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Slice up an image

BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
edited April 18, 2008 in Finishing School
Howdy All-

Okay this one is a little off the beaten path, but figured I am stumped and the other graphics guru I know is stumped. Here is what I am trying to do

I have a plan view of a building in Illustrator (I can move it to anything in CS3)
I want to easily slice the plan view into four sections (with overlap) The idea being is that one has an overview, then can click on a quadrant and "zoom" in by changing the image.
I want to be able to output the four files easily, so that as the image is updated I can quickly, easily, and repeatably output the images.

So I looked at using Clipping Masks, that will work but it requires I create each image . I looked at doing it in Firefox, it does not support the overlap.

Any ideas:dunno :scratch
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    dandilldandill Registered Users Posts: 102 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2008
    Would Zoomify (which Photoshop supports) be an alternative?
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2008
    15524779-Ti.gif

    You don't really want to slice your images for this. Zoomify is your best bet.
    If you have any problems w/ the script (you shouldn't, it's ina nice package already set up) or need to change the deliverables, let me know. I'll be happy to help w/ the code part.
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2008
    Unfortunately while Zoomify is cool it does not do quite what I need. Since these images will be in a separate stand alone (non web based) application each one will be on its own control panel/window.

    Right now what I am doing and it is a little cumbersome is outputting to PDF from Illustrator. Then taking the PDF into Acrobat Pro and duplicating the page. Then use the crop tool to slice up each page. Then do a save as PNG. Not the most easy thing to do... I looked at automating it in Acrobat but the Crop part has me a little stumped.
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    pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2008
    Have you looked at the slice, knife and scissor tools in Illustrator?

    I haven't really used those meself, but it sound a bit like slice is what you were looking for.
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2008
    Yup, I looked at those not the tools I am looking for, but thanks.
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    Are you able to send the native art? I have no interest in the plans, but I'd at least be able to tell you definitively if I can help or not.

    Shoot me a PM if your interested.
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    i_worship_the_Kingi_worship_the_King Registered Users Posts: 548 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    I'm not exactly clear on what you're saying you want to do...

    If I understand you correctly I would feed your image into flash, and have a smaller version loaded up at first. On rollover or click I would change the position and alpha of the larger version, and if really froggy make it draggable.

    Plus the flash file is self contained. Load from flash via AS2.0 and export for 'local files access only' and you can put it on almost any device, including PDA's and almost any operating system known to man. To change the picture you just put a new pic in the same place with the same name (or have an actionscript prompt).

    Possibilites are endless...


    However I've never seen this zoomify thing - it's now in my 'to be tested' bin. Looks SWEET. clap.gif
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    The reason is that I have to embed the image into another application
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    BradfordBenn wrote:
    The reason is that I have to embed the image into another application
    Waht's the application?
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
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