Few Quick Questions with Adobe Illustrator

[joeycuccaro 0]

Hey all,

New with tracing in AI. I have a few quicl questions.

Some people have sent me their logo files which are extremely big. When i bring them into AI they are much larger than the given white spacer in AI.

My first question is, does the image need to be within the boarders before doing a live trace? If so, what is the best way to shrink it down that keeps it proportional with the original file? When resizing the files, should i make the dimensions the actual dimensions that i want to cut out with the cutter, or does it not matter since my cutting program asks for the sizes?

Thanks for the help.

Joey

[mark-s 1,126]

Bring it into Photoshop and resize first.

Go to image-resize and make the size you want.

mark-s

[joeycuccaro 0]

Simple enough. Thanks Mark!

[mark-s 1,126]

mark-s

[hockeygirl 30]

You can also resize the artboard in AI to make it bigger than the design, then zoom out to fit all in window.