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that's a very pretty heart Sam. Are you talking about the black rectangle? I think that is just being added by the Save for Web function, and does not really exist in the image.

Thanks, Jon. It's for the yet-to-be-determined girl that will be my valentine this year. The rectangle doesn't exist in the image, but its borders are leaving an impression on the image. I'll post the jpeg.....

Tell us more about your plans for Valentines Day, Sam. It's interesting the way your girl is 'yet-to-be-determined' and here you are, still toiling away at her gift. She's a lucky girl, Sam, whoever she might end up being.

I feel the identity of the girl is irrelevant. My slaving over this hokey piece-of-art indicates a strict commitment to an ideal, that being true-love. This is the true meaning of Valentine's Day....

haha... well said sam. I love it.

I think it's the version of Illustrator, V10, that I'm working in that is causing this problem. Dammit.

hmm. can you post the file in illustrator format instead of as a doc? I tried opening it in AI, but it seems to be pretty sure that it's a word file.

It was a word file....I replaced it with the .ai
Thanks.

Hmm. Well, I don't think it's actually cutting off the image -- on my copy of illustrator it's just creating a bounding box around the heart that's as tight as possible. If you want it to be larger, I'd suggest creating a larger white box under the heart. Then that'll be the biggest thing in the scene, and illustrator will draw the bounding box around that.

But my prefered way of dealing with this is usually just to save the ai, then open it in photoshop (or just drag it straight into photoshop).

you guys all DID pay for your copies of these programs right?