Hi,
I need to embed tiffs and vectors inside a shape, say a square. As long
as I have images like tiffs I'm not able to use the transformation
tools like intersect and the others. How can I do that?
Then, if I put my images within another square with a mask, my images
disappear.
I need to cut it all in my shape and then do something like the expand
button in order to have a resulting illustration limited by the shape
size, not by its content dimensions.
Thanks,
Marco

The Pathfinder Transform tools like "Intersect" or "Minus Front" will
not work on placed bitmapped objects...they only work on vector objects
created in Illustrator. You'll have to manually retrace the TIFF image
in Illustrator to use this command. If the TIFF image is simple and
clean enough, you can do this conversion using "Live Trace" to save you
the time and effort.

Marco wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to embed tiffs and vectors inside a shape, say a square. As long
> as I have images like tiffs I'm not able to use the transformation
> tools like intersect and the others. How can I do that?
> Then, if I put my images within another square with a mask, my images
> disappear.
> I need to cut it all in my shape and then do something like the expand
> button in order to have a resulting illustration limited by the shape
> size, not by its content dimensions.
> Thanks,
> Marco