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2 Do one of the following:
Choose Duplicate Brush from the Brushes palette menu.
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Drag the selection to the New Brush button in the Brushes palette.
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To delete a brush from the Brushes palette:
1 In the Brushes palette, select the brush to delete. To select multiple brushes, Ctrl-click
(Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) each brush to delete. To select a range of brushes,
Shift-click to define the range.
2 Do one of the following:
Choose Delete Brush from the Brushes palette menu.
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Click the Delete Brush button in the Brushes palette.
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Drag the selection to the Delete Brush button in the Brushes palette.
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Creating brushes
You can create each of the four types of brushes in the Brushes palette. All brushes must
be made up of simple open and closed path vectors. Brushes cannot have gradients,
blends, other brush strokes, mesh objects, bitmap images, graphs, placed files, or masks.
Art brushes and pattern brushes cannot include type. However, to achieve a brush
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stroke effect with type, create an outline of the type and then create a brush with the
outline. (See "Modifying letterforms as graphic objects" on page
Creating a calligraphic brush
You can change the angle, roundness, and diameter of strokes painted with calligraphic
brushes.
To create a calligraphic brush:
1 Click the New Brush button in the Brushes palette, or choose New Brush from the
palette menu. Select New Calligraphic Brush and click OK.
2 In the Name text box, enter a name for the brush (up to 30 characters).
3 Specify values for the angle, roundness, and diameter of the brush (the preview in the
dialog box reflects your settings):
To set the ellipse angle of rotation, drag the arrowhead in the preview, or enter a value
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in the Angle text box.
To set the roundness, drag a black dot in the preview away from or toward the center,
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or enter a value in the Roundness text box. The higher the value, the greater the
roundness.
To set the diameter, use the Diameter slider, or enter a value in the Diameter text box.
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4 From each pop-up menu, choose the way in which you want to control variations in the
angle, roundness, and diameter:
Choose Fixed to use the value in the associated text box. For example, when the
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Diameter value is 20, Fixed always uses 20 for the brush diameter.
Choose Random to use a random value within a specified range. When you choose
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Random, you also need to enter a value in the Variation text box, or use the Variation
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