
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Is there at least a way of deleting the transcription in PP or Acrobat?
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But I find it amazing that there's no way to delete the damn thing. Adobe made a big deal of transcription, but it seems they didn't regard it as more than a gimmick, since they did it half-baked. I think you're right that it's best not to use this "feature".
I don't know if it's necessarily half-baked, so much as it is an overly optimistic appraisal of the capability of the technology at this point in time. I mean, it does create words, and sometimes very interesting ones at that
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