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Friday April 16th 2004 03:35 PM PST

i was up til about 3AM last night. Jen kept me up because she needed help with her report card comments. She types them out and then i print them on avery labels. Then she can stick them on the report cards, and she doesn't have to hand write 20 copies. Problem is, i've got a stupid way i lay out the template, and feed the printer, so Jen needed me awake to do it for me.

Well the result is... I can't fuckin keep my eyes open. I've been dozing off all day long. I walked over to Fatburger and that was the end of me. After lunch my body has just refused to stay alert. I even stopped by Gelson's and bought a couple can's of AMP. All that did was make my body twitchy. My eyes still won't stay open. BUT during the day i've found a number of really funny things with Illustrator 10 and Flash MX 2004. Now there are two basic ways to get something from Illustrator to Flash. First you can have Illustrator do the translation from Illustrator vector data to SWF. Use the save for web option then select SWF output. This does a decent job, but don't expect ANYTHING with gradient fills to work. The other way is to save the ai file and then import it using Flash. Now in this case Flash does the translation. Again it does a decent job, but the gradients fills are trashed again. Even more of a problem is the color shifting when you import a CMYK ai file into flash. Now just talking about this is making me tired again. The end of the story is. Most of the artwork that the artist built for me is useless cause the translations just trash it. well back to work.