[Tinsman]

I need to create a halftone dot gradient pattern in Illustrator as a logo element. I need it to remain vector art, not rasterized. Anyone know how?

[scadboy]

Well, you could create the haftone in photoshop, save it as a tiff, place it in an illustrator file and trace it.

yes?

michael

[Aric]

you dont need to trace it in illustrator. bitmap your gradient in photoshop, save it as a tiff and when you bring it into AI you can assign it a color, whatever was a white background should be transparent and make a clipping path to hide what you don't want to see.

[bluedog]

Originally posted by Aric:
you dont need to trace it in illustrator. bitmap your gradient in photoshop, save it as a tiff and when you bring it into AI you can assign it a color, whatever was a white background should be transparent and make a clipping path to hide what you don't want to see.

That may work, but they were hoping to keep the information for the screen as a vector artwork. Placing the bitmap won't help in that regard.

Great question by the way. I wonder if there isn't a plugin made by a 3rd party to create a line-screen type artwork. I don't recall seeing any, sorry.

[Aric]

i guess you can use the tracing feature in Freehand, or break out the old copy of Adobe Streamline and then use it to trace the halftone bitmap.