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rodemm

2004-02-12, 9:36 pm

Hi,

I'd like to plot/draw a sinusoid (a waveform) in illustrator. But I do not know how to do this.
Does anyone know how I can plot the sinusoid?

Much thanks in advance,

Roderik

Paul Asente

2004-02-13, 4:28 am

In article <rodemm.11jpcm@mail.forum4designers.com>,
rodemm <rodemm.11jpcm@mail.forum4designers.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to plot/draw a sinusoid (a waveform) in illustrator. But I do
> not know how to do this.
> Does anyone know how I can plot the sinusoid?
>
> Much thanks in advance,

Does it have to really be a sinusoid, or just look like one?

If it only has to look like one, applying the zigzag effect to a
straight line with round corners looks pretty good.

If it has to really be one, then you can use the graph tool. You'll
probably want to find some way to output the coordinates you want from
some other program, and then import them as graph data.

-- paul asente
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Toby Thain

2004-02-14, 6:28 am

rodemm <rodemm.11jpcm@mail.forum4designers.com> wrote in message news:<rodemm.11jpcm@mail.forum4designers.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to plot/draw a sinusoid (a waveform) in illustrator. But I do
> not know how to do this.
> Does anyone know how I can plot the sinusoid?

Here is a PostScript program, openable in Illustrator, which plots a
sine function very accurately:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/sine-1.0.tar.gz

Toby

>
> Much thanks in advance,
>
> Roderik
>
>
> rodemm
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