Couldn’t remember how did I come across this blog site: “The dieline - The web’s leading package design blog“. It’s really worth visiting daily. The editor share a lot of design related to packaging, in latest design trends and styles. Designers can get a lot of design inspiration from the blog and keep updated with the trend. Now, many have become the contributors to this blog, making it more fruitful.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML specification and file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics)SVG wouldn’t pixelated or become blurred when we scale up or zoom in the graphic. There are some great resources of SVG files in the internet that help to speed up designing process.
Here is an example of using SVG:
Say you need to insert a Nike logo in your Illustrator artwork, but the logo file is not provided by your client. Instead of tracing it (a more complex logo will take more time and might not getting a very good result), you can actually go to Google, search for “wiki svg nike”. Click on the suitable result link. Normally the first result is the one that we’re looking for. For this example, we get “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nike(c).svg“. Simply download the SVG file to your computer. Next, use the Adobe Illustrator to open the file. Here it is, just copy the vector and paste in your artwork.
Recently, when I was compiling an artwork using Illustrator CS2, I received this error while trying to save the file: “An unknown error has occurred”. The OS I’m using is Windows XP.
After trying to rebuild the artwork and failed to save it several times, I gave up and search for a solution in Google. Then I found this in Adobe’s site:
Solution 1: Re-create the Transparency Flattner Presets file.
Solution 2: Repair or reinstall Illustrator.
Solution 3: Save your file as an EPS file.
Solution 4: Save your file without PDF compatibility.
For more details and step by step guidance (if you’re not sure how to do it), refer this URL: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=332690&sliceId=2
My opinion is, despite all the solutions suggested, try increase your computer’s RAM and processing power; Or don’t make the Illustrator artwork too complicated for your computer to read and calculate. Remember, K.I.S.S.