Auto Save plugin for Illustrator

[Rockers]

Just had a look at Astute Graphics website and came across their new Autosaviour plugin for Adobe Illustrator. Just what I always wanted. As far as I remember someone else asked here before for autosave functions for Illustrator.
http://www.astutegraphics.com/software/autosaviour/

[jvanick]

as a person that sometimes forgets to save at the end of the day, and then windows update reboots my damn PC, this is awesome.

installing it and setting it up right now.

[Gilligan]

There is a setting in group policy to turn off the auto reboots... I always have to dig or google it, but I do it on all my machines.

Nice find though, my wife is terrible for not saving, EVER!

[jvanick]

I'm getting ready to switch our 'art' computers over to Mac... 

I'm sick of Windows and Microsuck products.

My personal Macbook Pro is awesome, faster, reboots far less, and has a unix commandline.
Oh, and Timemachine is awesome.

[blue moon]

we've been using this for few months now, it works great!
trying to remember, but I think you might have to save the design at least one time for it to start autosaving (at least for us when we open a template and it's called Untitled1 it wants us to save first).

pierre

[Gilligan]

Doesn't look like it can enumerate.  I'd like to see that as an option... save 5 versions or whatever.

[Rockers]

we've been using this for few months now, it works great!
trying to remember, but I think you might have to save the design at least one time for it to start autosaving (at least for us when we open a template and it's called Untitled1 it wants us to save first).

pierre

Once you open a document the auto saviour window pops up and you can set your preferences. Either it saves automatically after you have done your first change to your artwork, in that case you can set a certain time frame for it wait, or you can set it to just remind you to save the artwork. It as well keeps an original copy of the art with a different suffix in case you have made a bad mistake and you need to start all over again.
What other plug ins from Astute do you use? I`m trying to convince my wife to get a few of them as she does most of the art in our shop but she got so used to working with the basic Illustrator tools that she thinks she does not need any of those.

[cclaud3]

we've been using this for few months now, it works great!
trying to remember, but I think you might have to save the design at least one time for it to start autosaving (at least for us when we open a template and it's called Untitled1 it wants us to save first).

pierre

Once you open a document the auto saviour window pops up and you can set your preferences. Either it saves automatically after you have done your first change to your artwork, in that case you can set a certain time frame for it wait, or you can set it to just remind you to save the artwork. It as well keeps an original copy of the art with a different suffix in case you have made a bad mistake and you need to start all over again.
What other plug ins from Astute do you use? I`m trying to convince my wife to get a few of them as she does most of the art in our shop but she got so used to working with the basic Illustrator tools that she thinks she does not need any of those.

I use the phantasm set, specifically the halftone effect. I use accurip for film output but the plugin is perfect for converting artwork for customer proofs so they can see how it will look like. It has a ton of options to control how you want to set the pattern.

[Sbrem]

I like the look of it, and will get it for my full time artist. I developed the habit of hitting command-S every few strokes a long time ago, after losing a few hours worth of work more than once... and that Phantasm one for the halftone effect looks like it could save some time...

Steve

[Full-SpectrumSeparator]

Phantasm is also great for giving the photoshop-style color tone-curve and other adjustment controls over vector art, the vector halftone option is awesome, but it has lots of amazing features besides that, as well as the other plugins from Astute they are top-notch.     A lot of the other newer plugins they have look pretty useful as well.   When I was at a larger shop with 5 other artists back in 2010 I made the decision to purchase Phantasm and it was a great investment,  being a Mac/Adobe based art department, Phantasm helped bring some of the more useful tone-curve and color-adjustment controls into Illustrator that you normally have to bounce to photoshop for.    CorelDraw has some of these tools for vector already, but the Phantasm plugin along with Illustrator alone can make for a workflow that you wouldn't even need photoshop...   In my opinion with Photoshop/Illustrator or CorelDraw you can do whatever you want,  but with just Illustrator I would absolutely want the Phantasm plugin to give it the adjustment capabilities that it normally lacks compared to photoshop.       PS and Illy plus Phantasm and you've got quite the arsenal.    The vector-halftone feature is the real unique aspect of Phantasm but also the curve and other adjustment controls as well, you just can't do that stuff within Illustrator by default, and linking to photoshop can be tricky and make the workflow more complex than it needs to be.     Overall, Astute and Phantasm - highly recommended.