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Page 1 Using Help About online Help Adobe Systems, Inc. provides complete documentation in the Adobe PDF Help system. The Help system includes information on all the tools, commands, and features for both Windows and Mac OS. The PDF format is designed for easy navigation online, and support for third-party screen readers compatible with Windows.
Page 2 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Help Using Help Contents Index Back To ﬁnd a topic using the Find command: 1 Choose Edit > Find. 2 Enter a word or a phrase in the text box, and click OK. Acrobat will search the document, starting from the current page, and display the ﬁrst occurrence of the word or phrase you are searching for.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Adobe Illustrator Help Contents Using Help Contents Index Back Contents Looking at the Work Area 4 Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator 25 Drawing 47 Working with Objects 91 Transforming and Distorting Shapes 113 Applying Color 152 Producing Consistent Color 174...
Page 4: Looking At The Work Area
Preferences > General (Mac OS X), select Use Precise Cursors, and click OK. Using palettes Adobe Illustrator includes a number of palettes to help you monitor and modify your work. By default, these palettes appear stacked together in several groups. You can also dock palettes so that you can move them together.
Page 5 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back To show or hide a palette: Do one of the following: Choose Window > (window name). A check mark appears before a window that is • currently open.
Page 6 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back Toolbox overview (1 of 5) The selection tool The direct-selection The group- The magic wand selects entire tool (A) selects selection tool tool (Y) selects objects. points or path...
Page 7 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back The path-type tool The vertical type The vertical area- The vertical path- changes paths to tool creates vertical type tool changes type tool changes type paths, and lets...
Page 8 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back The polygon tool The star tool draws The ﬂare tool The paintbrush draws regular, multi- stars creates lens-ﬂare or tool (B) draws sided shapes. solar-ﬂare-like freehand and calli- effects.
Page 9 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back The reshape tool The warp tool The twirl tool The pucker tool smooths or changes (Shift+R) molds creates swirling deﬂates an object. a path while objects with the distortions within an retaining the path’s...
Page 10 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back Toolbox overview (4 of 5) The symbol sizer The symbol spinner The symbol stainer The symbol tool resizes symbol tool rotates symbol tool colorizes screener tool instances.
Page 11 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back The pie graph tool The radar graph The mesh tool (U) The gradient creates a circle graph tool uses a circle to creates and edits tool (G)
Page 12 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back The knife tool cuts The hand tool (H) The page tool The zoom tool (Z) objects and paths. moves the Illustrator adjusts the page grid increases and...
Page 13 Using context menus In addition to the menus that appear at the top of your screen, Adobe Illustrator contains a number of context-sensitive menus that relate to the document or the selection. You can use context menus as a quick way to choose commonly used commands.
Page 14 To switch to the hand tool when using another tool, hold down the spacebar. Viewing artwork as paths Adobe Illustrator sets the view so that all artwork is previewed in color. You can also set the view so that your artwork is displayed only as paths with all paint attributes hidden.
Page 15 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back To view the artwork in color or as path outlines: Choose a viewing option: Choose View > Preview to display the artwork as close as possible to how it will be •...
Page 16 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back To zoom out: Do one of the following: Select the zoom tool while holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS). The • pointer becomes a magnifying glass with a minus sign in its center. Click the center of the area you want to reduce.
Page 17 Adobe Illustrator Help Looking at the Work Area Using Help Contents Index Back To magnify or reduce the view using the Navigator palette: Do one of the following: Click the zoom in or zoom out button at the bottom of the Navigator palette.
Page 18 Plug-ins Preferences command to tell Illustrator about the new location of the plug-ins. You can also use plug-ins from Adobe Photoshop versions 3.0 to 5.5. In addition, you can use any commercial plug-in designed for use with Photoshop or Illustrator.
Page 19 Developing plug-in modules for Adobe Illustrator The open architecture of the Adobe Illustrator program allows developers outside of Adobe to create features that are accessible from within Adobe Illustrator. If you are inter- ested in creating plug-in modules compatible with Adobe Illustrator, see the Adobe Systems U.S.
Page 20 In Windows 2000 and XP it is in the Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 10 folder. In Mac OS, the preferences ﬁle is called Adobe Illustrator 10.0 Prefs. In Mac OS 9.x, it is • located in the System Folder\Preferences\Adobe Illustrator 10.0 folder. In Mac OS X, it is located in the Mac OS X\Users\Home\Library\Preferences\Adobe Illustrator 10 folder.
Page 21 Using the Illustrator product section of the Adobe Web site The Illustrator product section of the Adobe Web site provides a central source for regis- tered Illustrator users to access the latest Web content for Illustrator. Here you’ll ﬁnd the...
Page 22 Downloadables command in the Help menu. To use Adobe Online: 1 In Illustrator, choose Help > Adobe Online, or click the icon at the top of the toolbox. Adobe Online icon Note: You must have an Internet connection to access Adobe Online. Adobe Online will launch your browser using your default Internet conﬁguration.
Page 23 2 Select a registration option and click Continue; then follow the prompts to register. To open other sites within the Adobe Web site: Choose Help > Adobe Links, and choose a link topic from the menu. The associated Web page opens.
Page 24 See the ReadMe and ReadMe First! ﬁles installed with the program for information that • became available after this guide went to press. Explore the extensive customer support information on Adobe’s World Wide Web site • (www.adobe.com). To access Adobe’s Web site from Illustrator, choose Help > Adobe Online or click the icon at the top of the toolbox.
Page 25: Setting Up Artwork In Illustrator
ﬁlters in Illustrator will only work with bitmap images. Vector graphics Drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator create vector graphics, made of lines and curves deﬁned by mathematical objects called vectors. Vectors describe graphics according to their geometric characteristics. For example, a bicycle tire in a vector graphic is made up of a mathematical deﬁnition of a circle drawn with a certain radius, set at a...
Page 26 Back Bitmap images Paint and image-editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, generate bitmap images, also called raster images. The images use a grid (also known as a bitmap or raster) of small squares, known as pixels, to represent graphics. Each pixel in a bitmap image has a speciﬁc location and color value assigned to it.
Page 27 About the work area In Adobe Illustrator, the work area occupies the entire space within the Illustrator window and includes more than just the printable page containing your artwork. The printable and non-printable areas are represented by a series of solid and dotted lines between the outermost edge of the window and the printable area of the page.
Page 28 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back Nonimageable area The nonimageable area is between the two sets of dotted lines representing any nonprintable margin of the page. Edge of the page The page edge is indicated by the outermost set of dotted lines.
Page 29 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back To show or hide the artboard: To show the artboard, choose View > Show Artboard; to hide the artboard, choose View > Hide Artboard. To change the size of the artboard: 1 Choose File >...
Page 30 1. (The ﬁrst page is always page 1; there is no way to change the page 1 designation in Adobe Illustrator.) These page numbers appear on-screen for your reference only; they do not print. The numbers enable you to print all of the pages in the ﬁle or specify particular pages to print.
Page 31 3 Choose Select > All. Drag the artwork to the new position within the printable page boundaries. About imported artwork Placing artwork from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, into Adobe Illustrator is easily performed using various Adobe Illustrator commands. Using Help...
Page 32 Illustrator can import many common graphic ﬁle formats, including EPS, CorelDRAW ™ FreeHand , GIF, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, SVG, DXF, Adobe PDF, and PostScript Level 1. In addition to ™ these common graphic ﬁle formats, Illustrator can use artwork in any ﬁle format supported by an Adobe Photoshop-compatible ﬁle format plug-in ﬁlter, including Kodak...
Page 33 ﬁle. Note: Adobe Illustrator does not color-manage imported grayscale images. If you import a grayscale image that had a color proﬁle in Adobe Photoshop, for example, the proﬁle is discarded when the image is imported into Illustrator.
Page 34 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back To open a ﬁle created by another application: 1 Choose File > Open. 2 Locate and select the ﬁle you want to open. If you don’t see the name of the ﬁle you want, the ﬁle is stored in a format that Illustrator can’t read.
Page 35 By default, the Link option is selected in the Place dialog box. If you deselect the Link option, the artwork is embedded in the Adobe Illustrator ﬁle, resulting in a larger Illustrator ﬁle. The Links palette lets you identify, select, monitor, and update objects in the Illustrator artwork that are linked to external ﬁles.
Page 36 To place PDF or EPS artwork into an Adobe Illustrator ﬁle: 1 Open the Adobe Illustrator ﬁle into which you want to place the artwork. 2 Choose File > Place, select the ﬁle you want to place, and click Place.
Page 37 If a placed ﬁle with the Link option selected was not saved with a preview image in the application that created it, it will not be visible in Adobe Illustrator when it is placed. Instead, an outlined box containing two diagonal lines appears and deﬁnes the artwork’s dimensions.
Page 38 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back Manually to leave linked images unchanged when the original ﬁles are modiﬁed. • You can use the Links palette to identify linked images whose originals have been modiﬁed and to update these images.
Page 39 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back Choose Go to Link from the Links palette menu. • The link is displayed, and the linked image is selected. To update a link with the most recent data from the linked ﬁle: 1 Select one or more links in the Links palette.
Page 40 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back File Dimensions places the image without scaling. The image may ﬁt within the • bounding box or overlap it. Bounds resizes the image to ﬁt in the bounding box; in most cases the image will be •...
Page 41 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back Editing artwork contained in linked ﬁles When you make changes to a linked image using the application that created it, the changes are applied to the Illustrator ﬁle when the link is updated. (See “Specifying how to...
Page 42 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back Different WebDAV servers have different authentication requirements. Some servers require you to enter a user name and password for every transaction; other servers require authentication only the ﬁrst time you check out a managed ﬁle. When the Authentication dialog box appears, enter your user name and password, and click OK.
Page 43 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back To update or revert a local ﬁle to the version on the server: 1 Open your local copy of the ﬁle. 2 Do one of the following: If the ﬁle is checked out, choose File >...
Page 44 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back When you upload a local ﬁle to a managed server, you must also upload any linked ﬁles that it references. If you do not save the links to the same server, others who open the ﬁle will not have access to the links.
Page 45 Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Choose a server from the pop-up menu; then locate the directory to which you want to save the ﬁle. 4 Type in a ﬁle name in the Name text box, and choose a format from the Format pop-up menu.
Page 46 Metadata, or ﬁle information, is descriptive information that can be searched and processed by a computer. Use it to provide information about the contents of a document and to preserve information about a document that will be opened in other Adobe applications.
Page 47 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Drawing About paths A path is made up of one or more straight or curved segments. The beginning and end of each segment is marked by anchor points, which work like pins holding wire in place.
Page 48 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back A corner point can connect any two straight or curved segments, while a smooth point always connects two curved segments. A corner point can connect both straight segments and curved segments.
Page 49 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 3 To continue the existing freeform path, make sure the path is selected, and then position the pencil tip on an endpoint of the path and drag. To draw a closed path with the pencil tool: 1 Select the pencil tool.
Page 50 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Continue smoothing until the stroke or path is the desired smoothness. Erasing the path with the erase tool The erase tool lets you remove a portion of an existing path or stroke. You can use the erase tool on paths (including brushed paths), but not on text or meshes.
Page 51 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Drawing straight segments with the pen tool The simplest path you can draw with the pen tool is a straight line, made by clicking the pen tool to create two anchor points. By continuing to click, you create a path made of straight line segments connected by corner points.
Page 52 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back A smooth point always has two direction lines which move together as a single, straight unit. When you drag the direction point of either direction line on a smooth point, both direction lines move simultaneously, maintaining a continuous curve at that anchor point.
Page 53 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Drag to set the slope of the curve segment you’re creating. In general, extend the direction line about one third of the distance to the next anchor point you plan to draw.
Page 54 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To leave the path open, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) anywhere • away from all objects, or choose Select > Deselect, or select a different tool in the toolbox. Mixing curves, corners, and straight segments as you draw You can freely alter point types and direction lines as you draw a path.
Page 55 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Reposition the pen tool where you want the curved segment to end, drag to complete the curve, and release the mouse button. Drawing a curved segment 3 Position the pen tool over the selected endpoint. A convert-anchor-point icon appears next to the pen tool when it is positioned correctly.
Page 56 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Reposition the pen tool, drag to create a curve with a second smooth point, and then press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you drag the direction point to set the slope of the next curve.
Page 57 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To add or delete an anchor point: 1 Using the direct-selection tool , select the paths to which you want to add or delete anchor points. 2 Select the pen tool , add-anchor-point tool , or delete-anchor-point tool . All of these tools share the same location in the toolbox;...
Page 58 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To convert between smooth points and corner points using the convert-anchor- point tool: 1 Using the direct-selection tool, select the path you want to modify. To switch to the convert-anchor-point tool while the pen tool is selected, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS).
Page 59 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To convert a smooth point to a corner point with independent direction lines, drag • either direction point. Converting a smooth point to a corner point To temporarily switch from the convert-anchor-point tool to the last used selection tool, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS).
Page 60 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Drag a direction point. If you’re adjusting a smooth point’s direction lines, both • direction lines revolve around the anchor point. Shift-drag to constrain the direction line angle to multiples of 45 degrees.
Page 61 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Simplifying paths The Path Simplify command removes extra anchor points from a path without changing the shape of the path. Original (left) and simpliﬁed (right) path To simplify a path: 1 Select the path.
Page 62 Drag a marquee through the coincident anchor points to select them (left), and choose the Join command (right). Drawing shapes You can create many objects in Adobe Illustrator by starting with basic shapes. The tools in Illustrator let you easily create rectangles, ellipses, polygons, spirals, and stars. Drawing rectangles and ellipses...
Page 63 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back When a rectangle tool or the ellipse tool is selected, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option • (Mac OS) to draw rectangles and ellipses by dragging from the center of the rectangle or ellipse outward.
Page 64 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 4 In the Height text box, enter the height you want the shape to be, and click OK. To create a square or circle, enter a value in the Width text box and then click the word Height;...
Page 65 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To draw a star by dragging: 1 Select the star tool . 2 Position the pointer at the center of the star you want to create, and drag until the star is the desired size.
Page 66 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To create a ﬂare using default settings: 1 Select the ﬂare tool 2 Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and click where you want the ﬂare to appear. To create a ﬂare using the Flare Options dialog box: 1 Select the ﬂare tool, and click where you want the ﬂare to appear.
Page 67 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 4 If you want the ﬂare to contain rays, select Rays and specify the number of rays, the longest ray (as a percentage of the average ray), and the fuzziness (0 is crisp and 100 is fuzzy) of the rays.
Page 68 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Press C to switch between an open and closed arc. • Press F to ﬂip the arc, keeping the origin point constant. • Press Up Arrow or Down Arrow to increase or decrease the arc’s angle.
Page 69 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Drawing grids Use the grid tools to quickly draw rectangular or polar grids. Specify the grid size and the number of dividers, and then drag to create the grid anywhere on the artboard. The rectangular grid tool creates rectangular grids of a speciﬁed size with a speciﬁed number...
Page 70 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Select Use Outside Rectangle As A Frame to replace the top, bottom, left, and right • segments with a separate rectangular object. Select Fill Grid to ﬁll the grid with the current ﬁll color (otherwise, the ﬁll is set to none).
Page 71 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Working with symbols A symbol is an art object that you store in the Symbols palette and reuse in a document. For example, if you create a symbol from a ﬂower, you can then add instances of that symbol multiple times to your artwork without actually adding the complex art multiple times.
Page 72 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To duplicate a symbol in the Symbols palette: In the Symbols palette, do one of the following: Drag a symbol to the New Symbol button. • Select a symbol, and choose Duplicate Symbol from the Symbols palette menu.
Page 73 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To select all unused symbols in the Symbols palette: Choose Select All Unused in the Symbols palette menu. Modifying and redeﬁning symbols and symbol instances You can move, scale, rotate, shear (or skew), or reﬂect a symbol instance using commands in the Object menu or in the Transform or Align palettes.
Page 74 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Symbolism tools affect only the symbol or symbols selected in the Symbols palette. For example, if you create a mixed symbol instance set that represents a meadow with grass and ﬂowers, you can change the orientation of just the grass by selecting the grass symbol in the Symbols palette and then using the symbol spinner tool.
Page 75 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 3 For Intensity, enter a value to specify the rate of change (higher values equal faster changes), or select Use Pressure Pen to use the input from a tablet or pen instead of the Intensity value.
Page 76 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To delete symbol instances from a set: 1 Select the set from which you want to delete instances. 2 Select the symbol sprayer tool, and hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you click or drag where you want to remove instances.
Page 77 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Random modiﬁes the scale randomly in the area under the cursor. • Average gradually smooths out the sizes of the symbol instances. • To change the size of symbol instances: Select the symbol sizer tool and do one of the following: Click or drag in the set where you want to increase the size of the symbol instances.
Page 78 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Select the symbol stainer tool and do one of the following: Click or drag over the symbol instances you want to stain with the colorization color. • The amount of colorization gradually increases, and the symbol instance’s color gradually changes to the colorization color.
Page 79 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Hold down Shift as you click or drag to keep the amount of style constant, while • gradually changing the symbol instance style to the selected style. Note: It is very important to perform steps 1 and 2 in the speciﬁed order. If you select a style while a tool other than the symbolism tools is selected, the style will apply immedi- ately to the entire selected symbol instance set.
Page 80 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Double-click the paintbrush tool , set preferences, and click OK: In the Fidelity text box, enter the number of pixels (from 0.5 to 20) for the number of • pixels the stroke can stray from the path to produce smooth curves, or use the slider.
Page 81 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Modifying brushed paths After you have applied a brush to a path, you can modify the attributes of the path in several ways. To convert brushes in artwork to outlined paths: 1 Select the object or objects to convert.
Page 82 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Do one of the following: Choose Duplicate Brush from the Brushes palette menu. • Drag the selection to the New Brush button in the Brushes palette. • To delete a brush from the Brushes palette: 1 In the Brushes palette, select the brush to delete.
Page 83 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back slider, to specify the range by which the brush characteristic can vary. For each stroke, Random uses any value between that in the text box for the brush characteristic plus or minus the Variation value.
Page 84 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Minimum value for the lightest tablet pressure and the Maximum value for the heaviest pressure. The heavier the stroke, the larger the objects. Note: To keep the same range of values between the two sliders, Shift-drag the sliders.
Page 85 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Creating a pattern brush To create a pattern brush, you can use pattern swatches in the Swatches palette or artwork from an illustration to deﬁne the tiles in the brush. When using swatches to deﬁne a pattern brush, you can use preloaded pattern swatches, or create your own Pattern swatches.
Page 86 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back Add Space to Fit adds blank space between each pattern tile to apply the pattern • proportionally to the path. Approximate Path (for rectangular paths only) ﬁts tiles to the closest approximate path •...
Page 87 Adobe Illustrator Help Drawing Using Help Contents Index Back To choose a colorization method: 1 With the options dialog box for the selected brush type open, choose an option from the Method pop-up menu: None displays colors as they appear in the brush in the Brushes palette. Choose None to •...
Page 88 Drag the modiﬁed brush into the Brushes palette. Using the brush libraries You can import brushes from other Adobe Illustrator ﬁles into a palette associated with the current ﬁle using the Brush Libraries command. These libraries are stored in the Brushes folder, located in the Presets folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder.
Page 89 Contents Index Back To create a Brush Library: 1 Create an Adobe Illustrator ﬁle containing the brushes you want in the Brush Library. 2 Save the ﬁle in the Brushes folder. 3 Restart Adobe Illustrator. Tips for using brushes When you work with brushes, keep the following points in mind: You can often use Scatter brushes and Pattern brushes to achieve the same effect.
Page 90 You can also use a dedicated tracing program such as Adobe Streamline ™ To trace a bitmap image shape: 1 Open the ﬁle that contains the bitmap image you want to trace.
Page 91: Working With Objects
Working with Objects Correcting mistakes You can use the Undo command to correct mistakes you make while using the Adobe Illustrator program. You can even undo an operation after you choose the Save command (but not if you closed and then reopened the ﬁle). If an operation cannot be undone, the Undo command is dimmed.
Page 92 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Deﬁning ruler units The large tick marks on the rulers indicate the unit of measure (such as inches), and the small tick marks indicate increments of the unit of measure (such as 1/8 inch). When you magnify or reduce your view, the increments of the unit of measure reﬂect the change in...
Page 93 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back When mixing picas and points, you can enter values as XpY, where X and Y are the • number of picas and points (for example, 12p6 for 12 picas, 6 points).
Page 94 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Do one of the following: Click the two points to measure the distance between them. • Click the ﬁrst point and drag to the second point. Shift-drag to constrain the tool to •...
Page 95 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back To convert an object into a guide object: 1 Select an object, a group of objects, or any combination of objects and groups. 2 Choose View > Guides > Make Guides.
Page 96 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Using Smart Guides Smart Guides are temporary, “snap to” guides that help you create, align, edit, and transform objects relative to other objects. You can also use Smart Guides when rotating, scaling, and shearing objects.
Page 97 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back How Smart Guides work When Smart Guides are turned on and you move the cursor over your artwork, the cursor looks for objects, page boundaries, and intersections of construction guides to snap to that are within the tolerance range set in Smart Guides Preferences.
Page 98 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back The direct-lasso tool lets you select individual anchor points or segments on a path • by dragging around parts of a path. All direction lines then appear on that part of the path for adjusting.
Page 99 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) to subtract from the selection. • Using the bounding box When you select one or more objects with the selection tool, you see a bounding box around them.
Page 100 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Selecting ﬁlled objects The Use Area Select option in the General Preferences dialog box determines whether you can select a ﬁlled object in Preview view by clicking anywhere within the area or whether you must click a path segment or anchor point.
Page 101 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back To deselect all objects in a ﬁle: Do one of the following: Using a selection tool, click or drag at least 2 pixels away from any object. • Choose Select > Deselect.
Page 102 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Select Show Stroke Options from the Magic Wand palette menu; then select the stroke • options you want to use and specify tolerance values in pixels. Select Show Transparency Options from the Magic Wand palette menu; then select the •...
Page 103 2 Choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. Note: To copy a bitmap version of the selected object onto the Clipboard for pasting into Adobe Photoshop, choose Edit > Copy. (See “Using the Clipboard to copy artwork” on page 104.)
Page 104 PDF or AICB (a format similar to EPS). Artwork copied to the Clipboard is pasted as PICT in most other applications. However, some applications take the PDF version (such as Adobe InDesign) or the AICB version (such as Adobe Photoshop). PDF preserves transparency, whereas AICB breaks selections into many smaller opaque objects that give an overall look of transparency.
Page 105 In Windows, the other application must be OLE-compliant. To copy an OLE object that contains .psd data, use the OLE Clipboard. (See your Windows documentation.) Dragging vector artwork from Adobe Illustrator or from other applications that use the Illustrator Clipboard converts the artwork to a bitmap image (also called raster format).
Page 106 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and drag the selection to the Photoshop document. When you release the mouse button, the selection becomes a Photoshop path. By default, selected objects are copied as bitmap images to the active layer.
Page 107 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Do one of the following: To move the objects by the speciﬁed amounts, click OK. • To move the objects randomly, but no more than the speciﬁed amounts, select the •...
Page 108 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Rotating the axes is useful if your artwork contains elements that are rotated to the same angle, such as a logo and text displayed on a 20-degree angle. Instead of rotating each element you add to the logo, you can simply rotate the axes by 20 degrees.
Page 109 Drawing with the pencil or auto trace tool. • Stacking objects The Adobe Illustrator program stacks successively drawn objects, beginning with the ﬁrst object drawn. How objects are stacked determines how they are displayed when they overlap. In addition, stacking is important when you make masks. (See “Working with...
Page 110 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back The cut object is pasted into position. If no object was selected in step 3, the object is pasted on top of or in back of the stack. If you paste more than one object, all pasted objects appear in front or in back of the selected artwork.
Page 111 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back The direct-selection tool and direct-lasso tool let you select a single path or object that is part of one group or several groups. If you have groups of objects within other groups, you can select the next group in the grouping hierarchy by using the group-selection tool.
Page 112 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Objects Using Help Contents Index Back Locking and hiding objects You can use the Lock and Hide commands to isolate parts of your artwork on which you do not want to work. Once an object is locked or hidden, it cannot be selected or modiﬁed in any way.
Page 113 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Transforming and Distorting Shapes Transforming selected objects You can transform selected objects—that is, change their size, shape, and orientation by selecting one or more objects and then applying various transformation actions on them.
Page 114 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Select the transform tool you want to use (such as rotate or scale), and click the artboard to set the new point. Object scaled from center (left) and from new point of origin (right) Rotating Rotating an object turns it around a ﬁxed point that you designate.
Page 115 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To change the point of origin, select the rotate tool, and click where you want the new • point of origin. 3 Enter the rotation angle, in degrees, in the Angle text box. Enter a negative angle to rotate the object clockwise;...
Page 116 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To scale with the bounding box: 1 With the selection tool, select the object or objects to scale. 2 Drag a handle until the selection is the desired size.
Page 117 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Select Scale Strokes & Effects to scale the line weights of all stroked paths (as speciﬁed • in the Stroke palette), and scale any size-related effects, along with the objects.
Page 118 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Position the pointer at another point along the invisible axis, and do one of the following: Click to set a point across which to reﬂect the object. When you click, the selected •...
Page 119 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Shearing Shearing an object slants, or skews, the object along the axis you specify. Copying while shearing is useful for creating cast shadows. To shear with the free transform tool: 1 With the selection tool, select the object or objects to shear.
Page 120 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Specify the axis along which the object is to be sheared. You can shear an object along a horizontal, a vertical, or an angled axis. If you choose an angled axis, enter the angle of the axis that you want, in degrees, relative to the x axis.
Page 121 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To repeat the previous transformation: 1 Make sure the object on which you want to repeat the transformation is selected. 2 Do one of the following: Choose Object > Transform > Transform Again.
Page 122 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To transform both the object and pattern, choose Transform Both. • Note: To ensure that values entered in the Info and Transform palettes include stroke weight and effects, choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator >...
Page 123 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Once you apply an envelope, you can continue to edit the original objects. At any time you can also edit, delete, or expand an envelope. Creating envelopes You can create an envelope from three sources: the topmost selected object, a preset warp shape, or a mesh.
Page 124 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back intact while you reset the inner nodes; deselect it to alter the entire shape. Specify Rows and Columns, and click OK. Use the direct-selection tool, add anchor point tool, or delete anchor point tool to •...
Page 125 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 7 Click OK. Note: If you expand the envelope with a Distort option selected, the respective property is expanded separately. Modifying shapes with liquify tools Illustrator provides a variety of liquify tools for changing an object’s shape. Using these tools alters the original object’s shape.
Page 126 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back For Twirl Rate, enter a value between –180˚ to 180˚ to specify the rate at which the twirl • is applied. The closer to an end range, the faster the object twirls. To twirl slowly, specify a rate close to 0˚.
Page 127 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Drag one or more of the handles in the dialog box to distort the selection. 4 Click OK. Rounding corners The Round Corners command converts the corner points of an object to smooth curves.
Page 128 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To bloat or pucker an object: 1 Do one of the following: To apply the command as a ﬁlter, select the object to pucker or bloat. Then choose •...
Page 129 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To scribble and tweak an object: 1 Do one of the following: To apply the command as a ﬁlter, select the object to scribble or tweak. Then choose •...
Page 130 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Adding drop shadows The Drop Shadow command creates a three-dimensional shadow on any selected object. You can offset the drop shadow any distance from the object along the x or y axis, as well as vary the opacity, blending mode, blur, color, and darkness of the drop shadow.
Page 131 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To apply an inner or outer glow: 1 Select an object or group in the artwork, or target an item in the Layers palette. For more information on targeting, see “Changing the appearance of artwork using the Layers...
Page 132 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back The Add Arrowheads command lets you add an arrowhead or arrow tail to any selected line. If applied as a ﬁlter, the resulting arrows can be edited like any other object, but they do not move with the line to which they are attached.
Page 133 Back Blending shapes The Adobe Illustrator blend tool and the Make Blend command let you create a series of intermediate objects and colors between two or more selected objects. You can blend between two open paths (such as two different lines), between two closed paths (such as a circle and a square), between gradients, or between other blends.
Page 134 You can change this setting by selecting the blend and deselecting Knockout Group in the Transparency palette. The Adobe Illustrator program automatically calculates the number of steps in a blend, • unless you select Specify Steps in the Blend Options dialog box.
Page 135 (for example, from the rightmost edge of one object to the rightmost edge of the next object). Smooth Color has the Adobe Illustrator program autocalculate the number of steps for • the blends. If objects are ﬁlled or stroked with different colors, the steps are calculated to provide the optimum number of steps for a smooth color transition.
Page 136 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back contain identical colors, or if they contain gradients or patterns, the number of steps is based on the longest distance between the bounding box edges of the two objects.
Page 137 You can move, delete, transform, edit anchor points and Bezier curves, or change colors on blends, using any of the editing tools available in the Adobe Illustrator program. When you edit a blend path, the changes take place interactively while you work.
Page 138 You can select from hatch settings supplied with the Adobe Illustrator program by using the Hatch Effects dialog box. You can also create your own hatched designs by drawing or selecting an object, naming it as a hatch in the New Hatch dialog box, and then applying it to artwork by using the Hatch Effects dialog box.
Page 139 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Symmetric varies the effect proportionately and evenly, for example, if applying • hatches to round or cylindrical shapes. Random applies the effect irregularly. • Fade speciﬁes whether the hatch fades across the object. Choose the fade properties •...
Page 140 139. 2 Choose Filter > Pen & Ink > Library Save As. 3 In the dialog box, name the new ﬁle, save it in the Illustrator 10.0 \ Plug-Ins \ Illustrator Filters \ Pen and Ink folder, and click OK.
Page 141 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Using the Pathﬁnder palette Use the Pathﬁnder palette to combine paths into new objects and shapes. In the Pathﬁnder palette, you can access ﬁlters for combining paths and you can access shape mode commands, which create and modify compound shapes.
Page 142 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back PostScript-compliant applications. You cannot view individual components of compound paths in the Layers palette, or give the components their own appearance attributes (such as distortion or effects). Simple paths are the most basic building block shape in Illustrator. They consist of one •...
Page 143 Index Back The shape layers and layer clipping paths (vector masks) in Adobe Photoshop are types of compound shapes. You can import shape layers and layer clipping paths into Illustrator as compound shapes and continue to manipulate them. In addition, you can export compound shapes to Photoshop.
Page 144 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back When you create a compound shape, it takes on the paint and transparency attributes of the topmost component in Add, Intersect, or Exclude mode. Subsequently, you can change the paint, style, or transparency attributes of the compound shape. Illustrator facil- itates this process by automatically targeting the whole compound shape when you select any part of it, unless you explicitly target a component in the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back To ﬂatten a compound shape into a path or compound path: 1 With the selection tool, select the compound shape to expand. 2 Do one of the following: Click Expand in the Pathﬁnder palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back When you create a non-zero winding compound path, you can specify whether overlapping paths appear with holes or ﬁlled by clicking a Reverse Path Direction button in the Attributes palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back Using effects to combine shapes nondestructively You can use Pathﬁnder effects to combine all the paths in a group, layer, or sublayer. When you combine paths using effects, each path uses the same intersection method, such as Add, Subtract, or Divide.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back After you combine paths using the Pathﬁnder effects, you can select individual paths and move them, or change the appearance attributes. You can also change the stacking order of the paths in the Layers palette to alter the shape and color of the resulting art.
Page 149 Working with clipping masks Clipping masks crop part of the artwork so that only a portion of the artwork appears through the shape or shapes you create. In Adobe Illustrator, you mask objects by using the Clipping Mask > Make command.
Page 150 Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Choose Window > Layers. 3 From the Layers palette menu, choose Locate Object. The name of a clipping path appears in the palette with a solid underline. Clipping groups appear with dotted-line separators.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Transforming and Distorting Shapes Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Choose Edit > Cut. 3 With the direct-selection tool, select an object within the masked artwork. 4 Do one of the following: Choose either Edit > Paste in Front or Edit > Paste in Back. The object is pasted in front •...
Page 152 Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back Applying Color Color modes and models A color mode in Illustrator determines the color model used to display and print Illustrator ﬁles. Illustrator bases its color modes on established models for describing and repro- ducing color.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back RGB colors are called additive colors because you create white by adding R, G, and B together—that is, all light is reﬂected back to the eye. Additive colors are used for lighting, television, and computer monitors.
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Grayscale also lets you convert color artwork to high-quality black-and-white artwork. In this case, Adobe Illustrator discards all color information in the original artwork; the gray levels (shades) of the converted objects represent the luminosity of the original objects.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back Spot colors A spot color is a special premixed ink that is used instead of, or in addition to, CMYK process inks, and that requires its own printing plate on a printing press. Use spot color when few colors are speciﬁed and color accuracy is critical.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back separations in an application other than Illustrator. To prevent problems in these cases, you should ﬁrst convert the spot colors to process colors. Comparing global and non-global process colors Illustrator lets you specify a process color as either global or non global. Global process colors remain linked to a swatch in the Swatches palette, so that if you modify the swatch of a global process color, all objects using that color are updated.
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Hold down the Shift key, and click on the color bar to cycle through the Grayscale, RGB, Web Safe RGB, HSB, or CMYK sliders. Double-click the Fill or Stroke box in the toolbox to display the Adobe Color Picker. •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back Click the Gradient button to change the currently selected ﬁll to the last-selected • gradient in the Gradient palette. Click the None button to remove the object’s ﬁll or stroke.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back Applying color by dragging and dropping An easy way to paint an object is to drag a color directly from the Fill box or Stroke box in the toolbox, the Color palette, or the Gradient palette and drop the color onto the object, or to drag a swatch from the Swatches palette and drop it on an object.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back Round Join for stroked lines with rounded corners. • Bevel Join for stroked lines with squared corners. • Dashed Line for a dashed line; then specify a dash sequence by entering the lengths of •...
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New colors, gradients, or patterns that you create and store in the Swatches palette are associated only with the current ﬁle. Each new Adobe Illustrator ﬁle can have a different set of swatches stored in its Swatches palette. Swatches stored in the RGB Startup ﬁle or CMYK Startup ﬁle are loaded into all new Illustrator documents, depending on which color...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Choose from the sorting options in the pop-up menu: Sort by Name sorts all swatches alphabetically by name. • Sort by Kind sorts all swatches in ascending order by swatch type: colors, gradients, and •...
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Swatch Options dialog box. Any swatch can be named in Adobe Illustrator; for example, you can change the name of a CMYK process color, and it still prints and separates with each of its CMYK values intact.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back The Tint slider in the Color palette is used to modify a global color’s intensity. The tint range is from 0% to 100%; the lower the number, the lighter the tint will be. The Tint slider only appears in the Color palette when a global color is selected.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back The tint is saved with the same name as the base color, but with the tint percentage added to the name. For example, if you saved a color named “Sky Blue” at 51 percent, the swatch name would be “Sky Blue 51%.”...
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Using the Swatch Libraries command The Swatch Libraries command lets you import colors, gradients, and patterns from other Adobe Illustrator ﬁles into a palette. It also lets you import entire color libraries from other color systems, such as the PANTONE Process Color System.
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EURO, PANTONE Process Uncoated, PANTONE Pastel Coated, PANTONE Pastel Uncoated, and PANTONE Metallic. Important: Illustrator 10.0 includes new PANTONE color libraries. If you work with an Illustrator 9.0 or earlier ﬁle that uses PANTONE colors, the older version of the PANTONE color is used.
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In this way, you can have easy access to the patterns, gradients, brushes, graph designs, colors, and color libraries that you use most frequently. By adding these elements to one or both of the startup ﬁles, you make them available in every new Adobe Illustrator ﬁle you create.
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Contents Index Back Save the new ﬁle as Adobe Illustrator Startup _CMYK or Adobe Illustrator Startup_RGB, and place it inside the Plug-ins folder. Important: Make sure that you select the correct type of startup ﬁle (that is, CMYK or RGB) and that you save it with the exact name for its color mode.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back To specify colors using numeric values: Do one of the following: In CMYK color mode, specify each component value as a percentage of cyan, magenta, • yellow, and black. In RGB color mode (this is the mode your monitor uses), specify component values from •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back To copy attributes using the eyedropper tool: 1 Select the object with the attributes you want to change. 2 Select the eyedropper tool . 3 Click the object that has the attributes you want to sample with the eyedropper tool.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back black; and Color 2 is 40% cyan, 20% magenta, 30% yellow, and 10% black; the resulting hard color is 40% cyan, 66% magenta, 40% yellow, and 10% black. The Soft Mix effect makes the underlying colors visible through the overlapping •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Applying Color Using Help Contents Index Back 6 Click Preview to preview the effect and click OK. To convert an object to a different color mode using a Convert ﬁlter: 1 Select the object you want to convert.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back Producing Consistent Color Why colors sometimes don’t match No device in a publishing system is capable of reproducing the full range of colors viewable to the human eye. Each device operates within a speciﬁc color space which can produce a certain range, or gamut, of colors.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back Color management engine Different companies have developed various ways to manage color. To provide you with a choice, a color management system lets you choose a color management engine that represents the approach you want to use. Sometimes called the color management module (CMM), the color management engine is the part of the CMS that does the work of reading and translating colors between different color spaces.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back Creating a viewing environment for color management Your work environment inﬂuences how you see color on your monitor and on printed output. For best results, control the colors and light in your work environment by doing...
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ColorSync control panel. This color management conﬁguration is not recognized by Windows systems, or by earlier versions of ColorSync. Emulate Acrobat 4 Emulates the color workﬂow used by Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and earlier. Emulate Photoshop 4 Emulates the color workﬂow used by Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and earlier.
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For example, if Adobe RGB (1998) is the current RGB working space, each new RGB document that you create will use colors within the Adobe RGB (1998) gamut. Working spaces also deﬁne the destination gamut of documents converted to the RGB or CMYK color model.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back The following table provides a summary of the policy decisions you may be prompted to consider when opening or importing mismatched color data: Mismatch situation Policy options that may be available Opening non-color- Use working space for editing but not saving;...
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Color management settings can be shared with other users and with other applications that use the Color Settings dialog box, such as Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and later. It’s important to save your custom conﬁgurations if you want to reuse and share them with other users who use the same color management workﬂows;...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back Monitor RGB Sets the RGB working space to the current color proﬁle of your monitor. Use this setting if other applications in your workﬂow do not support color management. If a color management conﬁguration that speciﬁes Monitor RGB is shared with another user...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back To customize color management policies: 1 In the Color Settings dialog box, under Color Management Policies, choose one of the following to set the default color management policy for each color model: Off if you do not want to color-manage imported or opened color data.
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The following standard engine options are available. If you have installed additional color management engines, they may also appear as options. Adobe (ACE) Uses the Adobe color management system and color engine. This is the default setting for most preset color conﬁgurations.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back Specifying a rendering intent Translating colors to a different color space usually involves an adjustment of the colors to accommodate the gamut of the destination color space. Different translation methods use different rules to determine how the source colors are adjusted;...
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“Creating an ICC monitor proﬁle” on page 188. Note: The soft-prooﬁng commands are not available when the Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0 setting is chosen in the Color Settings dialog box. To display a soft proof: 1 Choose View > Proof Setup, and choose the output display that you want to simulate: Choose Custom to soft-proof colors as displayed on a speciﬁc output device.
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The Assign Proﬁle command is recommended only for advanced users. Note: The Assign Proﬁle command is not available when the Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0 setting is chosen in the Color Settings dialog box.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Consistent Color Using Help Contents Index Back You can change the default behavior to embed or not to embed proﬁles as you save a document. Changing the default behavior, however, is recommended only for advanced users who are very familiar with color management.
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Note: Adobe Gamma can characterize, but not calibrate, monitors used with Windows NT. In addition, the ICC proﬁle you create with Adobe Gamma can be used as the system-level proﬁle in Windows NT. Its ability to calibrate settings in Windows 98 depends on the video card and video driver software.
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Brightness and contrast The overall level and range, respectively, of display intensity. These parameters work just as they do on a television. Adobe Gamma helps you set an optimum brightness and contrast range for calibration. Gamma The brightness of the midtone values. The values produced by a monitor from black to white are nonlinear—if you graph the values, they form a curve, not a straight...
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Adobe Gamma, you’ll set the white point to match your monitor’s current setting. Be sure to set the digital controls before you start Adobe Gamma. If you set them after you begin the calibration process in Adobe Gamma, you’ll need to begin the process again.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns About transparency In Illustrator, you can add transparency to your artwork in a variety of ways. You can vary the degree of transparency of an object, a group of objects, or a layer from 100% opacity (completely solid) to 0% opacity (completely transparent).
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“Printing and saving transparent artwork” on page 336. When you share ﬁles between Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, transparency is preserved. Opacity masks in Illustrator convert to layers masks in Photoshop, and vice versa. See “Opening Photoshop ﬁles in Illustrator” on page...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Use the Layers palette to target an object, group of objects, or layer when applying trans- parency effects. (See “Changing the appearance of artwork using the Layers palette” on page 223.) This is the only way to ensure that the effect is applied only to the artwork you...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back About opacity masks An opacity mask lets you partially hide artwork using the mask’s luminosity. Patterns or gradients contained in the mask are visible on the masked artwork.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back To unlink or relink a mask: Select the artwork and then do one of the following: Click the link symbol between the artwork thumbnail and the mask thumbnail in the •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back To invert all masks by default: Choose New Opacity Masks Are Inverted from the Transparency palette menu. About blending modes You can blend the colors between two superimposed objects by using the blending modes in the Transparency palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back If the blend color (light source) is lighter than 50% gray, the artwork is lightened, as if it were screened. This is useful for adding highlights to artwork. If the blend color is darker than 50% gray, the artwork is darkened, as if it were multiplied.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back them.The command also works on individual objects that have had blending modes other than Normal applied to overlapping strokes or ﬁlls. Group selected without Isolate Blending option applied (left) and with it applied (right).
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 3 In the Transparency palette, select Knockout Group to turn it on (check mark). To prevent objects from knocking out within a knockout group or layer: 1 Select the group using the selection tool, or target it in the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Select the group using the selection tool, or target it in the Layers palette. 3 In the Transparency palette, select Knockout Group. 4 Among the grouped objects, select the one that you want to reshape according to its opacity.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 3 To deﬁne the starting color of a gradient, click the left square below the gradient slider in the Gradient palette, and then do one of the following: Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) a color swatch in the Swatches palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Adjusting gradients with the gradient tool Once you have ﬁlled an object with a gradient, the gradient tool lets you modify the gradient by “repainting” the ﬁll along an imaginary line you drag. This tool lets you change the direction of a gradient, change the beginning point and endpoint of a gradient, and apply a gradient across multiple objects.
Page 203 Tips for creating mesh objects You can create a mesh object out of any path object, or any bitmap image (such as a photographic image imported from Adobe Photoshop). There are a few important guide- lines to keep in mind when creating mesh objects: You cannot create mesh objects from compound paths, text objects, or linked EPS ﬁles.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back To create a mesh object with the Create Mesh command: 1 Select a ﬁlled object. 2 Choose Object > Create Gradient Mesh. 3 Enter the number of horizontal rows of mesh lines to create on the object in the Rows text box.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Do one of the following: Drag the direction points on the direction lines to edit the mesh point as you would any • anchor point. For more information about editing anchor points, see “About direction...
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ﬁlls or no ﬁll for a pattern, or you can design a pattern from scratch with any of the tools in the Adobe Illustrator program. (However, you cannot use patterns, gradients, blends, brushstrokes, meshes, bitmap images, graphs, placed ﬁles, or masks in a pattern.) You can customize any pattern by resizing the pattern,...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Constructing simple patterns and deﬁning patterns To create a pattern, you create artwork that you want to use as a pattern tile and then drag it to the Swatches palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Enlarge your artwork view, and check for ﬂaws before deﬁning a pattern. • If you draw a bounding box around the artwork, make sure that the box is a rectangle, •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 8 Using the rectangle tool , follow one of two methods: For a ﬁll pattern, draw a bounding box from the center point of the upper left object to •...
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(reﬂected –135 degrees) corner tiles. To create symmetrical corner tiles from a side tile: 1 Choose File > Open, locate a brush pattern ﬁle, supplied with Adobe Illustrator, that you want to use, and click Open.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Select the tile and the bounding box. 5 Use the rotate tool to rotate the tile and its bounding box 180 degrees. Pasted tile (left) and tile rotated 180º (right) 6 Using the rotate tool, Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac OS) the lower left corner of the bounding box.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back 9 Edit the corner tile so that its artwork lines up vertically and horizontally with the tiles next to it. Select and delete any portions of the tile that you do not want in the corner and edit the remaining art to create the ﬁnal outer corner tile.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back Moving patterns Patterns begin tiling from the ruler origin and continue to tile in a left-to-right sequence, from bottom to top, until the object is ﬁlled. To adjust where all patterns in your artwork begin tiling, you can change the ﬁle’s ruler origin.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help Contents Index Back To select the Transform Pattern Tiles preferences option: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator > Preferences > Workgroup (Mac OS X).
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Using Layers About layers When creating complex artwork, it’s a challenge to keep track of all the items on your artboard. Small items get hidden under larger items, and selecting artwork becomes difﬁcult.
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You can add layers, nest sublayers within layers, and merge, ﬂatten, and delete layers. Adding layers Every new Adobe Illustrator document contains one layer. You can add layers using a variety of methods. To create a new layer above the selected layer: Do one of the following: Click the New Layer button in the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back To set layer options: 1 Do one of the following: To set options for an existing item in the Layers palette, double-click the item. Alter- • nately, select the item and choose Options for “Layer name” from the Layers palette menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back and triangle; one with a circle and square; and one with just a circle. This is useful for creating cumulative animation sequences. Items released to layers in a cumulative sequence.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Deleting items in the Layers palette Deleting a layer also deletes all artwork that is in the layer. For example, if you delete a layer that contains sublayers, groups, paths, and clipping sets, all those elements will be deleted along with the layer.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back 2 In the Layer Options dialog box, choose a color from the Color pop-up menu, or double- click the color sample to open the Color dialog box. After you have selected a color, click OK.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Selecting artwork in layers You can quickly select artwork on the artboard using the Layers palette. Keep in mind that there is a difference between selecting an item in the Layers palette and selecting artwork using the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Changing the stacking order of artwork using the Layers palette The stacking order of artwork on the artboard corresponds to the hierarchy of items in the Layers palette. Artwork in the top layer in the Layers palette is at the front of the stacking order, while artwork in the bottom layer in the Layers palette is at the back of the stacking order.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Pasting artwork between layers The Paste Remembers Layers option determines where artwork is pasted in the layer hierarchy. By default, Paste Remembers Layers is off, and artwork is pasted into the whichever layer is active in the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back indicates the item is targeted but has no appearance attributes. • indicates the item is not targeted but has appearance attributes. • indicates the item is targeted and has appearance attributes.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Double-click an item name in the Layers palette, or select an item and choose Options • for “Layer name” from the Layers palette menu. In the Layer Options dialog box, select or deselect Show, and click OK.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Layers Using Help Contents Index Back Creating clipping masks A clipping mask is an object or group of objects whose shape masks artwork below it so that only artwork within the shape is visible—in effect, clipping the artwork to the shape of the mask.
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35.) The eye icon is replaced by the template icon , and the layer is locked. Moving layers between Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop When you import or place a Photoshop ﬁle that has multiple layers, you can ﬂatten the layers into a single image or convert the layers to objects.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects About appearance attributes, styles, and effects Appearance attributes are properties that affect the look of an object without altering its underlying structure.
Page 229 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back Layers, groups, type, meshes, linked ﬁles, bitmap images, blends, envelopes, ﬂares, symbols, symbol sets, and graphs all function as containers in the Appearance palette. When you apply appearance attributes to a container, all artwork in the container takes on these additional attributes.
Page 230 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back Modifying and removing appearance attributes The Appearance palette makes it easy to modify appearance attributes. You can edit effects, copy attributes to items, duplicate attributes, and remove attributes.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back To apply all of the current appearance attributes to new objects, click the New Art • Maintains Appearance button in the Appearance palette, or deselect New Art Has Basic Appearance from the palette menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back When you apply a style to a group or layer, every object on the group or layer takes on the attributes of the style. For example, assume you have a style that consists of 50% opacity. If you apply the style to a layer, all objects in or added to that layer will appear 50% opaque.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette into the Styles palette or onto the • New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette. Dragging a thumbnail from the Appearance palette to the Styles palette.
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Style Libraries command. These libraries are stored in the Presets/Styles folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder. You cannot add, delete, or edit styles in a library; however, once you import a style, you can change its attributes using the Appearance palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back To create a Styles Library: 1 Create a ﬁle containing the styles you want in the Styles Library. Delete all unused Swatches, Brushes, Symbols, and Styles to reduce the library’s ﬁle size.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects Using Help Contents Index Back Target an item in the Layers palette. (See “Changing the appearance of artwork using • the Layers palette” on page 223.) Select a stroke or ﬁll in the Appearance palette. (See “Working with appearance...
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• using the Transparent option in the Rasterize ﬁlter, you create an alpha channel (as in the Adobe Photoshop application). The transparent background also provides superior anti-aliasing of the rasterized artwork than does using a clipping mask to mask the background.
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Once graphics are converted by either method, you can apply plug-in ﬁlters, such as those designed for Adobe Photoshop, to the image as you would with any placed image. However, you cannot apply vector tools and commands (such as the type tools and the Pathﬁnder commands) to modify the bitmap image.
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Using ﬁlters and ﬁlter effects Some commands in Adobe Illustrator let you apply a special look to bitmap images. For example, you can apply an impressionistic or mosaic look, apply lighting changes, distort images, and produce many other interesting visual results.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back Background Determines how transparent areas of the vector graphic are converted to pixels. Select White to ﬁll transparent areas with white pixels, or select Transparent to make the background transparent. If you select Transparent, you create an alpha channel (for all images except 1-bit images).
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Click OK to apply the ﬁlter. When a ﬁlter or ﬁlter effect takes some time to be applied, you see a progress dialog box that indicates the time remaining until the ﬁlter is applied.
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ﬁlter to a grayscale version of the image. Choosing a ﬁlter or ﬁlter effect Adobe Illustrator includes a variety of ﬁlters and ﬁlter effects for applying a special look to bitmap images. For information on using the ﬁlters, see “Using ﬁlters and ﬁlter effects”...
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Gaussian Blur Quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the bell-shaped curve that is generated when Adobe Photoshop applies a weighted average to the pixels. This ﬁlter adds low-frequency detail and can produce a hazy effect.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back Angled Strokes Repaints an image using diagonal strokes. The lighter areas of the image are painted in strokes going in one direction while the darker areas are painted in strokes going the opposite direction.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Enter a screen-angle value (the angle of the dot from the true horizontal) for one or more channels: For Grayscale images use only channel 1. • For RGB images, use channels 1, 2, and 3, which correspond to the red, green, and blue •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back Conté Crayon Replicates the texture of dense dark and pure white Conté crayons on an image. The Conté Crayon ﬁlter uses the foreground color for dark areas and the background color for light areas.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back Grain Adds texture to an image by simulating different kinds of grain—regular, soft, sprinkles, clumped, contrasty, enlarged, stippled, horizontal, vertical, and speckle. Mosaic Tiles Draws the image as if it had been made up of small chips or tiles and adds grout between the tiles.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back of tiles for the width. Choosing Height calculates the appropriate number of tiles to use for the height of the mosaic, based on the original number of tiles for the height.
Page 249 Adobe Illustrator Help Working with Bitmap Images Using Help Contents Index Back Rotation Variance sets the amount that each layer is rotated from the previous layer, • from 0 to 100%. Top Angle sets the angle of rotation for the top-most hatch layer, from –360 degrees to •...
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Using Type About using type in Illustrator No matter which language version you are using, Adobe Illustrator provides a wide range of multinational language features—from spell-checking and hyphenation support for numerous European languages to advanced typography features for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Entering horizontal or vertical type in a rectangle You can use the type or vertical type tool to deﬁne a text rectangle into which you enter type. This method is useful when you want to create one or more columns of text, such as for a brochure.
Page 252 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Click to select an edge or corner of the text rectangle, and drag to adjust the rectangle’s shape. Shift-drag to constrain the tool to multiples of 45 degrees (constraining makes it easier to retain the shape of a rectangle).
Page 253 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back To enter vertical type along a path: 1 Select the vertical type tool or the vertical-path-type tool . 2 If the multilingual options are not visible in the Character palette, choose Show Multi- lingual from the palette menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Double-click the I-beam. • Example of ﬂipping type along a path. The initial direction of type ﬂows in the order that points were added to the path. If you want your text to ﬂow from left-to-right without having to ﬂip the I-beam, construct your paths in that order.
Page 255 To hide visible characters, choose the command to remove the check mark. Using multiple master fonts Illustrator supports the Adobe multiple master font technology and provides special options for working with those fonts. Multiple master fonts are customizable Type 1 fonts whose typeface characteristics are described in terms of linear design axes such as weight, width, style, and optical size.
Page 256 Character or Paragraph palette to change only one attribute. In addition, some attributes can be changed using keyboard shortcuts. For a complete list of shortcuts, see the Adobe Illustrator Quick Reference Card.
Page 257 Character palette, or you can choose Type > Font and choose from the submenu. You do not see fonts in their respective faces in the palette or submenu, even when you have a utility that shows typefaces installed (such as Adobe Type Reunion ®...
Page 258 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back To choose a type size in the Character palette: 1 Do one of the following: Select any type container or type path using a selection tool. • Set an insertion point or select a range of text using the type tools.
Page 259 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Select a font name from the Fonts in Document list. Illustrator selects the next instance of that font in your ﬁle. 4 Click Find Next to ﬁnd the next instance of the font.
Page 260 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Press Enter, Return, or Tab. Note: You can specify leading before a paragraph with area type only. Specifying kerning and tracking Kerning controls the spacing between two characters. You can control kerning manually, or you can turn on the kerning built into a font by the font designer.
Page 261 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Spacing characters with auto-kerning To use a font’s kerning information to space characters, you can select the Auto-Kerning option in the Character palette. Many Roman fonts contain information about the spacing of character pairs.
Page 262 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Scaling type using a transformation tool affects the type’s horizontal scale as well as the type size, leading, indentation, and baseline shift. When type has been scaled using a transformation tool, you can revert it to its original horizontal scale by setting the horizontal scale to 100%.
Page 263 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Painting type You can paint type, the type container, or the type path. You may want to paint the container to create a background for your type, or paint the type path as a visual base for the type.
Page 264 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back To change type attributes: 1 Double-click the paint bucket or the eyedropper tool. 2 Select or deselect the attributes for the eyedropper to copy and the paint bucket to apply.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back To transform individual type containers in a series of linked type containers, use the • direct-selection tool to select the linked type containers you want to transform. Make sure the baselines appear, indicating that the type is selected within the containers.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Tate Chu Yoko rotates the selected block of text (1- or 2-byte characters) in the plane • opposite from the rest of the text. Vertical text in Standard direction compared to vertical text with Tate Chu Yoko option applied.
Page 267 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 4 To change the wari-chu type size (as a percentage of the original point size), enter a percentage in the Scale text box (below the Wari-Chu option). The default is 50%.
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Mac OS. Importing text ﬁles You can import text into Adobe Illustrator from a ﬁle that was created in another application. This allows you to format and spell-check your text in a word-processing application before you bring it into Illustrator. (For a list of supported text formats, “About imported artwork”...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back To export text: 1 Using a type tool, select the text to export. 2 Choose File > Export. 3 Select the desired ﬁle format in the Export File pop-up menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 4 When the new type container is in position, release the mouse button, and then Shift+Alt (Windows) or Shift+Option (Mac OS). You must release the mouse button before you release the keys.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Enter the number of columns you want in the Number (Columns) text box, and the number of rows you want in the Number (Rows) text box. You can either enter the number in the text boxes or use the buttons on the sides of the text boxes to increase or decrease the values.
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Back Greeking type below a speciﬁed font size Adobe Illustrator greeks—displays as a dimmed bar—type below a speciﬁed type size, as set in the Greeking Limit text box in the Type & Auto Tracing Preferences dialog box. Any type at or below the speciﬁed type size is replaced on-screen with non-letterforms that act as placeholders in the artwork.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Specifying paragraph indentation Indentation speciﬁes the amount of space between the ends of each line of type and the path that contains that type. You can indent from the left or the right side of the path, and you can choose additional indentation for the ﬁrst line of a paragraph.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back If you select Hang Punctuation on 2-byte text, punctuation hangs only when there is no room to adjust spacing and prevent hanging; otherwise, punctuation does not hang. You can ensure that punctuation always hangs by also deselecting the Punctuation Hangs Only If Space Unavailable option in the Paragraph palette menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back You can change monospaced text into proportionally spaced text with the following fonts: Type 1 CID fonts (Mac OS), which contain the proportional width data. • Japanese TrueType fonts shipped with KanjiTalk 7.5 and later (Mac OS).
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 5 To change the spacing between CJK characters and Roman characters, enter a spacing percentage, from 0% to 200%, in the CJK/Roman text box. Text with CJK/Roman setting of 0% compared to text with CJK/Roman setting of 200%.
Page 277 Text with Kinsoku Shori Soft set compared to text with Kinsoku Shori Hard set. Note: With the addition of single-byte characters, the Soft set is consistent with the set included in the Kinsoku Shori option of Adobe Illustrator 5.5J; the Hard set is consistent with the set of Adobe Illustrator 7.x.
Page 278 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back character is moved to the next line and characters on the original line are evenly spaced to ﬁll the width (or height) of the line. This option is selected by default.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back Using the Tab Ruler palette The Tab Ruler palette lets you quickly set left, right, center, and decimal-point tabs in horizontal type, and top, bottom, center, and decimal-point tabs in vertical type (up to 15 tab stops).
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Illustrator lets you ﬁt type across the full width of a type path in an object by using the Fit Headline command. The Fit Headline command was designed to work with Adobe Multiple Master fonts by adjusting the weight of the font and the tracking value when distributing type along a path.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Type Using Help Contents Index Back 5 Click OK. To set hyphenation options: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Hyphenation (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator > Preferences > Hyphenation (Mac OS X). 2 If desired, choose the language in which the hyphenation rules apply (to new text typed) from the Languages pop-up menu.
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To check the spelling in a ﬁle: 1 Choose Type > Check Spelling. The Check Spelling dialog box displays a list of words not found in the current Adobe Illustrator dictionary. 2 To list separately words that are misspelled in the same way but that are in different cases (such as Mispell and mispell), select the Case Sensitive option.
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• ligatures (that is, a text symbol that combines two or more letters into a single, special character). To change to ligatures, you must have the appropriate Adobe Expert font installed on your system. ff, ﬂ, fﬂ Ligatures changes any occurrence of the ff, ﬂ, or fﬂ letter combinations into •...
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Note: Alternative glyphs revert to standard characters when an Illustrator ﬁle is imported to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, or Adobe After Effects. To save alternative glyph information, save the Illustrator ﬁle in EPS format (be sure to select Include Document Fonts in the EPS Format dialog box), and then import it.
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If you’re responsible for production, you can use scripts within Illustrator, the Batch • command, or a Web production tool such as Adobe GoLive 6.0 to render the ﬁnal graphics. You can also use a dynamic imaging server such as Adobe AlterCast ™...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Creating Templates for Data-Driven Graphics Using Help Contents Index Back Using the Variables palette You use the Variables palette to work with variables and data sets. The type and name of each variable in the document are listed in the palette. If the variable is bound to an object, then the Objects column displays the name of the bound object as it appears in the Layers palette.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Creating Templates for Data-Driven Graphics Using Help Contents Index Back All objects Use the Visibility variable to make an object’s visibility dynamic. You can also make the visibility of groups and layers dynamic. Model A Model B...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Creating Templates for Data-Driven Graphics Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Click the Make Visibility Dynamic button in the Variables palette, or choose Make Visibility Dynamic from the Variables palette menu. The Visibility variable appears in the Variables palette.
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The Variables palette displays the names of dynamic objects as they appear in the Layers palette. If you save the template in SVG format for use with other Adobe products, these object names must conform to XML naming conventions. For example, XML names must begin with a letter, underscore, or colon, and cannot contain spaces.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Creating Templates for Data-Driven Graphics Using Help Contents Index Back Using data sets A data set is a collection of variables and associated data. When you create a data set, you capture a snapshot of the dynamic data that is currently displayed on the artboard.
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When you deﬁne dynamic data in an Illustrator document, you are creating a template for data-driven graphics. You can save the template in SVG format for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Altercast (available only in English) and Adobe GoLive 6.0.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Preparing Graphics for the Web About Web graphics When designing graphics for the Web, you must consider different issues than when designing graphics for print. Here are some things to keep in mind: Color Color is often a key aspect of artwork.
Page 293 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back To understand how Illustrator divides objects into pixels, open a ﬁle that contains vector objects, choose View > Pixel Preview, and magnify the artwork so that you can see its individual pixels.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back to create a slice that captures text and basic formatting characteristics from a text object. (See “Choosing a slice type and setting slice options” on page 294.) Use the slice tool, the Object >...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back HTML Text if you want to capture text and basic formatting characteristics from the text • object in Illustrator. To edit the text for HTML Text content slices, you must update the text in your artwork.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Choose a color that will appear in the slice area of the resulting Web page from the • Background pop-up menu. Keep in mind that the selected color will not be displayed in Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back To select a slice: Do one of the following: Select the slice select tool and click on a slice. Shift-click to select additional slices. • When working with overlapping slices, click the visible section of an underlying slice to select it.
Page 298 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back To duplicate a slice: Select a slice, and do one of the following: Choose Object > Slice > Duplicate Slice. • Choose Edit > Copy. To paste the slice into another ﬁle, open the destination ﬁle, and •...
Page 299 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Removing slices You can remove slices by deleting them or by releasing them from the corresponding artwork. To delete a slice: Do one of the following: Select the slice, and press Delete. If the slice was created using the Object > Slice >...
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4 Enter a relative or full URL in the URL text box, or choose from the list of available URLs. If you enter a full URL, be sure to include http:// (for example, enter http:// www.adobe.com, not www.adobe.com). You can verify the URL location by clicking the Browser button.
Page 301 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Working with SVG in Illustrator You can save artwork in SVG format using the Save command and the Save for Web command. (See “Saving artwork in an SVG format” on page 324 “Optimizing images”...
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Select a ﬁlter in the Apply SVG Filters dialog box, and click the Trash button. To modify Illustrator’s default SVG ﬁlters: Use a text editor to edit the Adobe SVG Filters.svg ﬁle in the Plug-ins folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder. You can modify existing ﬁlter deﬁnitions, delete ﬁlter deﬁnitions, and add new ﬁlter deﬁnitions.
Page 303 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back To add SVG interactivity features to your artwork, select an object using a selection tool, and then add the event and corresponding JavaScript to that object in the SVG Interac- tivity palette.
Page 304 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back onunload to trigger the action when the SVG document is removed from a window or • frame. onzoom to trigger the action when the zoom level is changed for the document.
Page 305 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Patterns are rasterized into small images the size of the pattern art and tiled to ﬁll • the art. Only rounded caps or joins are supported in SWF format. Beveled or square caps and •...
Page 306 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Previewing images Click a tab at the top of the image area to select a display option: Original to view the image with no optimization, Optimized to view the image with the current optimization settings applied, 2-Up to view two versions of the image side by side, or 4-Up to view four versions of the image side-by-side.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back The link icon appears on the linked slices, and the slice lines and icons are assigned a new color to help you identify the slices in the set.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Optimization options for GIF and PNG-8 formats GIF is the standard format for compressing images with ﬂat color and crisp detail, such as line art, logos, or illustrations with type. You can lower the size of GIF images by reducing the number of colors in the ﬁle.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Pattern applies a halftone-like square pattern to simulate any colors not in the color • table. Noise applies a random pattern similar to the Diffusion dither method, but without •...
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Optimized Select Optimized to create an enhanced JPEG with a slightly smaller ﬁle size. The Optimized JPEG format is recommended for maximum ﬁle compression; however, some older browsers do not support this feature.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Read Only Select Read Only to prohibit users from modifying the exported SWF ﬁle. Export As Select AI File to SWF File to export the artwork to a single frame. Select AI Layers to SWF Frames to export the artwork on each layer to a separate SWF frame, creating an animated SWF.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Font Location Choose Embed Fonts or Link Fonts from the Font Location menu. Embedding fonts increases ﬁle size but ensures that the fonts will always be available (for example, if you distribute the SVG ﬁle via email).
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Index Back 2 Name the settings, and choose a location where they will be saved. By default, named settings are saved in the Presets/Save for Web Settings/Optimize folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder. 3 Click OK. To edit a named set of optimization settings: 1 Choose the named set from the Settings pop-up menu.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back To set options for exporting CSS layers: 1 Click the Layers tab in the Save for Web dialog box. 2 Select Export As CSS Layers. 3 Choose a layer from the Layer pop-up menu, and set the following options as desired: Visible to create a visible CSS layer in the resulting HTML ﬁle.
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Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Using the Color Table palette menu Click the triangle in the right corner of the Color Table palette. Sorting the color table Choose a sorting command from the Color Table palette menu.
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Saving color tables Choose Save Color Table from the Color Table palette menu. By default, the color table ﬁle is given the extension .act (for Adobe Color Table). Loading color tables Choose Load Color Table from the Color Table palette menu. You can load a color table from an .act ﬁle or a GIF ﬁle (to load the ﬁle’s embedded color table).
Page 317 Include Comments Adds explanatory comments to the HTML code. Include GoLive Code Reformats code in the style used by Adobe GoLive. Select this option if you plan to reoptimize slices in GoLive. Generate CSS Generates a Cascading Style Sheet, rather than an HTML table.
Page 318 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Spacer Cells Speciﬁes when to add one row and one column of empty spacer cells around the generated table: Always, Never, or Auto (the recommended setting). Adding spacer cells is necessary with table layouts in which slice boundaries do not align, to prevent the table from breaking apart in some browsers.
Page 319 Adobe Illustrator Help Preparing Graphics for the Web Using Help Contents Index Back Copy Background Image When Saving Preserves a background image that has been speciﬁed in the Background preferences set. Put Images In Folder Speciﬁes a folder name where optimized images are saved (available only with documents containing multiple slices).
Page 320: Saving And Exporting
Adobe Illustrator Help Saving and Exporting Using Help Contents Index Back Saving and Exporting About saving and exporting artwork When you save or export artwork, Illustrator writes the artwork data to a ﬁle. The structure of the data depends on the ﬁle format that you select. There are four basic ﬁle formats—...
Page 321 320. Choose Illustrator (AI) as the ﬁle format. 2 In the Illustrator Native Format Options dialog box, select the Adobe Illustrator version with which you want your ﬁle to be compatible. Keep in mind that certain features, such as gradients, layers, and transparency, may not be supported by earlier versions of the Illustrator ﬁle format.
Page 322 320. Choose Illustrator EPS (EPS) as the ﬁle format. 2 In the EPS Format Options dialog box, select the Adobe Illustrator version with which you want your ﬁle to be compatible. Select Version 9.0 or later to preserve transparency, text, and spot colors in the artwork if the ﬁle is placed in another application (such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress).
Page 323 Select Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities if you want to reopen and edit the PDF ﬁle in Adobe Illustrator. Embed All Fonts Includes all fonts that are used in the artwork. This ensures that the original font is used for display and printing on computers that do not have the font installed.
Page 324 Adobe Illustrator Help Saving and Exporting Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Set the desired options in each panel of the dialog box: Average Downsampling Determines if the artwork is downsampled. Downsampling reduces the resolution of the image to the speciﬁed pixels per inch. If you plan to print the PDF ﬁle at high resolution, do not use downsampling.
Page 325 “Adding metadata to documents” on page 46.) Optimize for Adobe SVG Viewer Maintains the highest level of Illustrator data while still allowing the SVG ﬁle to be manually edited. Select this option to take advantage of faster rendering for features such as SVG ﬁlter effects.
Page 326 Adobe Illustrator Help Saving and Exporting Using Help Contents Index Back Exporting artwork in Photoshop format Exporting to the Photoshop ﬁle format retains layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, slices, image maps, and editable type when possible. This makes is easy to share artwork between Illustrator and Photoshop.
Page 327 Adobe Illustrator Help Saving and Exporting Using Help Contents Index Back Editable Text Exports horizontal and vertical point type in a top-level layer to editable Photoshop type if doing so does not compromise the appearance of the artwork. Note: Illustrator cannot export area type and type on a path to Photoshop as editable text.
Page 328 ﬁle sizes. About graphic ﬁle formats Adobe Illustrator can import and export many common ﬁle formats. Graphic ﬁle formats are distinguished by the way they represent graphic information. Graphic information can be represented as either vector drawings or bitmap images. Some graphic ﬁle formats contain only vector drawings or only bitmap images, but many can include both in the same ﬁle.
Page 329 3 PCX ﬁle in Illustrator, the palette is ignored and a standard VGA color palette is used instead. Portable Document Format (PDF) The PDF format is used by Adobe Acrobat, Adobe’s electronic publishing software for Mac OS, Windows, and UNIX. You can view PDF ﬁles using the Acrobat Reader software included on your Adobe Illustrator CD.
Page 330 PostScript printer, you can use the Print to File option (Windows) or the File option in the Destination pop-up menu (Mac OS) in the Print dialog box to create a PostScript ﬁle. Note: For best results, Adobe recommends that you create PostScript ﬁles with the Apple LaserWriter 8 or Adobe PostScript printer driver.
Page 331 Adobe Illustrator Help Saving and Exporting Using Help Contents Index Back Targa (TGA) format The TGA format is designed for use on systems that use the Truevision video board. If you are saving artwork in this format, you have the option of ®...
Page 332 336.) Printing artwork and composites You can choose from a set of standard printing options in Adobe Illustrator for any type of artwork you print. These printing options appear in the Print Setup > Properties dialog box (Windows) or Page Setup (Mac OS) dialog box. You can then print the artwork using the Print dialog box.
Page 333 2 Indicate which pages you want printed. 3 Choose from the following options in the Print dialog box (Windows) or choose Adobe Illustrator 10.0 from the pop-up menu (Mac OS) and set the advanced printing options: PostScript. If your printer driver and printer support PostScript Level 2 or •...
Page 334 By default, Adobe Illustrator prints all visible layers. To print an individual layer, “Making artwork nonprintable” on page 225. Important: Adobe Illustrator does not support PDF Writer format; if you attempt to print to PDF Writer you may experience delays or errors in printing. Using color management when printing When you print a color-managed RGB or CMYK document, you can specify additional color management options to keep color consistent in the printer output.
Page 335 Adobe Illustrator Help Printing Using Help Contents Index Back 3 For Intent, choose the rendering intent to use when converting colors to the desti- nation proﬁle space. For more information, see “Specifying a rendering intent” on page 184. Setting crop marks and trim marks Crop marks deﬁne where the artwork is trimmed after it is printed.
Page 336 Adobe Illustrator Help Printing Using Help Contents Index Back To specify Japanese crop marks: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac OS X). 2 Select Japanese Crop Marks, and then click OK.
Page 337 Adobe Illustrator prints fastest and best by using a default output resolution setting of 800 dots per inch (dpi). However, in some cases, you might want to decrease the output resolution—for example, if you draw a very long curved path that won’t print due to a...
Page 338 Adobe Illustrator Help Printing Using Help Contents Index Back Use shorter blends. The optimum length depends on the colors in your blend, but try to • keep blends shorter than 7.5 inches. (See “Calculating the maximum blend length based on the color change” on page 339.)
Page 339 Calculating the maximum blend length based on the color change Adobe Illustrator calculates the number of steps in a gradient based on the percentage of change between the colors in the gradient. The number of steps, in turn, determines the maximum length of the blend before banding occurs.
Page 340 Adobe Illustrator Help Printing Using Help Contents Index Back Number of Steps Maximum Blend Length Adobe Illustrator Points Inches Recommends 259.2 9.144 280.8 9.906 302.4 10.668 324.0 11.430 345.6 12.192 367.2 12.954 388.8 13.716 410.4 14.478 432.0 15.240 453.6 16.002 475.2...
Page 341 If you turn off the printer’s default screen in the Printing & Export panel of the Document Setup dialog box, Illustrator uses Adobe screens to enhance the output of gradients when printing to low-resolution printers (600 dpi and less) that support fewer than 256 gray levels.
Page 342 Before you can create an EPSF Riders ﬁle, you must move the EPSF Riders plug-in into the Plug-ins folder. The Make Riders ﬁlter creates an Adobe Illustrator EPSF Riders ﬁle. The EPSF Riders ﬁle contains PostScript code that, when added to an Adobe Illustrator ﬁle, overrides how a ﬁle prints.
Page 343 Riders’ error handler. 3 When you have selected the options you want, click Make. Important: Do not rename the EPSF Riders ﬁle. (The name Adobe Illustrator EPSF Riders is selected by default.) If you change the name, Illustrator ignores the ﬁle.
Page 344 2 Move the EPSF Riders ﬁle out of the Plug-ins folder. You can move it anywhere, but you may want to move it into the Illustrator folder. 3 Quit Adobe Illustrator, then restart the program, and resave all the ﬁles that contain embedded Riders information.
Page 345: Producing Color Separations
Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Producing Color Separations About separations To produce high-quality separations, it helps to be familiar with the basics of printing, including line screens, resolution, process colors, and spot colors. It is also recommended that you work closely with the print shop that will produce your separations, consulting its experts before beginning each job and during the process.
Page 346 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back 4 To change the on-screen appearance of the registration color from the default black, use the Color palette. Note: The color you specify will be used for representing registration-colored objects on the screen.
Page 347 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back You can also set overprinting features using the Overprint Fill or Overprint Stroke options in the Attributes palette, as described below. You can also use the Multiply blending mode in the Transparency palette (see “About blending modes”...
Page 348 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back If you use the Overprint option on a 100% black stroke or ﬁll, the black ink may not be opaque enough to prevent the underlying ink colors from showing through. To eliminate the show-through problem, use a four-color (rich) black instead of a 100% black.
Page 349 Spread: Object overlaps background. Choke: Background overlaps object. You can create both spreads and chokes in the Adobe Illustrator program. It is generally best to scale your graphic to its ﬁnal size before adding a trap. Once you create a trap for an object, the amount of trapping increases or decreases if you scale the object.
Page 350 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Trapping with tints When trapping two light-colored objects, the trap line may show through the darker of the two colors, resulting in an unsightly dark border. For example, if you trap a light yellow object into a light blue object, a bright green border is visible where the trap is created.
Page 351 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back In some cases, the top and bottom objects may have similar color densities so that one color is not obviously darker than the other. In this case, the Trap command determines the trap based on slight differences in color;...
Page 352 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back The Tint Reduction value reduces the values of the lighter color being trapped; the darker color values remain at 100%. The Tint Reduction value also affects the values of custom colors.
Page 353 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back method reduces the darker object by stroking its boundaries with the lighter background color. 3 Choose Window > Show Stroke. Object stroked with 1-point stroke of background color A. Stroke creates choke trap B. Fill creates knockout C. Area of trap D. Area of knockout 4 In the Stroke palette, in the Weight text box enter a stroke width of between 0.6 and...
Page 354 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back 8 Select Overprint Stroke for the top line. Copy of stroke used for spread trap A. Top stroke creates spread trap B. Bottom stroke creates knockout C. Area of knockout D.
Page 355 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back more than one set of trim marks, draw them in the artwork or use the Trim Marks ﬁlter. “Setting crop marks and trim marks” on page 335. Specifying the printing bounding box in the separation The printing bounding box is represented as a gray rectangle surrounding the artwork in the Separation Setup preview window.
Page 356 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Specifying printer’s marks When you prepare artwork for printing, a number of marks are needed for the printer to register the artwork elements precisely and verify correct color. These marks include elements such as crop marks, registration marks, star targets, calibration bars, and labels.
Page 357 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Preparing a ﬁle for separation includes specifying which printer settings and halftone screen ruling to use and whether the separation should be a positive or negative image. In addition, you can specify a bleed around the artwork.
Page 358 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Specifying which colors to create separations for In the Separation Setup dialog box, each separation is labeled with the color name that Illustrator assigned it. If an icon of a printer appears next to the color name, Illustrator creates a separation for the color.
Page 359 Specifying the page size and orientation Adobe Illustrator normally uses the page size default in the PPD ﬁle for the selected printer. However, you can change the page size to any of the sizes listed in the PPD ﬁle as well as specify portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) orientation.
Page 360 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Specify another separation option, or click OK. Specifying a custom page size You can specify a custom page size using the Custom Page Size option in the Page Size pop-up menu.
Page 361 If your imagesetter can accommodate the longest side of your imageable area, you can conserve a considerable amount of ﬁlm or paper by using Transverse in conjunction with Offset. Compare the following examples of an image printed by Adobe Illustrator with Transverse on and off.
Page 362 Adobe Illustrator Help Producing Color Separations Using Help Contents Index Back Overprinting black in the separation It can be cheaper and easier to have the print shop overprint black on the press. You can choose whether to overprint black when printing or saving selected separations.
Page 363 4 Choose a method for selecting the Separate output option: On Windows, choose Separate from the Output pop-up menu. • On Mac OS, choose Adobe Illustrator 10 from the Options pop-up menu. Then choose • Separate from the Output pop-up menu.
Page 364: Automating Tasks
Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back Automating Tasks About automating tasks using actions and scripts Graphic design is a ﬁeld characterized by creativity, but aspects of the actual work of illus- tration and page layout are anything but creative. When you think about the work that you do, chances are good you’ll ﬁnd that you spend most of your time doing the same or...
Page 365 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back Displaying actions as buttons Choose Button Mode from the Actions palette menu. Choose Button Mode again to return to list view. Note: You cannot expand and collapse sets and commands when the Actions palette is in Button mode.
Page 366 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back 7 To guard against mistakes, record the File > Save a Copy command at the beginning of the action. 8 Choose commands as you want them recorded. If the command you choose opens a dialog box, clicking OK records the command and clicking Cancel does not record it.
Page 367 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back 4 Set the following options in the Set Selection dialog box: Select Case Sensitive to select only objects that exactly match the uppercase or • lowercase words in their Note text.
Page 368 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back 3 Type the message you want to appear. 4 If you want the option to continue the action without stopping, select Allow Continue. 5 Click OK. Setting modal controls and excluding commands After recording an action, you can insert a modal control.
Page 369 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Specify what to play: To play a set of actions, select the set name. • To play a single action, select the action name. • To play only part of an action, select the command from which you want the action •...
Page 370 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back 2 For Set, choose the desired set. 3 For Action, choose the desired action. 4 For Source, choose an option: Folder to play an action on ﬁles (including subfolders) already stored on your computer.
Page 371 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back Log Errors to File to record each error in the ﬁle without stopping the batch process. If • errors are logged to this ﬁle, a message appears after ﬁles are processed, alerting you to review the error ﬁle.
Page 372 Adobe Illustrator Help Automating Tasks Using Help Contents Index Back Press Enter or Return to retain the same settings. • 3 If a dialog box appears, do one of the following: Change the values and click OK to record them.
Page 373 3 Type a name for the set, choose a location, and click Save. The default actions set is saved in the Presets/Action Sets folder within the Adobe Illustrator application folder. To replace all actions in the Actions palette with a new set of actions: 1 Choose Replace Actions from the Actions palette menu.
Page 374 Copy the script to your computer’s hard disk. If you place the script in the Presets/Scripts folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder, the script will appear in the File > Scripts submenu. If you place the script in another location on your hard disk, you can execute the script in Illustrator using the File >...
Page 375: Using Graphs
Back Using Graphs About graphs Adobe Illustrator graph tools let you create nine different graph types: Column The default graph type. It compares one or more sets of values by using rectangles whose lengths are proportional to the values. Stacked column Similar to a column graph, but stacks the columns on top of one another, instead of side by side.
Page 376 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back To create a graph: 1 Do one of the following: To create a graph using the current settings, select a graph tool . • To set graph options before creating the graph, double-click a graph tool. In the Graph •...
Page 377 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 2 If the graph data dialog box is not already open, choose Object > Graph > Data. B C D Graph data dialog box A. Entry line B. Import data C. Transpose row/column D. Switch x/y E. Cell style F. Revert G.
Page 378 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back Use the arrow keys to move from cell to cell. • Click any cell. • 5 To correct a mistake or to change how data is entered in the graph data dialog box,...
Page 379 If you ﬁrst save data ﬁles as text in other applications, you can import the data ﬁles into Adobe Illustrator. In the text ﬁles, each cell must be separated by a tab, and each row must be separated by a carriage return.
Page 380 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back To edit existing data: 1 Click the cell you want to edit. The cell is highlighted, and the cell’s data is shown in the entry line. 2 Do one of the following for editing data: Enter a value in the selected text box.
Page 381 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Enter a value between 0 and 10 in the Number of Decimals text box. The default is 2. This means that if you enter the number 4, it appears in the graph data dialog box as 4.00;...
Page 382 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back Connect Data Points draws lines that connect the data points and makes it easier to see • relationships between data. Edge-to-Edge Lines draws lines that extend across the graph, from left to right along •...
Page 383 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back Specifying the value axis position You can specify whether to have the value axis (typically the y axis) displayed on the left side, the right side, or both sides of the graph. You can have the same axis displayed on both sides, or, if you want different scales to appear on either side, you can select speciﬁc...
Page 384 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 10 Choose Value Axis from the Graph Options pop-up menu, reenter the changes you want to make to the right axis values, and then click OK. Note: Once you have created a graph with a separate right and left axis, you cannot adjust the axis values.
Page 385 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 5 For category axes, select Draw Tick Marks Between Labels to draw tick marks on either side of the labels or columns, or deselect the option to center tick marks over the labels or columns.
Page 386 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 2 Click OK. By default, legends are displayed to the right of the graph. You can choose to display them horizontally across the top of the graph. 1980 1990 1980 1990 Graph with default legends compared to graph with legends across top.
Page 387 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back To change graph types: 1 Select the graph. 2 Choose Object > Graph > Type, or double-click the graph tool. 3 Choose Graph Options from the pop-up menu at the top left of the Graph Type dialog box.
Page 388 You can create a custom startup ﬁle that contains the graph designs you use most frequently. The graph designs contained in the startup ﬁle then appear in the graph design list in the Graph Design dialog box and are available in every new Adobe Illustrator ﬁle you create. (See “Creating a custom startup ﬁle”...
Page 389 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back If you want to move a set of data in a line graph in front or in back of another set of data, you must select the entire set of data, including the legend. Selecting just the data points is not sufﬁcient.
Page 390 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back A uniformly scaled design is scaled both vertically and horizontally. The horizontal • spacing of the designs is not adjusted for the different widths. 1980 1990 1980 1990 Vertically scaled graph design compared to uniformly scaled graph design A repeating design stacks a design to ﬁll the columns.
Page 391 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back You can also rotate the design in the Graph Column dialog legend box. By default, the design is rotated to appear horizontal in the legend box. You can turn this option off so that the design appears vertically in the legend box.
Page 392 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back Only the portion of the design that ﬁts inside the backmost rectangle appears, but the whole design appears when used in the graph. 9 Click Rename. Name the design, and click OK. Then click OK again.
Page 393 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back 6 Using the selection tool , select the entire design, including the rectangle and any type. 7 Choose Object > Group to group the design. 8 Choose Object > Graph > Design.
Page 394 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Graphs Using Help Contents Index Back The design is scaled so that the backmost rectangle in the design is the same size as the default square marker on the line or scatter graph. Line graph with marker designs Reusing a graph design You can reuse a graph design that you created and edit it to make a new design.
Page 395: Macintosh Shortcuts
Adobe Illustrator Help Macintosh Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Macintosh Shortcuts Selecting and moving Result Action , , or (last used) Any tool (except selection tools) + (last used) + Ctrl + Tab –click tool Adds to a selection...
Page 396 Adobe Illustrator Help Macintosh Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Transforms patterns (independent of , , , , or + ~ –drag object) Rotates selection –click and then drag anywhere outside of bounding box Skews selection (after mouse down only) –drag handles (...
Page 397 Adobe Illustrator Help Macintosh Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Path Editing Result Action (convert-anchor-point tool) Edits existing path –drag (while drawing over or near selected path) Closes path over start point Click start point with the pen (smooth tool)
Page 398 Adobe Illustrator Help Macintosh Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Hides unselected artwork Converts between horizontal and vertical –drag guide guide Releases guide + –double-click guide Command Option Shift Type Result Action Aligns left, right, or center + L, R, or C Justiﬁes...
Page 399: Windows Shortcuts
Adobe Illustrator Help Windows Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Windows Shortcuts Selecting and moving Result Action , , or (last used) Any tool (except selection tools) + Ctrl (last used) Ctrl + Tab Alt –click tool Adds to a selection...
Page 400 Adobe Illustrator Help Windows Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Transforms patterns (independent of , , , , or + ~ –drag object) Rotates selection –click and then drag anywhere outside of bounding box Skews selection (after mouse down only) + Ctrl –drag handles (...
Page 401 Adobe Illustrator Help Windows Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Path Editing Result Action (convert-anchor-point tool) + Alt + Alt Edits existing path –drag (while drawing over or near selected path) Closes path over start point Click start point with the pen...
Page 402 Adobe Illustrator Help Windows Shortcuts Using Help Contents Index Back Hides unselected artwork Ctrl + Alt + Converts between horizontal and vertical Alt –drag guide guide Releases guide Ctrl + –double-click guide Shift Type Result Action Aligns left, right, or center...
Page 403: Legal Notices
Inc. 2001. Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to Adobe Systems Incorporated to distribute for use only in combination with Adobe Illustrator. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of Adobe Illustrator software.
Page 404 Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Index Adobe PDF file format Adobe Photoshop. See Photoshop About Plug-ins command Adobe Premiere...
Page 405 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z for rotating objects Automatically option...
Page 406 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z printing issues changing preferences for all...
Page 407 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z chroma black point compensation Chrome command...
Page 408 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z selecting objects by same converting type into...
Page 409 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z corners, rounding dashed lines, creating...
Page 410 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z distance, measuring 12, Dry Brush command...
Page 411 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ellipses, drawing 63, exporting ellipsis (symbol), in text...
Page 412 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z conserving 359, FOCOLTONE colors Film Grain command...
Page 413 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z and Adaptive palette graphs custom color table...
Page 414 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z locking and unlocking aligning along path...
Page 415 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Info palette 12, Ink Outlines command labels, for separations ink tool.
Page 416 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z duplicating items in Link Blocks command...
Page 417 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z uploading changes to modes. See color modes...
Page 418 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z New Sublayer command objects, managing...
Page 419 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z inverting black Open command 28, 33, 34,...
Page 420 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Path Simplify command fitting headline type across paths...
Page 421 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z dragging objects into Illustrator polar grid tool...
Page 422 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Preview view Proof Colors command...
Page 423 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z squares 63, rasterization settings rectangles, text 251,...
Page 424 Save commands Select All Unused command Save for Web command selecting saving anchor points and segments 97, artwork in Adobe PDF format artwork using Layers palette artwork in EPS format brush strokes artwork in Illustrator format masks artwork in SVG format...
Page 425 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z with same attributes by specifying angle and axis...
Page 426 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z creating with scissors tool 61, exporting to Photoshop splitting.
Page 427 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Stroke palette Illustrator and See also stroke attributes...
Page 428 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z symbol styler tool 10, Tile Full Pages option 30,...
Page 429 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z changing 192, vector graphics and creating knockouts Type &...
Page 430 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help Contents Index Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z indenting paragraphs masks justifying objects...
Page 431 GoLive integration wrapping type Web Shift button wrinkle tool 9, Web Shift/Unshift Selected Colors command Web site for Adobe Web Snap slider x and y axes, rotating and constraining WebDAV servers, about x and y coordinates, measuring Web-safe colors...

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