{"id":12308,"date":"2007-04-08T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/a-great-video-tour-of-illustrator-cs3.html"},"modified":"2007-04-08T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T15:07:46","slug":"a_great_video_tour_of_illustrator_cs3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/a_great_video_tour_of_illustrator_cs3\/","title":{"rendered":"A great video tour of Illustrator CS3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Oh my&#8211;it&#8217;s like Illustrator and Flash have run off and gotten married,&quot; says Mordy Golding in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeprofessional.org\/podcasts\/rwip_0307.mp4\">the latest episode<\/a> of his <a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Real World Illustrator<\/a> video podcast.&#160; Mordy, formerly a PM on the Illustrator team, hits not only the big-ticket items, but also the little things that sometimes matter most.&#160; I only wish Mordy had spent more time on the rad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/illustrator\/upgrade\/\">Live<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2007\/03\/26\/cs3illustrator\/index.php\">Color<\/a> feature in AICS3&#8211;but he promises to delve deeper into it in a future episode.&#160; (It&#8217;s one of those features that makes Photoshop and the other apps jealous, so we&#8217;ll have to try to steal it in the future. ;-)) <\/p>\n<p>From the podcast I learned a little detail that I think is quite cool: the new Flash Text panel (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/ai_flash_text.html\">screenshot<\/a>) lets you designate text to be used in Flash as static or dynamic.&#160; You can even designate the URL from which the text is fed.&#160; And, as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/03\/adobe_mm_cornucopia.html\">mentioned previously<\/a>, Illustrator now lets you name &amp; edit symbols just as you do in Flash, and symbols, instance names, gradients, etc. are preserved when you copy and paste from Illustrator to Flash.&#160; <em>Niiice<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Oh my&#8211;it&#8217;s like Illustrator and Flash have run off and gotten married,&quot; says Mordy Golding in the latest episode of his Real World Illustrator video podcast.&#160; Mordy, formerly a PM on the Illustrator team, hits not only the big-ticket items, but also the little things that sometimes matter most.&#160; I only wish Mordy had spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}