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Andrew's Vector Plug-ins 9 'SymbolTexture'     US $15 DOWNLOAD Texture and design generator plug-in for Illustrator® using the symbol palette and symbols Use native symbols or your own or bonus symbols Create dramatic text designs in seconds Many different unique texture designs. Modify the distribution, density, rotation, scaling of symbols Use in animation designs Use to create unique hi-impact frames, tiles, dividers, patterns, textures, overlays and much more Use for T-shirts, fashion, DVDs, scrapbooking, CDs, books, music events, leaflets, illustrations, web designs, packaging.. Bonus: Symbols and graphic styles 9.4 Update to CS4 for PC  + MAC OS X November 1st 2008 Windows Vista + Windows XP + MAC OS X 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Adobe ® Illustrator® CS4 CS3 + CS2 + CS1 + 10   PC demo (the demo is currently not for CS4) OS X demo (the demo is currently not for CS4) Manual

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Plug-in notes

1] Textures

Create exciting textured backgrounds / designs with this powerful symbol plugin.

2] Density

The background design can take many forms such as filling the entire document, or perhaps a very small area such as a cross design or a frame and other symbol distributions

3] Edge size

Control the size of the edge and the middle of the background design

4] Random

Create controlled designs or totally randomized designs. The plug-in can be used to create a design using the current selected symbol or the plug-in will randomly select symbols from the symbols palette.

5] Symbols

Use the symbol texture tool with any symbols (images etc). The document can be filled with pages of text or pages of your favourite football or celebrity or hearts and other designs, basically anything.

6] Frames

Create hi-impact frame designs using the density / distribution features of the plug-in. The symbols are all placed around the edge of the document, combined with rotation and scaling and other settings, many different frame designs can be created

7] Animations

Use the textures plug-in to create animations (via layers). The plug-in comes with options to generate items across layers, modify the density, the rotation across layers. The layers can then be exported to other formats such as SWF creating unique animated texture designs

8] Spray

Modify the design further using the native Illustrator® spray tools. The symbols generated by the plug-in can be further modified by selecting the symbols and using the symbols tools to increase or decrease size, shift the symbols, rotate the symbols, apply varying degrees of opacity as well as staining the symbols with the current color. The symbols can also be replaced using the replace command in the symbols palette.

Plug-in symbols

Symbols are a great way of creating in Illustrator. It is a store for nearly all types of path and path combinations as well as images and more. Useful for creating multiple instances with little overhead. Symbols can be modified at any point in the creative process. Symbols can be used in other area of Illustrator

Symbols are all accessed via the symbols palette, load libraries of symbols and select via the symbols palette

• Symbols can be
• 3D designs
• Brushes
• Clipping masks
• Combinations
• Gradients
• Gradient meshes
• Images
• Multiple paths
• Paragraph of text
• Paths
• Patterns
• Text
• Text on a path
• and any combo

It is very easy to create your own symbols for use with the plug-in i.e. simply select some text or an image and drag into the symbols palette. If you wish to fill the document with letters, remove all the current symbols and drag text, ordered or random text into the symbols palette and apply the plug-in