Trouble with Illustrator, Need help

[Souad@adobeforums.com]

[Souad@adobeforums.com]

I use Illustrator 10 with mac OS X, since 1 or 2 weeks i had some problem. Illustrator don't want to join lines (lines are not amalgamate : Shift + apple + G). Can you help me?
Thanks in advance

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

It's hard to undersatnd your problem. I'll need a more thorough description of what you are doing, what you want to happen, and what is actually happening.

If you are trying to join two points, then they must be either stray points (little Xs, but not the ones placed at the centre of ovals or rectangles) or end points of open paths. The two points (no more, no less) must be the only selected points. Select them with the direct select tool (shortcut: A) then type Command-J. If you want the two points to be in the same place and become one point, then either average them first (Command-Shift-J) or drag one point onto the other until it snaps to the point's location.

[Erich_Kocher@adobeforums.com]

I've always had trouble with Illustrator 9 and my G3 tower - OS 9.2 running.
It is very slowwww to move, select, etc. a basic vector design around. It hesitates before it does what you just selected or moved....
Illustrator 6,7, and 8 always worked great.
• I have 80 megs of ram allocated
• I have 560 megs of ram in the computer
• I'm not running anything else
• I've thrown away the prefs. and relaunched, setting up new prefs.

It just doesn't make sense. Any Help??????

Thanks.

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

To find the if there are stray points go to Select>other>Stray Points and then hit delete and save. I you need to join may end points you can go to

<http://personalpages.tds.net/~graffix/software/plugins.html>

and get Concatenate a plug in by Rick Johnson extremely useful I been thanked by some many people for making the suggestion about this plug in and have never heard a bad comment about it, not even one.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

Erich,

Upgrade to OSX and AICS. AI9 is inherently slower than any previous version.

[Erich_Kocher@adobeforums.com]

What makes it so slow?
Will AICS work with OS9.2?

Thanks for your help.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

It's slow just in nature. Ai9 was much slower than AI8 offf the shelf. I'm not a develoepr so I can't tell you why. it just was.

Sorry, AICS will not work with the classic OS, you'll need OS10.2.4 at the very least. AICS does bring a great deal speed back to Illustrator which v9 and 10 lacked.

If you can't upgrade to OSX, then AI8 is the best verion to use on yoru machine, in my opinion.

[Erich_Kocher@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for your help Scott.

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Scott wasn't one of them, but many people found Illustrator 10 to be almost as fast as 8, and considerably faster than 9, and it works in both OSX and OS9.

[Dee Holmes]

I agree, Gary.

I love Illustrator 10.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

I agree, Gary.

I wasn't one of those individuals. :)

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Scott loved AI 10 right out of the box! LOL!

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

Did not.

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Must have been one of the other Scotts. Sorry I got you confused.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

Your post was correct Gary. Wade is just messing around. You were right, I'm one of the people that did not find AI10 an improvement. Yes, it was better than 9 but it in no way compaired to 8. And CS blows them all away.

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

CS with all the bloat is an excellent performer even on my antiquated system I totally agree with you Scott and Gary and if it continues to improve it will be the must have application. There are so many things that I find that I use AI CS for the one thing I would really love to do is be able to save a 3D object so it could be used for the web and allow the web viewer the option to rotate this object(s) interactively from within the browser.