You can position the guides to determine how the artwork will scale. Next, double-click on the Symbol (either on the artboard or in the Symbols panel), and you’ll see two horizontal guides and two vertical guides. The symbol must be defined as a Movie Clip (Figure 1). In the Symbol Options dialog box, check Enable Guides for 9-slice scaling. To use 9-slice scaling, you must first define a symbol (F8).
Hopefully this changes in a future version of Illustrator. 9-slice scaling (unfortunately) has no use at all in the world of print. If you haven’t figured it out by now, 9-slice scaling is useful only when you’re creating SWF files from Illustrator or when you’re moving art from Illustrator into Flash. Since it’s an effect applied in the Flash Player, you won’t be able to preview the result of a 9-slice scale unless you’re viewing your art in the Flash Player.9-slice scaling is useful only when applied to symbols that will be viewed with the Flash Player (as SWF).(Think of it as a run-time effect.) This certain way of scaling is only applied in the Flash Player - and this point is significant for two reasons: Basically, you can “program” a Movie Clip symbol to scale in a certain way when that symbol is displayed with the Flash Player.
The generic description of 9-slice scaling is that it’s a way to intelligently scale objects.ĩ-slice scaling is an attribute found in the Flash Player.
The feature is a bit misleading on several points, so I want to clarify exactly what 9-slice scaling is, and what it isn’t. One of the new features in Illustrator CS3 is called 9-slice scaling.
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