I often have 2 to 4 documents open at the same time, text, images, vector, raster, etc. Part of one of the rasterized images in an Illustrator-editable PDF contains a logo I need to cut out (normally, if I was working in an older photoshop or other application, I would just use a rectangular or oval shaped tool to select or crop it out, then directly drag or CTL-X / CTL-V it over into my target document). Once in the windows clipboard, or somehow selected, I want to drag it over, or (in Windows) CTL-V it over into another document (a PDF which is Illustrator editable).
Obviously, I'm missing something because I can't even figure out how to get Illustrator to just crop the selected area down to my "crop settings" area and not show the rest of the artboard. Apparently, CROP is a completely and radically DIFFERENT concept inside Adobe Illlustrator CS3, relative to the rest of the entire world, and all other programs I've ever used, in which case you select the area with a tool (or crop it and hit enter) and then just copy and paste or drag it over to your target doc.
I've looked at several cropping tutorials for CS3, so I know how to set and edit crop areas in Illustrator, and it looks like the extra long and winding way of acheiving my end result. That is, it seems I have to just crop the raster parts inside Illustrator, then export to a PNG, GIF, or some other format, then reopen that exported crop as yet another open document and then FINALLY to copy/paste that PNG over into my target document. To me, that is absolutelly inefficient. If I'm going to be constantly having to actually export and then reopen and then copy/paste, that's like 10 or 15 extra clicks for perhaps 50 operations in a day, which adds alot of wasted time and inefficiency to my process.
PLEASE HELP.
Desperately frustrated,
~k
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