Idiots guide to Adobe Illustrator 10

[Battou]

I need one, Could some one tell me how to use this stupid friggen program?

The things I need the most are

How to crop accurately, how to resize accurately and how to import transparencies in a useable form

The rest I can play with and figure out I think.

 

[The Phototron]

http://northlite.50megs.com/illus/resize.htm

That is a good guide for resizing.

 

[Battou]

http://northlite.50megs.com/illus/resize.htm

That is a good guide for resizing.

Yes, I have seen that one and have it bookmarked, but I have grown very accustomed to having the ability to tell a program exactly what dimentions I want. Say I want my 1700 px image knocked down to 800 px I go into resise options and input 800px wide and the saved file is exactly 800 px wide. However with Illustrator I have to guess with scale and even then I usually end up with some stupid number of pixels wide in the saved file.

I assume there has to be a way to deturmine exact size of an image prior to export.