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I have not used this in Illustrator, but still use Streamline occasionally on my old computer. I keep it around to run some of the old programs you can't get for OSX, and to run my old scanners. When I comvert scanned pen and ink drawings, Streamline will make large black areas and then add white shapes over them rather than draw black lines. I don't like this, but have not figured out how to stop it. I don't know if the version within Illustrator is more sophisticated. Carie >Dear Bruce, > >I am a little behind with this thread, so I am not sure if anyone >mentioned this aspect of Illustrator CS. It has a live trace option >which lets you bring your raster art into Illustrator and turns it >into vector art. I have not played around with it yet, but it seems >like a souped up Streamline software that is now bundled with the >Illustrator CS program. By the way, has anyone out there worked with >it and pen and ink? This could be an interesting way to go with your >pen and ink illustrations. You can essentially convert all your >lines to vector shapes and use the various brushes (or create your >own) and pen widths to add your new lines and changes. Of course, >you could always leave your files as raster art and just stroke over >them in Illustrator to create your revisions. > >Lots of possibilities to explore! > >Good luck. > >Take care, >Wendy > > >Wendy Beth Jackelow, MFA, CMI > >Medical & Scientific Illustration > > >266 Pelton Avenue > >Staten Island, NY 10310 > >Tel (718) 273-0002 > >Fax (718) 273-0002 > ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] > ><http://members.aol.com/wbjackelow>http://members.aol.com/wbjackelow > > >=