Andrew's Vector Plug-ins 11 'SymbolHeadline'

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• Banner plug-in for Illustrator® CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 10 using symbols
• Create hi-impact banner designs, layer designs and animations
• Export resulting banner designs to SWF and SVG or Photoshop
• For web designs
• Manipulate symbols: scaling, rotation, position jitter
• Randomly select symbols or use swatch order or single.
• Use your own designs or use native symbols or bonus symbols. Symbols: text, meshes, gradients, paths ...
• Bonus: symbols and styles

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)

Plug-in manual

Headline plugin for Illustrator

Create banner and headline designs using the plugin

Superb for dramatic effects

Rain effects, ever changing animations, backgrounds, animated backgrounds and textures and more

Easy to use

A simple easy-to-use plugin for Illustrator to create dynamic symbol banners or headlines, animated (or not). Powerful options/presets.

Create randomized designs

The plugin is packed with superb randomization features, use random selection of symbols and more.

Use symbols (text / images and more)

The plugin can use random symbols or ordered selection of symbols to great effect. Create truly superb text effects and more.

Presets

The plugin has many presets included to help you use the plug-in as well as showcase many different effects. The actual result of the preset depends on the symbols actually stored in the symbols palette

Symbols palette

Symbols are accessed via the symbols palette. Place in the symbols palette. Access via the plugin to create stunning visual effects

Illustrator Native symbols

Use native symbols or use native brushes and convert to symbols. Illustrator comes with a huge selection of native symbols but you can also easily create your own. Simply drag an image or path or set of paths into the symbols palette. The symbol palette can also be modified, items removed, positions changed, symbols re-defined etc

Symbols scruncher

Once the symbols have been added, you can also use the native symbol tools such as scruncher to tweak

Replace symbols

Or replace the symbols at a later stage of creative process

Export symbols

Save output as SWF or Save as SVG

Dynamic symbols

Create dynamic banner as well as standard path illustrations

Effects and symbols

Use in combo with the wonderful 3D effects or sketches styles in CS or CS2 or CS3

Animations

Great for animations

Initial size and symbols

The symbols have a set size and initial angle, the plugin can set the symbol initial size and angle (though this is not any particular use if one of the symbols is 20 times the size of another as all the symbols are reduced in size. The symbol headline tool works best if all the symbols are the same size. There is no particular easy way of doing this via the palette, other than re-creating the symbol and reducing or increasing the size or changing the angle.

Placements

The plugin defaults to displaying the symbols in all the slots of the headline.. So if 10 symbols are requested, 10 symbols are slotted in at 20pt gaps by default. If you wish to have a random placement or perhaps 2 symbols gap 2 symbols gap, the placement option needs to be set. The placement also controls the randomization of the symbols so perhaps more symbols than gaps are created or just 50-50

Symbols order

If there is more than one symbol in the symbols palette, symbols are either selected in an ordered manner from the symbols palette or picked randomly depending on the options set on the dialog. For example - display ABCDEFGHIJK or AHDDIJBHJKE etc