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[ranchonmars]

The new version of Illustrator lets you do multiple art boards in a single file, which is a dream for doing my buttons. I rapidly set up a template and began copying things over, tweaked, tweaked some more, etc. etc. etc., until I had a 20-board template (enough for 160 buttons per file), a 5-board template, and one full 20-board button file and a

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[thisdaydreamer]

What a pain in the tukus! I hope you get it fixed soon and easily!

[ranchonmars]

Starting from scratch. Ohhhhhrrgharufhemvhromitujrbthunmbruthbpthsc,pirg

[trenn]

I feel your pain, there. When I upgraded my copy of Appleworks from v5 to v6, I discovered that somewhere in my standard template was something that caused the program to crash when I tried to close one of my existing buttons. Luckily, whatever-it-was was not in the TEXT, so I was able to build a new, honestly better template, and cut-and-paste the text from each one, in batches of five to ten, from the old into the new, without closing the empty pages, then quitting the program without saving to avoid the crash. I had to do this for three to four hundred old buttons, but at least it was mostly mindless, except where I had to tweak the line spacing and such for my slightly different new template. It was a grind, but luckily it was a mindless grind I could do with the TV in the background to amuse me

[ranchonmars]

I can't imagine doing it one file = one button. Doing it 9 to a file was tricky enough! Being able to do multiple art boards is a godsend. I've been thinking of getting a laptop during the Christmas sales, in no small part so I don't have to lug my desktop to SheVaCon, and I can tell I won't be able to scale down (to save money) when I do--I'll need one that's at least as strong as my desktop.