Hi Brian, oops left that one out, I've put it in the main list now, thanks!

- Michael

Woot!

Fantastic update Michael.


-Shane

I found a bug in the first sentance of this thread:

"""""""""A new v3 beta (version Mar-17-2013) is now available for download here:"""""""""""""""""

:o

Hi Burr,

> I found a bug in the first sentance of this thread:

These are my favorite bugs because they're easy to fix! :) Thanks for the heads up.

- Michael

Whew! Now MoI will no longer give us the "sausage." :-o

Now cut and paste to AI! I'll definitely find that especially useful.

And Blend... Christmas came early again! :-)

Very well done on this release Michael! Thanks!

Hi Michael

Adobe Illustrator clipboard support

...that's SUPER handy and works quite well..in both directions!

Thanks,
Marco

>..in both directions!

He's right!

Hol-y-cow. Very useful, indeed.

Hi Beetle, since your post was not asking about something specific to this new beta release, I moved it to its own thread over here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6100.1

- Michael

re: copy from MoI to Illustrator - using either AI format or PDF format should work but you'll probably want to use AI format since Illustrator does not read layers from PDF files.

According to Adobe, Acrobat is the main thing to use for editing PDF files and it reads all sorts of PDF specific stuff that Illustrator won't really deal with (see Adobe discussion thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/509192).

But possibly for other illustration programs or other more PDF specific programs like Acrobat using PDF on the clipboard would be good.

- Michael

OSX 10.8.4 here running on a Macpro with Illustrator CS6 (v16.0.4)

Copy/paste .PDF to Illustrator is working perfectly, colors are preserved

Copy/paste .AI is working in the MoI 3D side (selecting the view and fit to page or not) but doesn't fill the clipboard in AI (paste is greyed out in AI)

Copy/paste from AI to MoI 3D is working but lines are exported as two lines (for example a 1pt width line is 2 lines in moi with a small gap between them like if it was treated as a surface in AI)

But that's already a huuuuuuge step forward, huge time saver !

Thanks for everything :)

We'll train another person here and buy him a license soon !

OS X 10.8.4 and Illustrator CS3 (13.0.1) here.

Copy/Paste from MoI to AI works for PDF but not for AI format. Just as Shapenoid described above.

Copy/Paste vector art from AI, iDraw.app or Sketch.app to MoI works very well. I see no double lines issue.


Thank you for this great update!

Awesome Beta!!!

The <-> clipboard illustrator is a very productive feature and It seems to work fine.
I really appreciate this detail and also colors retained in AI files.

I wonder if it would be possible to have the copy to pdf without the popup dialog?
It could take top view and no scale to page by default.

Marc

Hi Marc,

> I wonder if it would be possible to have the copy to pdf without the popup dialog?
> It could take top view and no scale to page by default.

I'll see about making it possible to optionally pass in parameters to the script method that does the copy, so that you can avoid the dialog.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

since i don't have Illustrator i thought i test my little iDraw app, from the Mac App Store, with pdf to clipboard from MoI and voilá it works nicely! :-)

Best regards
Stefan

Thanks Michael,

I imagine it must've been complicated implementing the Pdf file export?
Not being the most friendly format and all...

Marc

Hi Marc,

> I imagine it must've been complicated implementing the Pdf file export?
> Not being the most friendly format and all...

I found a good library that helped me quite a bit, but yeah still it needed quite a bit of study of some of the details of the PDF file structure, it is really pretty complex. The reference document for it is 1310 pages long!

But a lot of things use it so it should hopefully be useful to have it in MoI.

- Michael

Hi DesuDeus, I've installed the OSX Illustrator CS6 trial to investigate these OSX clipboard issues.

One thing you wrote was:

> Copy/paste from AI to MoI 3D is working but lines are exported as two lines (for example a 1pt width line is 2
> lines in moi with a small gap between them like if it was treated as a surface in AI)

I can't seem to repeat this over here, when I draw a line with 1pt with in Illustrator and then copy it and paste it into MoI, I only seem to get one line not any doubled lines...

Does it happen when some particular other properties are set on the line like a kind of line pattern or anything like that?

I think I can probably get the AI format transfer working too, that's the next thing I'm investigating.

- Michael

re: Illustrator clipboard AI format - I've got that working now for the next v3 beta.

The advantage to AI format as compared to PDF is that layers will also come over into Illustrator with AI format, as long as "Paste Remembers Layers" is enabled on the Illustrator layer panel menu.

So anyway that should be fixed in the next beta.

- Michael

Great update, thanks Michael !