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Manipulating/Arranging PDFs containing vector images (Illustrator Help)
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Neat-o, mosquito!Registered User regular
Neat-o, mosquito!Registered User regular
Hey gang, your friendly neighborhood bug guy here with a question.
I've got a TON of graphs that I'm outputting as part of a manuscript. For some of them, I've been easily able to export them from my code (R) as a nice, multi-panel plot.
However, for a few of them, I want to arrange them with some vector graphics I've drawn to help illustrate a point.
My question is this. I have five .pdf files, two containing some hand drawn vector images, three containing graphs that are saved as vector image files also.
Now, I know I can just open up Illustrator and use the Paste function to bring all the images together, but I'm having a hell of a time resizing things the way I want them, and manipulating groups of vector images.
Basically, I'm trying to do the things I'm used to doing in GIMP, where I open a bunch of high-resolution .tiff files, arrange them on a canvas, then output a nice, high-res .tiff with all my plots and labels and graphics together.
Anyone handy with illustrator that can point me to a few tutorials?
I'm a bit leery about posting images of what I'm trying to do out in the open, because it's unpublished data, but I can PM people some of the files I'm trying to achieve if this is confusing.
EDIT: The reason I'm worrying about these being vector images, is that is what the publishing journal requires for submission.
I've got a TON of graphs that I'm outputting as part of a manuscript. For some of them, I've been easily able to export them from my code (R) as a nice, multi-panel plot.
However, for a few of them, I want to arrange them with some vector graphics I've drawn to help illustrate a point.
My question is this. I have five .pdf files, two containing some hand drawn vector images, three containing graphs that are saved as vector image files also.
Now, I know I can just open up Illustrator and use the Paste function to bring all the images together, but I'm having a hell of a time resizing things the way I want them, and manipulating groups of vector images.
Basically, I'm trying to do the things I'm used to doing in GIMP, where I open a bunch of high-resolution .tiff files, arrange them on a canvas, then output a nice, high-res .tiff with all my plots and labels and graphics together.
Anyone handy with illustrator that can point me to a few tutorials?
I'm a bit leery about posting images of what I'm trying to do out in the open, because it's unpublished data, but I can PM people some of the files I'm trying to achieve if this is confusing.
EDIT: The reason I'm worrying about these being vector images, is that is what the publishing journal requires for submission.
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