Illustrator CS Exporting Help

[Kidd]

Hey, I been playin around in illustrator recently, trying to make icons for object dock, and I all was fine till I started exporting, is there a way when saving as a .png to expand the canvas size to make gaps in between images?

[unit_number_43]

Illustrator automatically crops to the largest object you have... So, the quick fix is to put a transparent box the size that you want (probably 64x64 in this case) and then put your image inside that box, using it as the canvas area.

There is almost certainly another way around this, but this method works for me.

[Kidd]

Thanks man, will try it out.

[Tesseract]

I don't think there is, actually, that's the method I always used in Illustrator CS/CS2...

CS3 has the crop tool, though, which is much easier. Saves you having to crop the thing in photoshop or paint or whatever to the size you want, too.

[Kidd]

Great, I better crack.....................i mean buy CS3 now.

[Tesseract]

Took me something like ten days to... uh, for it to come through the post over here.