PLUGIN SET 1

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Creation (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 01)

Plugin set contains plugins for creation of paths.

Installation of Plugins

Please place the GX01_Abstract.aip, GX01_Duplication.aip, GX01_RoundDuplication.aip, GX01_Circled.aip,GX01_Duplicator.aip files in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator ® CS] or c:\programfiles\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] or CS1 or CS2 equivalent

For the mac, please place the GX01_Abstract, GX01_Duplication, GX001_RoundDuplication, GX01_Circled, GX01_Duplicatorfiles in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator ®CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins[mac Illustrator 10] or CS1 or CS2 equivalent

Initial Use of plugins

Please access via the filters menu of Illustrator ® via the <AVP Paths> menu. The plugins appear in the path's menu as theyrequire paths to create, without a path selected, the menu items will be faded. The plugins use a path or selected paths orimages or symbols or other items. The abstract plugin requires no path but perhaps some initial setup of fill or stroke or bothas required and appears in the AVP Create.

Applications support

macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Ilustrator ®10 CS1 CS2

Questions

Please contact me on [email protected]. Other plugins are available on the site http://www.graphicxtras.comUpgrades are generally available, either as free updates or inexpensive updates/upgrades. Please store the reference serialnumber or details of order

Copyright

The plugins are copyright of 1999-2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). This product was released by Abneil Softwareltd (UK based company)

Trademarks

Illustrator and Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe. We have no connection whatsoever with Adobe.Adobe product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Abstract

Plugin to create kris crossing lines. The result can be just a set of lines, great for a background, or perhaps a stained glasswindow, or a very abstract effect. Split into two dialogs

'Abstract' dialog

'Number of lines': Creates a certain number of lines. The first point is created at a random position within the document andthe end point is created up to the jitter distance entered (or less) and limited to the document (if set) and the next line iscreated from this position and so on. The lines cross over previously created lines (or not, randomly)

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'Number of line sets': Instead of creating one set of lines, multiple line sets can be created. The start position for each set iscreated randomly within the document. The lines can be individually colored (though the individual lines within the setcannot) as well as random fills, etc. Combined with opacity and other settings, many unusual abstract designs can be created(if you wish, you can also release to layers via the layers palette) each path set, and created an animated random abstractline design.

'Jitter distance': This is the maximum distance in points from point to point. If set to 100,100 then the next point will be anydistance in either direction up to 100 points in the horizontal and 100 points in the vertical. If you wish to create a thin orflattened line set, set the jitter distance of one direction to a low value.

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'Settings' dialog

'Limit to document': By default, the points are created only within the current defined document width and height (so if youcreate 500 points, all 500 points will be either inside the document space and more likely all around the edge of thedocument). If not set, the lines can sprawl outwards randomly to fill the entire work space.

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'Fill [R]': If there is no fill, this will not work (also the document color space has to match the actual fill color mode). If thereis a fill, then the fill for a created set will be randomly generated based on the current color space (RGB etc)

'Fill swatch [R]': This supersedes the basic fill. If set, and there is a fill, the fills are taken from the current swatch palette. Ifyou want to create a design filled with gradients only, remove all the swatches such as patterns or basic color fills, and leaveonly gradients; or if you want a design filled with blues, fill the swatches palette with only blue swatches

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'Stroke [R]': The basic functionality of the plugin is design based around a stroke (though if no stroke is set, randomizationwill be ignored). This creates random stroked colored lines. Works best, probably, without a fill set.

'Stroke swatch [R]': Supersedes the stroke setting. Randomly selects swatches from the swatches palette. To fill the lines withreddish lines, add red swatches to the swatches palette and remove all non-red swatches. Gradient swatches cannot be used(sadly) as a swatch for strokes.

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'Opacity [R]': Set the lines to variable opacity

'Width [R]': Vary the line width (or weight) from 0 to the pre-plugin line width (randomly). If you wish to have a widervariation of line widths, set the line width before starting the plugin to a large value (20 pts or so)

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Circled

Plugin to create a basic ring of a selected path or paths or images or symbols (basic version of round duplication)

'Circle' dialog

'Number of circles': The number of circles (or rings of items) to create. For a basic circular design, set to 1.

'Items per circle': Number of items or copies of the original selected path to create per circle.

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'Gap between circles': Gap between the circles (radial)

'Rotation applied': Angle / rotation applied to the path. This is useful for different designs from the same basic shape.

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'Variance' dialog

'Gap between circles' options: Instead of just applying a basic gap between circles, the circle can be randomly placed,accumulated, and more.

'Settings dialog'

'Fill [R]: The paths are filled with random colors (this odes depend on the path color type / mode as well as document colormode and there being a fill in the first place)

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'Stroke [R]': Random stroke color. More useful, probably, with no fill

'Weight [R]': Line width randomly set between the zero and the original line width.

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'Opacity [R]': The generated paths are set with a transparency between 0 and 100%

'Blend [R]': The paths are given a random blend mode, such as difference or multiply (for odd color combinations)

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'Delete original': The plugin, sadly, leaves the original path displayed during the preview (it needs the path). The path can bedeleted on exit (the default), if required.

'Warp [R]': The newly created paths are warped using a variety of random envelopes and envelope settings.

'Alternate': Alternate paths are doubled in size. Creates unusual and interesting path designs.

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Duplication

Plugin to create a grid of selected paths or path or images or symbols.

'Rows' dialog

'Rows / gap': Number of rows followed by the gap between the rows and the gap variant setting + gap variant options (suchas accumulate or random between 0 and entered value)

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'Scale': Re-sizing or scaling applied to the paths from row to row, shrinking or growing the duplicated paths

'Slant': Slant or angle applied to the overall duplication row by row.

'Columns' dialog

'Columns / gap': Number of columns, gap between columns, an additional gap distance (variant) and options relating to thegap variant value (such as applying as an accumulation)

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'Scale': Scaling applied to duplicated paths on a column by column basis, shrinking or growing the paths.

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'Slant': Slant applied on a column by column basis

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'Apply' dialog

'Rows skip/create': Skip or create rows

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'Columns skip/create': Skip or create columns

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'Rotate' dialog

'Columns rotation': Rotate paths followed by a rotation variant setting (which can be modified by the rotation dropdown toapply the variant setting as an accumulation or randomization)

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'Jitter': Jitter applied to the angle, so instead of applying an angle of 20 degrees, the angle can be anything between -20 and20 degrees.

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'Center': The center of rotation by default is the path itself but by setting the rotation dropdown to user defined setting, thecenter can be modified to any point required (this is applied to each path)

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'Style' dialog

'Fill': By default, the fill and color settings are off. The values will not be accessible until you set a type of fill such as anaccumulation or randomization via the dropdown. Use the fill setting (it requires the paths to have a fill, so fill will not workwith images or symbols). The fill can be used to create colorful blends from left to right.

'Stroke': As with fill but applied to the stroke.

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'Weight': Or line width. If there is no width, this will have no effect. Set the dropdown to access the width value. The widthunit is /10th of a point. The width can be accumulated, randomized, and more

'Settings' dialog

'Flip 180': Flip the path on alternate paths

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'Opacity [R]': Randomization of the transparency of the generated paths

'Scaling [R]': The scaling is randomized between 0 and the current value

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'Selected center': The scaling for the plugin is applied to the center of all the selected paths instead of individual paths.Depends on the path setup, especially if you are applying to a row of text say

'Delete original': The original path is deleted by default, it can be kept by setting the checkbox to off

'Place above': All the paths are created above the previous paths. You can reverse this and place all the new paths beneaththe previous path (which might or might not be useful for your design)

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'Link': By default, the link is ON and all the rows and columns data is linked. Turn it to off, if you wish to have more rows orcolumns than the other

Duplicator

Plugin to create a basic grid of paths (basic version of duplication - though with its own set of unique features)

'Grid' dialog

'Rows/gap': Number of rows and gap between rows

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'Columns/gap': Number of columns and gap between columns

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'Rotation applied': Angle / rotation applied to the paths

'Variance' dialog

'Resize': Scaling applied to the paths

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'Midpoint': The midpoint of the grid for scaling purposes (after the midpoint, the path changes growth direction)

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'Midpoint options': Different type of midpoint / scaling options

'Interpolate style': Interpolates the style (fill etc) of the original path and the currently created path. Useful for creating anaveraging of values (such as a fill)

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'Settings' dialog

'Fill [R]': Randomly fill the paths

'Stroke [R]': Random stroke colors (requires a path stroke)

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'Weight [R]': Width / weight randomly set between 0 and path line width

'Opacity [R]': Path's opacity is set randomly between 0 and 100

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'Blend [R]': The path's blending mode is randomly set to difference, multiply, lighten, etc

'Delete original': Deletes the original path (default) on clicking OK. During the preview, the path will be visible

'Warp [R]': Warps the generated paths using random envelopes and envelope settings

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'Doubled': Doubles the size of alternate paths

'Link': Links the rows and columns

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'Flip 90': Flips alternate paths by 90 degrees

'Fill / Stroke [S]': Fills the path and stroke depending on the angle

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Round Duplication

Plugin to create a set of path rings.

'Main' dialog

'Copies': Number of copies to create in a ring

'Initial distance': Initial distance from the origin point

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'Scale': Scaling applied to the paths (horizontal vertical)

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'Shift': Shift applied to the paths

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'Alternate shift': Shift applied to alternate generated paths (radial)

'Accumulate shift': Accumulated shift (radial), resulting in a spiral.

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'Angle' dialog

'Center' options: By default, the rotation is applied about the middle bottom of the path, set the path's rotation center to apath or a path center or random or a different part of the path

'Selected path center': Instead of scaling about the individual path center, scaling is applied to the group of selected paths (tokeep everything relative)

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'User defined center': Ignored if the rotation dropdown is not set to the user defined center option, otherwise set the rotationto a different part of the document for varying dramatic path effects

'Angle': Additional rotation applied to the path about its own center, great for creating different pattern designs, even bychanging a path by 10 degrees

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'Angular shift': The path's are rotated about the current rotation center and shifted, perfect for alignments

'Use supplied angle': Instead of using the calculated angle to create a set of paths, this angle is used. If 10 paths are to becreated, normally these would be spaced 36 degrees apart. Use this to set the angle to 10 or 20 or greater.

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'Maximum angle (360)': By default, the entire ring or circle is used in the creation of the paths. Use this value to override thisand set it to a semi circle or quarter circle.

'Apply' dialog

'Path apply': Instead of creating all the paths, gaps can be created between paths, bunching paths. The first field is thenumber of 'paths' to skip, the second the number of paths to create before before the next skip.

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'Pattern factor': Setting applied to a number of different settings throughout the plugin, such as scaling (check the settingsdialog for the checkboxes to set which ones are applied and which ones are not)

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'Pattern apply': The pattern factor is applied based on its own skip or 'apply' settings. So if set to 1:1 then one path will havethe pattern applied, the next path won't, and so on

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'Rings' dialog

'Rings': Number of rings to create

'Rings radial / angular shift': Radial factor and angular shift modified from ring to ring

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'Rings override copies / 360': Angle used and maximum angle factor applied ring to ring

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'Rings scale factor': The scale factor ring to ring. So if set to 50, then the scale of the paths in the next 'ring' will be half thesize of the previous rings

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'Rings shift factor': The shift factor modified ring to ring

'Rings pattern factor': Pattern factor modified ring to ring (if set to 50 the pattern factor will be half the size of the previousring)

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'Rings fill factor': The fill color factor applied ring to ring. If set to 50, the fill will be darker or lighter in the next ring(depending on the color mode)

'Rings width factor': The width is modified ring to ring by the width factor. If set to 50 then the width of the stroke in the nextring will be half that of the previous ring

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'Fill' dialog

'Fill': The path's fill is modified by the fill settings and fill options. Useful for creating unusual path color blends or filling thepaths with random colors

'Stroke': As with fill, the stroke color is filled with varying color or random colors. Probably more useful if no fill is set

'Width': The path's width is modified by the width settings, either accumulating to create thicker or thinner width lines orrandom thickness lines (for sketch effects)

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'Settings' dialog

'Opacity [R]': The path's opacity is randomly set. Great for unusual overlapping effects. The path opacity can be furthermanipulated on exit.

'Patterns apply to rings': Pattern factor is applied to the ring setting

'Patterns apply to ring angular shift': Pattern factor is applied to the ring angular shift

'Pattern apply to horizontal scale': Pattern factor is applied to the horizontal scale setting

'Pattern apply to vertical scale': Pattern factor is applied to the vertical scale setting

'Pattern apply to horizontal shift': Pattern factor is applied to the horizontal shift setting

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'Pattern apply to vertical shift': Pattern factor is applied to the vertical shift setting

'Pattern apply to angular shift': Pattern factor is applied to the angular shift setting (first dialog)

'Flip alternate': The paths are flipped alternately (by 90 degrees) for different design patterns

'Delete original [after OK]': The original path is deleted (by default this is on). The path is visible during the preview but it isdeleted on OK / exit of the plugin

'Scale using center of all the selected paths': Instead of scaling about the individual path centers, the scaling center is set toall the selected path's group center (this keeps everything relative)

'Place above previous paths': Places all newly generated paths on top of the previous path (if set to off, the paths are createdbeneath the previous paths)

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