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How can i display the measurements on my approval?
Hey guys
I need a little help. We all get our artwork approved before carrying out the work, I use a form found on here, I thinks it’s great so thanks for sharing that, but i want to add the dimensions of the artwork.
i.e. if i design a logo for a T-Shirt, say 13 inches, is it possible to have a bar underneath the logo stating that it is 13 inches so the customer is not confused
Does that make sense? I’ve attached a quick picture to show you what i mean.
I’m using illustrator, i’ve searched for plugins etc but can’t find nothing myself but i’m sure i’ve seen it somewhere before, has any of you come across this or use something similar?
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Couldn’t you make a symbol for the line, place it on the art board, then re-size accordingly?
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Hi David
I could do but i was hoping for a quick plugin that i could drag and it would display the correct size in the space of a couple of seconds with no hassle.
I have seen it somewhere, i’m guessing on a piece of other software which would be typical in my case lol
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hi daniel signlab has this
derek
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CadTools does this. It isn’t cheap though….
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Flexi has this too – sorry I know thats not the answer you want 😕
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Guys, he’s looking for an illustrator plugin… i dont think he be willing to learn other software at this time
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Acrobat has it, just save your ai doc as a pdf and do it in acrobat,
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quote Robert T Walker:Acrobat has it, just save your ai doc as a pdf and do it in acrobat,Aha! Must try this as well. Thanks!
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Yep, I wish there were more options for that sort of thing. We still use FreeHand MX and have to do all of our dimensions manually. I have a few different ones set up in my FH Library that are set to 1"(h) x 1"(w) (but you could do millimeters of course). I pull them from my Library and then just line them up and then move the points to match heights and widths. I have one that’s nested and one that’s not. I sometimes do have to add more nesting depending on what I’m drawing. Another good thing to add to your drawing is a scale guide (see top right corner of 1st attachment). We constantly have people that print out the drawings smaller than they were meant to be and then wonder why the scaling is off when they measure them. This will let them measure it and see if the image has been inadvertently shrunk (or enlarged).
Hope this helps!
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I’m just chuffed to bits that all these big player software packages dont have the measurement tool that corel has 😎
Click the freehand flyout menu, click measurements, Choose unit of measurement, positioning of dimension. Click first node, click second – format the font and off we go 😉
My other half found that little gem, I dont like to admit it but its dead handy!
Andy
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Easysign has it 😀
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I couldn’t agree more Andy. I also hate how Illustrator doesn’t have a way to set up custom rulers for working in different scales (especially large architectural scales that won’t fit on the standard art-board). It helps me tremendously in FH to be able to switch scales quickly. If I could get dimension lines and custom rulers in Illustrator we’d probably switch now that they have multiple pages.
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Omega has it, and as Andy says so does Corel.
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Like i said before acrobat has a fantastic tool for doing this, set your scale select point a and point b and its done, there is also an area tool which can be handy.
its not massively difficult to do in illustrator draw a line set arrows with the arrow tool draw a text box
a plug in would be good but it would have to be Free
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the top text i did the measurements in illustrator
and the bottom in acrobatboth only took 2 min
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