Illustrator Character Download

[Maribeth Seagers]

Ijust started with character animator and started following a tutorial on how to create your own puppet in illustrator and then importing it to character animator. In the beggining everything worked well when it comes to the head and eyes but now my body wont get synced when I try to import it into character animator.

Hi! I am not sure this is your problem, but I notice multiple puppets in your project and you mention "importing" the puppet multiple times. So I just wanted to make sure you understood how Ch gets updates to puppet artwork.

To start a puppet for the first time, you import the artwork file (PSD/AI) into CH. This creates a Puppet in the project panel. After that you should never import the artwork again in that way. Instead you keep editing the artwork and just save it. When you return to the CH window it will detect the artwork file has changed and refresh the existing puppet. If you are uncertain which file a puppet is now using, you can use "Edit Original" (CNTRL-E) and it will bring up the editor on the file Ch is using. That way you can be sure which one is the right file. (The puppet has a "Path" property that points to the artwork file.)

If you import the artwork multiple times, you will start a new puppet each time, losing the rigging you started from the previous puppet. I noticed multiple puppets in the project panel so was not sure if they were just different penguins or you were importing the artwork multiple times creating new puppets each time.

What I normally do is do File/Save in Illustrator/Photoshop, wait one second, then flip the window to Character Animator. You should see a popup come up saying is "processing". This is it loading the new artwork file. After that finishes, then keep using CH.

If that does not work, there is a "Refresh" button at the bottom of the Scene panel. Try clicking it then using ALT+Click on it. This empties some caches. Very occasionally something gets confused in CH and that clears the problem out. I don't think that is your problem in this case, but certainly the Body hierarchy in your puppet should be showing all the sublayers. The only time it hides them is if you dont give them names

I have a frustrating problem with Chinese text in Illustrator. I am updating some graphics by changing English text to Chinese. I have been provided with Chinese translations in a Word document which are all entirely legible (if you read Chinese, of course). I have approached this in 3 ways and all 3 have thrown up problems:

Select and copy text in Word. Double click text in Illustrator so position is preserved, paste text. This sometimes works, but often several characters will be replaced with a crossed box (ie 'no character'). The font is set to SimSun in Word, but for some reason transfers to Kozuka Gothic when pasted. So I try and set the font back to SimSun, but it refuses to change.

Select and copy text in Word. Delete English textbox completely. Paste Chinese text directly into Illustrator. SimSun font is preserved and all characters show... but the text has a huge bounding box extending way out to the right, filled with empty characters. This means I either have to edit each text box and delete those characters, or deal with lots of overlapping bounding boxes.

Most problems with Chinese type resolve by changing the language (that little dropdown at the very bottom of the Character panel) to Chinese. If you change the language of the text frame to Chinese before you paste in the text, you should be okay.

This also holds true for individual CKJ characters in otherwise English text, in both Illustrator and InDesign (and probably Photoshop, although I've not had occasion to find out). You'll see errors unless you change the language of that character (or character style) to the correct one for that character.

I know this post is 2 years old now, but I was having trouble and came across a way around the problem that worked for me. I tried the other suggestions above and nothing worked. What did work was this:

In Photoshop, I've got in my character menu Horizontal and Vertical scaling. In Illustrator I don't have it, but I need it. I know I can stretch the entire text-box in AI to simulate character scaling, but that doesn't apply to the following cases:

EDIT: I do realize that to stretch an individual character, the text can be outlined, and the character can then be transformed; however, I'd say this should be a last resort, since it's irreversible, and changing the text afterward requires a complete redesign.

Illustrator has horizontal and vertical scale options just like Photoshop. But because Adobe are... special... they thought it would be fun to hide a lot of their settings and leave no clue that they are there.

Open up the flyout menu with the button at the top right of the character settings window. Choose "Show options", which is Adobe speak for "Stop hiding the tools I need, you crazy people". This shows the boxes for text scaling, as well as moving text up and down from the baseline, character rotation, language and things like superscript/subscript, underline, strikethrough, etc.

The Creative Could version of Illustrator will be updated on June 17, 2013. With this update, if you are a subscriber, there's a new feature called the Text Touchup Tool. (Click here and then click the Type Touch Tool for a video)

What this feature essentially does is allow you to "Free Transform" any individual character or characters within live text. These transformations can be much easier than using the fields in the Character Panel. Although the Character Panel also works.

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I just happened on this by accident, but when I went to the character window to select a font, the drop-down displayed all the fonts as samples, rather than just giving all the names in Helvetica or whatever. This was remarkable because I had never seen this before. A few minutes later I went back to select a new font, and instead of samples, it was back to the plain helvetica display.

Though I like this option, I suggest turning it off to speed up your machine when not needed, adn this can crash on certain systems especialy if you have a corrupt font. I usually do my font preview in Suitcase, as I can get the font bigger and make a better choice for a headline font. I also like suitcase cause I can sort all my fonts by styles (transitional, slab serif, dingbats, art deco)

Just about any company I independant contract work for has font problems they do not know how to solve them, so they use workarounds like setting palatino Italic on Machine number 9 cause it is the only one that works.

Suitcase is the msot comprehensive solution and has almost everything you need to fix fonts. For you it may not be needed, but I think it is the best font management soluition out there, and I have tested it thoroughly against most every product out there from Linotyope, Fontagent, Corel Font Navigator, ATM.

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