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Contents

Introduction ......... .......... ......... ......... .......... ......... ......... .4

Read about the purpose o this guide and its benets or FreeHand users.

Key Terms ....................................................................6

See how Illustrator terms compare with those in FreeHand.

Converting Macromedia FreeHand Documents..................................9

Learn about opening your FreeHand documents in Illustrator.

The Illustrator Workspace.............. .......... ......... ......... .......... . 10

Take a tour o the Illustrator CS4 workspace which oers a host o eatures including tabbed

documents and a context-sensitive Control panel.

Setting up a New Document ........ .......... ......... ......... .......... .... 15

Learn how to take advantage o multiple artboards or your projects, how to use Smart Guides

and nested layers.

Working with Brushes and Gradients .......... ......... ......... .......... .... 20

Apply transparency to colors in gradients, edit gradients with on-object controls, and draw with

the new Blob Brush tool.

Working with Appearances and Styles ......... ......... ......... .......... .... 27

See how easy it is to create and edit multiple appearance attributes and intricate graphic styles.

Working with Text... ......... ......... .......... ......... ......... .......... . 31

Take your text to a new level with extensive and powerul text tools.

Saving and Exporting Files............ ......... .......... ......... ......... ... 34

Save and export your artwork to many standard le ormats.

Printing ......... ......... ......... .......... ......... ......... .......... .... 37

Print your artwork reliably, thanks to Separations Preview, a streamlined print interace, and

extensive support or Adobe PDF output.

Keyboard Shortcuts ........ .......... ......... .......... ......... ......... ... 40

Find a list o some o the most useul Illustrator CS4 keyboard shortcuts.

Additional Resources.... .......... ......... ......... .......... ......... ...... 44

Discover useul resources or learning more about I llustrator eatures, tools, and techniques.


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Welcome, and thank you or having made the move or thinking about moving rom

Macromedia FreeHand to Adobe Illustrator CS4.

FreeHand is no longer being developed to be compatible with new operating systems and

hardware, or to integrate with other key design applications, such as Adobe Photoshop CS4

and Adobe InDesign CS4. Your move to Illustrator is an important step to ensure that you

can take advantage o new technologies and capabilities as they become available.

Tis guide explains the main dierences between the two programs and introduces you to

some o the new eatures in Illustrator CS4. It is written specically or FreeHand users like

you, to help you transition to Illustrator as quickly and as smoothly as possible.

Your experience using FreeHand gives you a good oundation or moving to Illustrator.

I you have been using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign, your move will be even

easier, because all Adobe graphics applications have common commands, panels, and

keyboard shortcuts. Further, Illustrator is tightly integrated with the components o

Adobe Creative Suite 4, providing the industry-standard vector soware that completesyour toolset or print, web, interactive, motion, and mobile content design.

One o the new eatures in Illustrator CS4 that appeals to FreeHand users is multiple

artboards. You can now work among many artboards o varying size in one le, and export

them separately or together as a multipage PDF.

Also o interest to FreeHand users is the ability to work with tools and control eects directly

on your objects, including the application o transparency to colors in a gradient.

We hope this guide gives you the basics to explore Illustrator CS4, and makes your transition

rom FreeHand a little bit easier.

Introduction


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Key Terms

Pasteboard Canvas

What you know as the pasteboard in FreeHand is called the canvas inIllustrator. The canvas is the area outside the artboards that extends to the

edge o a 227-inch square window. The canvas represents the space where

you can arrange artboards, or create, edit, and store elements o artwork

beore moving them onto an artboard. Objects placed on the canvas are

visible onscreen, but they do not print.

Pages Artboards

In FreeHand, you can set up multiple pages within a single document;

Illustrator provides multiple artboards within a le that serve as multiple

pages or spreads. Alternately, you can divide the area o one artboard

using page tiling to dene multiple pages.

Object Properties Panel Appearance panel

In FreeHand, the Object Properties panel is a context-sensitive area where

you access ormatting options or any selected object. In I llustrator, to

achieve the same unction, you use the Appearance panel. The

Appearance panel lets you view and adjust the appearance o attributes

or any object, group, or layer.

Multiple lls and strokes are listed in stacking order in the panel and

eects are listed rom top to bottom in the order in which they are applied

to the artwork. Additionally, you can edit lls, strokes, and eects directly

rom the Appearance panel, and you can control their display with a quick

toggle o the eye-icon.

Import Place

In Illustrator, you can place both graphic and text les; placed graphics

can be either linked or embedded into the document and are accessible

rom the Links panel. Integration across Adobe Creative Suite components

allows you, or example, to choose layer comps when you place

Photoshop les into Illustrator.

Because FreeHand and Illustrator are both vector drawing programs, they share many

common tools and commands.

Many o the terms used in the Illustrator menus, dialog boxes, and panels are identical

to those used in FreeHand. For example, tools and layers are essentially the same in

both programs. In some cases, FreeHand and Illustrator use dierent terms or the same

concept. For example, in FreeHand you work with pages, while in Illustrator you work with

artboards. Once you understand the dierences in terms, you are likely to nd the concepts

quite similar. Here are some key terms that dier between FreeHand and Illustrator:

FreeHand Term Illustrator Term

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Transorm Handles Bounding box

When you select objects with the Selection tool, Illustrator displays a bounding

box around them. The bounding box lets you move, rotate, duplicate, and scale

objects easily by dragging the object or dragging a handle (one o the hollow

squares along the edge o the bounding box). To view the bounding box,

choose View > Show Bounding Box.

Keyline View Outline

By deault, Illustrator displays all artwork in color. However, you can choose to

display artwork so that only its outlines (or paths) are visible. Viewing artworkwithout paint attributes speeds up the time it takes to redraw the screen when

working with complex artwork. To view artwork as outlines, choose View >

Outline. To view artwork in color, choose View > Preview.

Live Vector Efects Efects

Eects in Illustrator are live, which means that you can modiy them even

ater they are applied. You can apply eects to any object and then modiy

its vectors or the eects options, or you can remove the eect entirely using

the Appearance panel. Once you apply an eect to an object, the Appearance

panel lists the eect and enables you to edit, move, duplicate, or delete it, or

save it as part o a graphic style.

Extrude Tool 3D efects3D eects enable you to create three-dimensional objects by either extruding

or revolving two-dimensional objects. You can control the appearance o three-

dimensional objects with lighting, shading, rotation, and other properties.

Edit In External Editor Edit Original

Illustrator is highly integrated with Photoshop. Edit a linked bitmap using

Photoshop by selecting the placed image and choosing Edit Original in the

Control panel or Links panel, or rom the Edit menu.

Attach to Path Type on a Path

In Illustrator, you select a path and type text on that path using the Type on a

Path tool. You can then move or fip text along the path by dragging handles

on the sides o the text. You can also choose to apply options such as Skew

and 3D Ribbon while text remains editable.

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Graphic Hose Tool Symbol Sprayer

The symbolism tools let you create and modiy sets o symbol instances.

You create a symbol set using the Symbol Sprayer tool. You can then use the

other symbolism tools to change the density, color, location, size, rotation,

transparency, and style o the instances in the set. You are not limited to a

particular set o symbols; you can create and use as many as you want. All the

symbols you create are available in the Symbols panel.

Output Area Tool Multiple Artboards

Controlling the boundaries o your output is best accomplished with multiple

artboards in Illustrator CS4. You can create up to 100 artboards in one le,

each o any size and arranged as you like. You can control ruler parameters,

video and title-sae indicators, and even create artboards within artboards to

dene custom subset areas o artwork. By deault all artwork is cropped to an

artboard upon output, and you can choose whether your multiple artboards are

automatically output as separate pages or separate les.

Eraser Eraser tool

Quickly remove areas o artwork as easily as you erase pixels in Photoshop by

stroking with your mouse or stylus over any shape or set o shapes. New paths

will automatically be created along the edges o your erased stroke with points

laid down economically, but still preserving the smoothness o your erasure.

Styles Graphic styles

A graphic style is a set o reusable appearance attributes. Graphic styles allow

you to quickly change the look o an object. For example, you can change its

ll and stroke color, alter its transparency, and apply eects in one step. All the

changes you apply with graphic styles are completely reversible and editing the

attributes that make up the graphic style is easy using the Appearances panel.

You can even add styles to an object or group o objects without destroying

existing attributes.

Mixer Color panel

You use the Color panel to apply color to an objects ll and stroke, and also

to edit and mix colors. The Color panel can display color values using dierent

color models. By deault, only the most commonly used options are visible in

the Color panel. To display the panel, choose Window > Color. To change the

color model, choose Grayscale, RGB, HSB, CMYK, or Web Sae RGB rom thepanel menu.

Paste Inside Clipping Mask

Hide parts o an object or group o objects by dening a path as a clipping

mask, with similar results as pasting contents into a closed path in FreeHand.

Work easily with both masks and masked objects, quickly switching between

them or editing and controlling visibility.


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C O N V E R T I N G M A C R O M E D I A F R E E H A N D D O C U M E N T S

Converting Macromedia

FreeHand documents

Illustrator can open FreeHand les up to version 10 and FreeHand MX (version 11).

Artwork rom FreeHand versions 7 and 8 will open with ewer options than later versions.

FreeHand allows you to import both CMYK and RGB image les. I you open a FreeHand

document that contains both CMYK and RGB images in Illustrator, youll be prompted to

choose a specic color space (see Setting up a New Document on page 15).

I the original FreeHand document contains more than one page, these will become separate

artboards in the Illustrator document; multiple artboards in Illustrator CS4 can be printed

and saved separately or as a multipage PDF. You also have the option import only a specic

page rom a FreeHand le (see Multiple Artboards on page 17).

Other import eatures include:

Import o FreeHand swatches, dened in the Swatches palette in FreeHand, as swatches

in Illustrator CS4.

Import o FreeHand symbols as symbols in Illustrator CS4.

Import o FreeHand raster eectsdrop shadow, basic and eather transparencyas

live eects in Illustrator CS4.

Import o FreeHand Envelopes as Envelope eects in Illustrator CS4.

Import o FreeHand custom guides as Illustrator CS4 guides.

Te ability to outline text upon import so that text appearance in FreeHand is preserved

in Illustrator CS4.

Proper positioning o FreeHand text, including text alignment, text wrap, vertical text,

and text inset, upon import into Illustrator CS4.

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The Illustrator Workspace

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Illustrator shares the same user interace with Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks, and Flash

Proessional CS4, so you can quickly access amiliar tools. You can dock panels in your

avorite conguration, pull them out to oat ree anywhere on your screen, and collapsethem to an icon view. You can save custom workspace congurations and move between

les easily with tabbed and tiled views o multiple documents.

Te basic workspace in Illustrator consists o an illustration window where you draw and

lay out your artwork, a ools panel that holds the tools or drawing and editing artwork,

and panels to help you monitor and modiy your artwork. Panels include a context-sensitive

Control panel across the top or the workspace that displays controls based on your selection.

Te status bar (at the lower-le edge o the illustration window) displays the current zoom

level, the current artboard with an artboard navigation menu, and current tool. It shows

date and time, number o undos and redos available, document color prole, and more.

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The Tools panel

Use the tools in the ools panel to create, select, and manipulate objects in Illustrator. Chooseto display tools in a double or single column by clicking on the double arrows at the top o

the ools panel. Some tools have additional tools beneath them (hidden tools), indicated by a

small triangle at the lower right corner o the tool. Click and hold to reveal hidden tools.

You can tear o hidden tools into separate panels by clicking and holding the tool, and then

moving your cursor to the right and releasing at the edge o the hidden tool pop-up. Hover

your cursor over any tool to see its name and keyboard shortcuts.

The Application Bar

Te Application Bar is the top rame o the application window and includes options or

arranging your workspace as well as ast access to Adobe Bridge (see page 14). Te Arrange

Documents menu enables layout o multiple Illustrator documents in a variety o tiled

arrangements. Te Favorites pulldown provides ast access to all preset workspaces and your

custom saved workspaces. You can ensure that the Application Bar appears by choosing

Window > Application Frame.

Illustrator tools

The rst time you start Illustrator, the Tools panel appears at the let side

o the screen. You can move the Tools panel by dragging its panel tab.

You can also show or hide the Tools panel by choosing Window > Tools.

Selection tools

Type tools

Drawing tools

Paintbrush tool

Blob Brush and Eraser tools

Symbol and graph tools

Free Transorm tool

Live Paint tools

Multiple Artboard tool

Move and zoom tools

Color

Screen modes

About the Selection tools

In FreeHand, you use the Pointer tool to select both

objects and single points; with the Subselect tool, you

can modiy curves and objects in groups. In I llustrator,

the Selection tool lets you select objects or groups;

the Direct Selection tool lets you modiy objects or

groups and select multiple single points on a path.

Use the Lasso tool to select multiple points by

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The Control panel

Te Control panel is context sensitive and oers quick access to options related to theobjects you select. For example, i you select a vector object, many controls you will need

to change its attributes appear there, including commands or precise positioning. You can

access anchor point controls, selection tools, clipping masks, envelope distortions, char-

acter attributes, and more, all exposed contextually so you can use the Control panel as your

primary tool or editing your artwork.

Te Control panel also provides ast access to panels, which, in some cases, oer additional

options. Click a blue hyperlink to open another panel or easy access. o congure the

Control panel, choose options rom the panels pop-up menu, also called the panel menu.

A. Click to close panel.

B. Click to show/hide panel options.

C. Click to collapse/expand panel height.

D. Click to show pop-up menu or the panel.

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action, brush, style, layer, or swatch. Option-click (Mac OS)

or Alt-click (Windows) to set options (except action and

brush). Drag onto button to duplicate action, brush, style,

layer, swatch, or appearance.

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Common panel actions

Panels

You can access all panels in Illustrator rom the Window menu; some can

also be activated by clicking the blue hyperlinks in the Control panel.

A panel can be grouped with another by dragging its tab onto the other

panel. o dock panels so that they move together, drag a panels tab tothe bottom o another panel until you see a blue line. When the panels

are grouped or stacked in panes, they can be collapsed into an icon view

to urther optimize the working space. Once you have organized the

panels, you can save your setup as a Workspace by choosing Window >

Workspace > Save Workspace.

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Tip: To print the list o keyboard

shortcuts rom within Illustrator, choose

Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to open the

dialog box, and click Export Text.

Context-sensitive menus

You can quickly access many commands using context-sensitive menus that displaycommands relevant to the active tool, selection, or panel. o display a context-sensitive

menu, right-click in the document window or panel (or Control-click on Mac OS).

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Keyboard shortcuts

Illustrator lets you assign keyboard shortcuts or many operations. Te Keyboard Shortcuts

dialog box (choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) serves as your shortcut editor, and includes

all commands that support shortcuts, some o which arent in the deault shortcut set. For a

list o keyboard shortcuts, see page 40.

On-object controls

A number o tool control panels appear directly on your selected object. For example, when

you click the gradient tool and then select an object, gradient panel controls appear on the

selection so you can quickly edit your gradient and more easily stay ocused on your work.

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Preerences

Beore you begin creating artwork with Illustrator, amiliarize yoursel with theprograms deault settingsspecically the options available in the Preerences

dialog box (in Mac OS, choose Illustrator > Preerences > General, or in Windows,

choose Edit > Preerences > General). You can customize these settings to suit your

needs, creating a work environment thats both productive and comortable. As you

look through the panes in the Preerences dialog box, youll see that many o the

options are identical to those in FreeHand. Youll also nd several unamiliar but

useul options, such as the option to use the clipboard to transer selections between

an Illustrator le and other Adobe applications.

Te clipboard is particularly useul or moving paths rom one application to

another because paths are copied to the clipboard as PostScript language descrip-

tions. Artwork copied to the clipboard is pasted in PIC ormat in most applica-

tions. However, some applications, such as InDesign, accept PDF or AICB (Adobe

Illustrator Clipboard) data. PDF preserves transparency; AICB lets you speciy

whether you want to preserve the overall appearance o the selection or copy the

selection as a set o paths (which can be useul in Photoshop and InDesign).

Color management

Te Adobe color management system helps maintain the appearance o colors as you

import images, edit or transer documents between Adobe applications, and as you

output your nished work.

By deault, color management is turned on in Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.

You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display o RGB and CMYK

colors no matter which application you view them in.

o change color settings within Illustrator, choose Edit > Color Settings. o ensure

that your colors are synchronized across Adobe Creative Suite components, open

Adobe Bridge, choose Edit > Creative Suite Color Settings, and select an appropriate

prole. For more inormation about color management, search Illustrator Help.

Help and training

Adobe provides a number o ways to get help with learning to use Illustrator. Your

rst stop is Adobe Community Help, accessible by choosing Help > Illustrator Help.

Not only will you nd complete tools help, but thanks to a powerul search engine,

you'll also nd a variety o online resources rom industry experts.

You can also watch videos on Adobe V that both instruct and inspire. Get tips,tricks, and step-by-step tutorials that show you just how to achieve eects rom the

very simple to the wonderully sophisticated. Use Adobe V to discover the most

current techniques developed by Illustrator users and to stay connected with the

creative world.

Find a comprehensive list o these and additional resources on page 44.

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you easily organize, browse, locate, and view

creative assets. Bridge provides centralized

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Setting up a New Document

When you start Illustrator, the Welcome

screen lets you access your recent

documents or choose a new type o

document or your choice o media.

You can choose how many artboards you

wish to work with, up to 100, arranged any

way you want. For example, you can create

a 12-page document or print with 12 letter-

sized artboards arranged in three rows o

our. And you can set bleed sizes or all

artboards when you create a new document.

All o these settings are easily changed at

any time.

I youre working on a video project, choose

a New Document prole or video, selecting

a size such as NSC DV. Your color mode

will be set to RGB and your artboard will

automatically show the ormats dimensions

with guides or video and title-sae areas.

I youre working on a web project, choose

a New Document Prole or the web to

automatically set raster resolution to 72ppi

and color to RGB. Print proles deault to

CMYK color and oer a range o popular

artboard setups including preset raster-

eects resolutions. You can also save your

own custom proles that speciy setup

parameters such as artboard dimensions,

swatches, brushes, styles, and color spaces.

o create a new document, you can also

choose File > New and choose a New

Document Prole depending on the

intended use o your illustration. As noted

above, the New Document Prole will set

dimensions, units, color mode and raster

eects parameters based on the prole

selected. Any o these settings can be

modied to suit your needs.

You can change raster eects settings at any

time by choosing Eects > Document Raster

Eects settings. o change the color mode,

choose File > Document Color Mode.

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Wheres the Document panel?

In FreeHand, you use the Document panel to target and select pages and to choose

page dimensions, orientation, bleed settings, and printer resolution.

In Illustrator, choose File > Document Setup to access artboards options and choose

settings or type and transparency at the document level. You can also dene the

dictionary used or spell-checking and hyphenation, the position o superscripts, the

scale or small caps, or how to copy transparency eects over to the clipboard or use

within Illustrator or in other applications. Bleeds are also dened and edited in the

Document Setup dialog box.

Document templates

You can use templates to create new documents that share common settings and

design elements. Te template can also contain symbols or common design

elements (such as logos) and specic sets o color swatches, brushes, and graphicstyles. Save your artwork in Adobe Illustrator emplate (AI) ormat and when you

select a template using the New From emplate command, Illustrator creates a new

document with identical content to the template.

Printable area

Nonprintablearea (printermargins)

Artboard

Canvas

The Illustrator document

Artboards represent the areas that

can contain printable artwork.

They can be o any dimension, as

can your page size. For example,one artboard may be 15x15 inches,

while your print settings speciy

8-1/2x11-inch paper.

You can view page boundaries by

showing page tiling (View > Show

Page Tiling). When page tiling is

on, the printable and nonprintable

areas are represented by a series

o solid and dotted lines. You can

move the printable area by using

the Page tool.

The canvas is the 227-square incharea outside o all artboards.

This is the total area available

or arranging and working with

your artboards.

You can create, edit, and store

elements o artwork in the canvas,

but they will not print.

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Multiple Artboards

When you open a multipage FreeHand le with Illustrator CS4, the pages are imported asindividual artboards. Not only does this support pages o the same size, your artboards can

be o any dimension so you can work on a variety o projects in a single le. Arrange up to

100 artboards on your canvas any way you wanttiled, overlapping or reeorm. You can

even create an artboard inside an artboard to easily export just a piece o a composition.

Multiple artboards provide a powerul way to organize projects with

multiple pages or diverse outputs by sharing settings and content across

designs. And you can export your artboards in any supported le ormat

as a series o les that are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as

a single, multipage PDF leyour choice.

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How do I set up measurement units?

In Illustrator, there are several ways to select units o measurement and change units display

as you work:

In the Preerences dialog box, choose Units & Display Perormance and select units o

measurement or your document, and or Stroke and ype.

Choose a global measurement unit when you create a new document. You can always

change it later by using the Document Setup dialog box.

Override deaults by typing units in the Control panel. For example, ollow your numeric

value with abbreviations such as cm, mm, in, Q, pt, pc, or px.

urn on ruler visibility by selecting View > View Rulers. You can then quickly switch

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Using guides and grids

Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides(straight vertical or horizontal lines) and guide objects (vector objects that you

convert to guides). You can choose guide styles and color. By deault, guides

are unlocked, and can be moved, modied, or deleted. Lock guides in place by

choosing View > Guides > Lock Guides.

Additional indicators called Smart Guides assist you while you work. Align

objects and artboards with each other using Smart Guides and see on-cursor

readouts showing location coordinates. You can also see rotation angle, and

relation to nearby objects according to your selections edge rather than cursor

positioncontinuously, while you transorm your object. Smart Guide options

are set up in the Preerences dialog box.

When you choose View > Show Grid, a grid appears behind your artwork in the

illustration window. Change the spacing between gridlines, grid color, and grid

style using the Preerences dialog box. Grids and guides do not print.

Where is the Guides Layer?

In FreeHand, there is a deault layer called Guides that allows you to move guidesover or under the artwork. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on which they

were created; to emulate FreeHands behavior, create a layer and name it Guides.

You can add guides to that layer, turn the layer on or o, and move it over or

under the layers o your artwork.

Tip: To emulate the snapping eature

in FreeHand, activate Smart Guides in

Illustrator by choosing View > Smart

Guides. Smart Guides are temporary

snap-to guides that help you create,

align, edit, and transorm objects relative

to other objects.

Tip: You can perorm simple math in any

box that accepts numeric values using a

single mathematical operator, such as +

(addition), (subtraction), x (multiplication),

/ (division), or % (percent).

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sma gi p a mizai

sma gi avi a i pay.

sma gi wi -j a a a,

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Using layers

When creating complex artwork, its a challenge to keep track o all the items in yourdocument window. Small items get hidden under larger items, and selecting artwork

becomes dicult. Layers provide a way to manage all the items that make up your artwork.

Tink o layers as clear olders that contain artwork. I you reshufe the olders, you change

the stacking order o the items in your artwork. You can move items between olders and

create subolders. o display the Layers panel, choose Window > Layers.

Te structure o layers in your document can be as simple or complex as you want it to

be. By deault, all items are organized in a single layer. However, you can create new layers

and move items into them, or move elements rom one layer to another. Te Layers panel

provides an easy way to select, hide, lock, and change the appearance attributes o artwork.

You can even create template layers, which you can use to trace artwork, or exchange layers

with Photoshop.

By deault, Illustrator assigns a unique color to each layer in the Layers panel. Te colorappears in the layer's selection column when one or more objects within the layer are

selected. Te same color appears in the document window in the bounding box, path,

anchor points, and center point o the selected object. You can use this color to quickly

locate an objects corresponding layer in the Layers panel, and you can change this layer

color to suit your needs.

When a layer or an object contains other layers or objects, a triangle appears to the le o

the items name in the Layers panel. Click the triangle to show or hide the contents. When a

layer or an object is selected, a colored square appears at the right edge o the itemss name

in the Layers panel; to move the selected item to another layer or change its stacking order,

drag the colored square to the desired layer.

The Layers panel

Layer

Sublayer

Layer visibility toggle

Selection indicator (drag to move to another layer)

Target indicator or eects and appearances

Layer color code

Layer locking toggle


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Working with Brushes

and Gradients

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Ia a v api.

Drawing

Drawing in Illustrator is very similar to drawing in FreeHand; you use the Pen, Paintbrush,Blob Brush, and Pencil tools to draw vector graphics in Illustrator.

Using the Pen tool

Te Pen tool is the principal tool or drawing straight lines, Bzier curves, and complex

shapes. Tree related tools enable manipulation o anchor points: the Add Anchor Point

tool adds anchor points to a path, the Remove Anchor Point tool removes anchor

points, and the Convert Anchor Point tool converts a corner point to a smooth point or

vice versa. You can also quickly access many Pen tool options in the Control panel such as

control or removing, connecting, and cutting paths.

Selecting and modiying paths and anchor pointsIn Illustrator, you select entire paths (all anchor points selected) using the Selection tool .

o select individual anchor points, you can use the Direct Selection tool or the Lasso

tool ; then move and modiy anchor points. When you run your cursor over any anchor

point you can easily see and select it. In FreeHand, selected anchor points are indicated by a

hollow square; in Illustrator, selected anchor points are indicated by a lled square.

o align and distribute points, just as you would objects, make a selection with the Direct

Selection tool and use the alignment controls in the Control panel or in the Align panel.

Tere are a variety o ways to divide paths and add anchor points. Use the Path Eraser tool

to remove parts o a path by stroking across a single selected object or path segment. Ready

access to controls in the Control panel enables anchor point connection, conversion to

corner or smooth, addition and removal o anchor points, and control o handle visibility.

Tip: While using the Polygon or Star tool,

press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys

to add and remove sides rom a polygon

or points rom a star.

Tip: For more on Live Trace, see Creating Vector Content Using

Live Trace on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/products/

illustrator/pdfs/creating_vector_content.pdf).

Tracing Presets and Options

Create a Live Trace object Easily control resulting line quality

W O R K I N G W I T H B R U S H E S A N D G R A D I E N T S

Live Trace

Live race automatically turns placed

images into beautiully detailed

vector graphics that are easy to edit,

resize, and manipulate. You simply

select a placed bitmap image, and

click the Live race button in the

Control panel to create a Live raceobject. All settings are ully adjustable

to achieve exactly the line quality and

tracing characteristics you need, or

select rom a number o presets.


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In Illustrator, you can create shapes using natural sketching, thanksto the BlobBrush tool, the Eraser tool, and the Smooth tool. With a

combination o strokes and erasures, you can quickly experiment

with new shapes and then perect your objects without having to

use any geometric tools or open any panels.

Using the Blob Brush

Sketch with strokes that fow together using the Blob Brush tool.

Recapture the joy o ngerpainting with a tool that provides

amazing control while you sketch naturally and fuidly. The Blob

Brush tool generates a clean, lled, vector shape while you sketch,

even when strokes overlap, merging your paths naturally into

a single object thats easily selected and edited. And you cancustomize how your drawing fows together, choosing options or

stroke character and pressure sensitivity.

Using the Eraser tool

As with the Blob Brush tool, you can dene the diameter, angle, and

roundness o your Eraser tool. Stroke over your artwork to remove

areas regardless o the structure o the shape, and with an economy

o new anchor points. You can erase through all objects on all layers

with no selection, you can isloate specic objects or groups to erase,

or you can toggle o visibility o layers you wish to remain intact.

Double-click the Eraser tool to show the Options dialog box, where

you can set behaviors to achieve just the eect you want.

Using the Smooth tool

Reduce or eliminate unwanted bumps in a path using the Smooth

tool. Stoke along a selected path and see a clean smoothing o the

shape the without adding unwanted anchor points. Control the

delity o new points and amount o smoothness. Not only can you

smooth the appearance o a bumpy path, the Smooth tool is perect

or simpliying a path by removing extra anchor points.

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Fill color

Swap ll

and stroke

Stroke colorDeault lland stroke


Creating and applying color

In Illustrator, there are several ways you can apply color to strokes and lls.Te Color Picker lets you select an objects ll or stroke color by choosing rom a color

spectrum, dening colors numerically, or clicking a swatch. o display the Color Picker,

double-click the ll or stroke color selection box in the ools panel or Color panel.

In addition, you can use the Color panel to apply color to an objects ll or stroke, and use it

to edit or mix colors. Te Color panel can display color values using dierent color models.

o display the panel, choose Window > Color or click on Fill or Stroke in the ools panel.

Working with swatches

Swatches are named colors, tints, gradients, and patterns. Te swatches associated with adocument appear in the Swatches panel. In addition, you can open libraries o swatches

rom other Illustrator documents, and access various color systems. Swatch libraries appear

in separate panels and are not saved with the document until you drag and drop specic

swatches to the Swatches panel. Swatches can be organized into groups and viewed in

organized hierarchies.

In FreeHand, swatches are global (meaning that when you modiy the swatch, all items

colored with it change accordingly); in Illustrator, you can choose whether or not swatches

are global. You can save your own swatch libraries to use in other Illustrator documents

by saving in Illustrator ormat (AI). You can also share solid swatches between Photoshop,

Illustrator, and InDesign by saving a swatch library or exchange (ASE, Adobe Swatch

Exchange). Te colors appear the same across applications as long as your color settings are

synchronized. You can also create and share color group swatches by using the Kuler panelor the Kuler website.

How do I access Pantone Libraries?

o open a specic swatch library, including PANONE, HKS, rumatch, FOCOLONE,

DIC, OYO, and Web, choose it rom the Window > Swatch Libraries submenu or rom the

Swatch Libraries menu in the Swatches panel. When you open a swatch library, it appears in

a new panel (not in the Swatches panel as in FreeHand).

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Tip: Note that with artwork selected,

double-clicking on a Color Group icon

will recolor the selected artwork using

the new colors in that color group. And

a Recolor Artwork dialog box will open

automatically or ne-tuning.

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A. Color Group

B. Swatch Libraries

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W O R K I N G W I T H G R A P H I C S

Live Paint lets you ll vector graphics intuitively by automatically detecting shapes andcorrecting gaps. You can use Live Paint on any group o shapes, or try it on a traced image.

Select the traced vectors, and click the Live Paint button in the Control panel to convert

them to a Live Paint group. Select the Live Paint Bucket tool and click to ll regions with

color or gradients, using the arrow keys to choose which color swatch to apply. A red

outline indicates regions that you can ll in individually. Or, drag the bucket across multiple

regions to select them and ll them at once.

Live Paint enables location and repair o gaps where color leaks through open edges into

adjacent regions by clicking the Gap Options button in the Control panel.

Convert vectors to a Live Paint group Paint with the Live Paint Bucket Control gaps in your artwork

Tip: Triple-click with the

Live Paint Selection tool to

select all regions in a Live

Paint group that are lled

with the same color.

Live Paint

Kuler

Te Kuler panel is your portal to groups o colors, or themes, created by

the online community o designers. You can use it to browse thousands o

themes on Kuler, and then download some to edit or to include in your own

projects. You can also use the Kuler panel to share your themes with theKuler community by uploading them.

Open the Kuler panel by selecting Window > Extensions > Kuler. Search or

color themes by keywords and add selected themes to your swatches panel.

You can also save your search terms and quickly save themes that catch your

eye to your own Kuler list o saved themes.

You will need an internet connection to access the Kuler community rom

within Illustrator. You can also work with Kuler in any standard browser by

visiting http://kuler.adobe.com .

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Live Color

Live Color is a complete color exploration environment within Illustrator CS4. I youhave ever been rustrated by having to color objects individually, you will appreciate this

interactive way to create and apply color schemes.

Live Color lets you work with color in a variety o ways. Discover new and unique color

combinations that you can save and reuse. Interactively apply color to multiple objects at

once, test color schemes quickly, and re-color artwork according to specic schemes such as

PANONE or any custom library.

Live Color includes the Color Guide panel, which invites exploration o color groups

without aecting your artwork. Use the Color Guide panel to nd compelling colors

and save them to organized color groups in your Swatches panel. You can create color

schemes based on 23 classic color-harmony rules such as Complementary, Analogous,

Monochromatic, and riad, or you can create custom harmony rules. Choose a base color,

and then see what variations you come up with according to rules you choose. You can alsolimit color schemes to existing libraries such as PANONE solids or any set o colors you

may have saved in a previous project.

Live Color is also ideal or presenting color options to clients. Quickly change the entire look

and eel o a logo, a piece o collateral, or an illustration to present likely color schemes in

the comp phase o a project. And saving color variations is easier than ever, so moving rom

comps to nal production is ecient, thanks to quick application o saved schemes.

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In Illustrator, you apply gradient lls to objects using the Gradient tool that eatureson-object controls or easy editing. When you click the Gradient tool, the deault

gradient or last-applied gradient will be immediately applied to your selected object.

You can then edit the gradient and see results as you work, right on your object.

Gradients can also be added and edited using the Gradient panel. You can save

gradients to the Swatches panel or quick application to other objects and you can

adjust the transparency o any color in your gradients.

You will nd that Illustrator gradients are smoother than those you create in FreeHand

(without visible linear or radial steps) and output exactly as you have created them.

Gradients are dened by a series o stops in the gradient slider (a minimum o two).

A stop is the point at which a gradient changes rom one color to the next, and is

identied by a square below the gradient slider.

Transparency in Gradients

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Patterns

Illustrator comes with many patterns that you can access in the Swatches panel andin the Illustrator Extras older on the Illustrator CD. Patterns in Illustrator can be

much more intricate than the patterns oered in FreeHand, and you can also design

patterns rom scratch with any o the Illustrator tools, customize existing patterns,

and see the resulting patterns onscreen as you work.

Patterns tile rom le to right rom the ruler origin (by deault, the bottom le o the

artboard) to the opposite side o the artwork. o adjust where all patterns in your

artwork begin tiling, change the documents ruler origin. Patterns intended or lling

objects (ll patterns) dier in design and tiling rom brush patterns. For best results,

use ll patterns and brush patterns on the objects the way they were intended. Brush

patterns can consist o up to ve tiles (or the sides, outer corners, inner corners, and

the beginning and end o the path). Te additional corner tiles enable brush patterns

to ow smoothly at corners.

Symbols

Working with symbols is similar to working with graphic elements in a FreeHand

Library. A symbol is an art object that you can reuse in a document. For example, i

you create a symbol rom a lea, you can then add instances o that symbol multiple

times to your artwork without adding the complex art itsel. Each symbol instance is

linked to the master symbol in the Symbols panel or a symbols library. Using symbols

saves you time and greatly reduces le size.

You can make a symbol rom any vector, raster, or type object in your document or

use Illustrators built-in Symbols library. o create a symbol, drag and drop a graphic

element into the Symbols panel. Aer you place a symbol on the artboard, you can

edit the symbols instances and, i you want, redene the original symbol.

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W O R K I N G W I T H A P P E A R A N C E S A N D S T Y L E S

The Appearance panel

In FreeHand, you determine the properties o your objects in the Object Properties panel. InIllustrator, you use the Appearance panel to view and adjust the appearance attributes or an

object, group, or layer.

Appearance attributes are properties that aect the look o an object without altering its

underlying structure. Appearance attributes include lls, strokes, transparency, and eects

that you can apply to one object or multiple objects. You can then edit, remove, or toggle

the visibility o attributes rom within the Appearance panel in Illustrator CS4. You can even

copy and paste inside the panel, so adding attributes to any object is ast and simple.

In the Appearance panel, lls and strokes are listed in stacking order; top to bottom in the

panel as they correlate to ront to back in the artwork. Eects are listed rom top to bottom in

the order in which they are applied to the artwork. o display, choose Window > Appearance.

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I you wish to select all objects in your

artwork that have certain attributes,

you can use the Select menu to choose

Same Appearance Attribute. Once you

have selected objects with at least one

common attribute, edit that attribute in

the Appearance panel and see immediate

results on all objects at once.

Te power o editing attributes in the

Appearance panel lies in easy control

o advanced eects without interacting

with multiple panels. You can work in a

more centralized manner, manipulating

styles and complex combinations o

attributes across many objectsall rom

one place.

Working with Appearances

and Styles


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Graphic styles

As in FreeHand, graphic styles in Illustrator are combinations o lls, strokes, andeects that are saved together as a style. In Illustrator, combinations o attributes

can be applied to objects or text as a single graphic style, and you can layer and

combine multiple styles or unique eects. Te Graphic Styles panel includes an

option to preview all your styles on the selected object or group o objects. See

how a style will look without having to actually apply it.

Te Graphic Styles panel and the Appearance panel work hand in hand. o see all

the attributes that make up a graphic style, click on the style and nd its attributes

listed in the Appearance paneleach easily edited individually. And you can add

a new style to an object while pressing the Option key (Mac OS) or the Alt key

(Windows) and observe that it doesnt replace existing appearances.

Illustrator CS4 includes a new library o prebuilt styles to jump-start your creative

exploration. It includes sets o eects such as pre-set blurs and drop shadows thatyou can add without aecting lls. And, o course, you can generate your own

libraries o graphic styles that you can use again and again.

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Eects

Many commands or changing the look o objects are available in the Eect menu. Eectsare live, which means you can apply an eect to an object and then modiy or remove it

using the Appearance panel. o apply an eect, select an object, multiple objects, or groups

o objects and choose an eect rom the Eect menu. Te eect appears in the Appearance

panel where you can edit it, move it, duplicate it, delete it, or save it as part o a graphic style.

Te eects in the top hal o the Eect menu are vector eects. You can apply these eects

only to vector objects or to the ll or stroke o a bitmap object in the Appearance panel.

Te ollowing eects and eects categories rom the top section are exceptions to this rule

and can be applied to both vector and bitmap objects: 3D eects, SVG Filters, Warp eects,

ransorm eects, Drop Shadow, Feather, Inner Glow, and Outer Glow.

Te eects in the bottom hal o the Eect menu are raster eects. You can apply them to

either vector or bitmap objects.

When you use an eect, it doesn't change the underlying geometry o the object. o make

the eect permanent so that you can access new points and paths, you must expand the

object by choosing Object > Expand.

Placing graphics

Te Place command is the primary method o importing graphics, because it provides the

highest level o support or le ormats, placement options, and color. Aer you place les,

use the Links panel to identiy, select, monitor, and update any o your links. Alternatively,

you can use Bridge to drag and drop assets onto any artboard. Learn more about Adobe

Bridge CS4 on page 14.

One o the benets o Creative Suite 4 is integration among its components. Tis means that

you can not only place EPS, IFF, and other les, but also place native Photoshop les that

include transparency, and control the visibility o layer comps in linked, embedded, and

opened Photoshop les as easily as you control the visibility o regular Photoshop layers.

Edit a placed image by choosing Edit Original rom the Control panel or the Links panel in

Illustrator. Te placed le will open in Photoshop where you perorm your edit, then, when

you save the le, it will automatically be updated in Illustrator.

Tanks to the Adobe Color Engine (ACE), placed graphics dont suer color shis when

moved rom one application to another.

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Document raster eects settings

Whenever you apply a raster eect such as Blur or Sketch, Illustrator uses the

documents raster eects settings to determine the resolution o the resulting

image. These settings can have a large impact on your artwork; thereore,

it's important to check them beore you start working with eects and, more

importantly, beore you export or print your work. Set rasterization options

by choosing Eect > Document Raster Eects Settings. Document Raster

Eects Settings will be set correctly when you choose the appropriate New

Document prole or a particular medium.

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Isolation mode

In Illustrator CS4, Isolation mode is an essential method or workingwith complex artwork. Isolation mode is a boon or designers who

spend a lot o time grouping, hiding, locking, and restacking layers

to access objects or editing while protecting areas o artwork that

need to remain untouched.

Objects that can be isolated include layers, sublayers, groups,

symbols, clipping masks, compound paths, gradient meshes, paths,

and brushes (or editing brush denitions). Activate Isolation mode

by double-clicking with the Selection tool on a group o objects, and

see that the rest o your artwork becomes inaccessible. Continue to

double-click on a single object and see that Isolation Mode drills

into your nested groups to isolate just that object. Clickable, iconic

breadcrumbs show you just where you are, and you can add new

objects at that very location in your stacking orderyou can delete,

replace, and add new art relative to the isolated art.

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Clipping Masks

A clipping mask is an object whose shape masks other artwork so that only areas that lie

within the shape are visiblein eect, clipping the artwork to the shape o the mask. Work

with masks easily, thanks to true WYSIWYG behavior. When the clipping object or group

is selected, you will see only the clipped area. Edit the clipping object in Isolation Mode or

choose to make it visible using the Clipping Path menu options.

Te clipping path and the objects that are masked are called a clipping set. You can make

a clipping set rom a selection o two or more objects (object-level) or rom all objects in agroup or layer (layer-level). Easily see how your clipping and masked objects relate in the

Layers panel. Object-level clipping sets are combined as a group in the Layers panel. With

layer-level clipping sets, the object on top o the layer clips all o the objects below it.

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Type tool

Area Type tool

Type On A Path tool

Vertical Type tool

Vertical Area Type tool

Vertical Type On A Path tool

Working with Text Text composition methods

Te appearance o type on the page depends on a complex interaction oprocesses called composition. Using the word spacing, letter spacing, glyph

scaling, and hyphenation options youve selected, Illustrator evaluates possible

line breaks and chooses the one that best conorms to the specied parameters.

Illustrator oers two composition methods: the Adobe Every-line Composer and

the Adobe Single-line Composer.

Te single-line composer oers a traditional approach to composing typeone

line at a time. Tis option is useul i you want manual control over how lines

break or i you are working with legacy text that you do not want to reow.

Te every-line composer considers a network o break points or a range o lines,

and can optimize earlier lines in the paragraph in order to eliminate especially

unattractive breaks later on.

o choose one o these methods use the Paragraph panel menu. I you select

your type object with the Selection tool, Illustrator applies the method to all

paragraphs that are contained in it; i you click the text insertion point in a

paragraph the option will be applied only to that paragraph.

FreeHand uses a text composition engine that is very similar to the Adobe Single

Line Composer; i you notice unwanted text-reow in a converted document, try

changing the composition method.

Type tools

In FreeHand, you use the ext tool to enter text, either into xed size or auto

expanding text blocks, and then ow it into a shape or attach it to a path. In

Illustrator, there are three methods or creating type: at a point, inside an area,

and along a path.

Point type is a horizontal or vertical line o text that begins where you click

on the artboard with the ype tool and expands as you enter characters. Tis

method is useul or adding a ew words to your artwork. Point type resizes

when you drag the handles o the bounding box.

Area type uses the boundaries o a selected vector object to control the ow

o characters. When the text reaches a boundary, it automatically wraps to t

inside the dened area. Tis method is useul when you want to create one or

more paragraphs, such as or a brochure. Create a container or area type by

clicking and dragging a rectangular shape with the ype tool, or use the Area

ype tool to select any closed path to contain your text. You can also create atext area by clicking and dragging on the artboard with the ype tool. You can

modiy the shape o the type area by dragging handles o the bounding box;

text will reow in the new shape.

ype on a path ows along the edge o an open or closed path. Te text ows

in the direction in which points were added to the path.

In addition to typing text in your artwork, you can import it rom a variety o text

le ormats (or example Microso Word, RF ormat, or plain text documents)

by choosing File > Place.

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How do I insert special characters?

o insert special characters or characters or which you do not know the keyboard

shortcut, use the Glyphs panel (choose ype > Glyphs). Using any type tool, clickan insertion point where you want to enter the character, and then double-click the

character you want in the Glyphs panel.

How do I ormat text?

In FreeHand, you can ormat text in both the Object Panel and the ext toolbar. In

Illustrator, you can ormat selected text directly in the Control panel or by using the

Character and Paragraph panels.

Where are the text eects?

In Illustrator, there are no text-specic eects such as highlight, shadow, or zoom.

You apply text eects rom the Eect menu just as you would with any graphic

element. Youll nd strikethrough and underline in the Character panel (i you donot see these options, choose Show Options rom the panel menu).

How do I create rows and columns in a text area?

In FreeHand, you create multiple columns and rows in the Object panel; in

Illustrator, you use the Area ype Options dialog box. Select the text box in which

you want to add columns or rows, and choose ype > Area ype Options.

Type on a path

In FreeHand, you attach text to a path; Illustrator lets you type text on a path. You

can then move or ip text along the path by dragging handles on the sides o the text.

Choose ype > ype On A Path to speciy eects and other options, such as spacing.

Control panel

Text ormatting toolsCharacter panel

Paragraph panel

Font selection

Size, leading, kerning,and tracking

Horizontal and vertical scale,baseline shit, and text rotation

Underline and strikethrough

Language or hyphenationand spell checking

Alignment

Indents

Space beore and ater paragraph

Automatic hyphenation

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Linking text objectsI you want to insert text that will ow rom one text area to another,

you must link the areas. Each area shows an in port and an out port;an empty port indicates that all text is visible. An arrow indicates that

the object is linked to another object. A red plus sign in an out port

indicates that the object contains additional text (overow text).

When working with text that threads among objects, it can be useul

to show the threads; i they are hidden, choose View > Show ext

Treads, and then select a linked object.Out port

In port

Thread

Overfow text indicator

OpenType support

Te Openype ont standard was developed jointly by Adobe and Microso, and

it brings the advantages o the PostScript ype 1 and rueype ont ormats into

a ormat that takes advantage o Unicode character encoding. Openype onts

use a single ont le or both Windows and Macintosh computers.

When working with Openype onts, you can automatically activate alternate

glyphs, such as ligatures, small capitals, ractions, and old style proportional

gures. In Illustrator, these options are available in the Openype panel

(Window > ype > Openype).

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Tip:To create a style based on any selected

text, click the Create New Style button in the

Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel.

Paragraph and character styles

In FreeHand, text ormatting is saved at the object level; Illustrator allows you to save both

paragraph styles and character styles to quickly apply them to other text. I you modiy

a paragraph or character style, the changes aect all text in the document with that styleapplied. And you do not lose local ormatting such as bold or italic when you update a style.

Converting text to paths

Te Create Outlines command lets you turn type into a set o compound paths that you can

edit and manipulate as you would any other graphic object. Outlined text is converted in its

current position and characters retain all graphics ormatting, such as stroke and ll.

For more inormation, see Working with Type in Illustrator CS2 on the Adobe website (www.

adobe.com/products/illustrator/pdfs/Text_in_AICS2.pdf).


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Saving

In FreeHand, you can save your pages as a FreeHand document, template,or editable EPS. In Illustrator, you can save your work as an Illustrator le

or template, Illustrator EPS, Adobe PDF, and SVG (all are native ormats

easily reused or imported because they preserve all Illustrator data).

I you need to use the Illustrator le in an Adobe workow, you can leave

it in the Illustrator le ormat (select the Create PDF Compatible File

option in the Save As dialog box). You will then be able to place the le

into InDesign layouts or urther edit the le in Photoshop.

I you need to use your Illustrator artwork in applications outside o

Creative Suite you can save it as EPS, which is accepted by virtually all

page layout, word-processing, and graphic applications. Note that EPS

les can contain both vector and bitmap graphics.

Adobe PDF is the standard or the secure, reliable distribution and

exchange o electronic documents around the world. PDF is highly

eective in print publishing workows and you can also choose to create

a PDF/X-compliant le to eliminate many o the color, ont, and trapping

variables that can lead to printing problems.

Saving multiple artboards

Multiple artboards can be saved as multiple pages in a single PDF

document, or can be saved as individual les that are automatically

numbered sequentially in, or example, EPS ormat.

Saving and Exporting Files

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About PDF/X

PDF/X (Portable Document Format

Exchange) is an ISO standard used

or graphic content exchange and

proessional workfows.

The benet o using PDF/X is that

the produced PDF will not contain

unnecessary inormation and will not

include elements that may cause problems during output (such as RGB images).

Choose an Adobe PDF standard rom the Standard menu at the top o the

Save Adobe PDF dialog box. For more inormation on PDF/X, visit

www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr8ap_pdfx.html.

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Adobe Device Central

With Adobe Device Central CS4, you can preview how your artwork will display on mobiledevices. It helps preview, test, and optimize your content as you work by providing specic

target device templates so you can quickly switch back and orth between your Illustrator

view and device preview. Use Adobe Device Central to streamline your mobile publishing

workow and save time when working on mobile content.

Saving or the web and or devices

Although you can save your artwork as web-riendly les using the Export command, it is

much simpler to use the Save For Web & Devices command.

Save For Web & Devices allows you to choose web le ormats, select compression and color

options, and preview the optimized artwork. Additionally, you can change the image size

and export CSS (cascading style sheets) layers.In Illustrator, you can use slices to dene the boundaries o dierent web elements (such

as HML text, bitmap images, or vector graphics) in your artwork. For example, i your

artwork contains a bitmap image that needs to be optimized in JPEG ormat, while the rest

o the image is better optimized as a GIF, you can isolate the bitmap image using a slice.

When you save the artwork as a web page using the Save For Web & Devices command, you

can choose to save each slice as an independent le with its own ormat, settings, and color

panel. Slices in an Illustrator document correspond to table cells in the resulting web page.


Save For Web & Devices dialog box

2-Up tab Original artwork Preview o optimized artwork

Optimized le size andapproximate download time

Preview inBrowser

Slice Select tool

Toggle Slices Visibility

Presets

SWF andother leormatoptions

CSSlayers

or SWF

Preview in AdobeDevice Central

Optimize


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Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional integration

Kick o your Flash projects with Illustrator CS4 and have condence that your vectors will copy/paste and import reliably. Te integrity ocritical elements is ully maintained in Flash Proessional CS4, with intact pathsand correct anchor point positionsas well as gradients,

clipping masks, and symbols. Plus, your entire Illustrator layer and grouping structure is preserved, along with all object names. Use the

strengths o Illustrator to create intricate and unique vectors or your animations.

Features o particular interest to Flash designers include Illustrator symbols and type tools. Save any Illustrator shape as a symbol to paste

into Flash, and use Symbol tool options that are similar. ake advantage o the power o Illustrator type tools to create text or Flash,

choosing to dene it as Regular ext, Dynamic ext, or Input ext, and assigning properties accordingly.


Export artwork as SWF les using the Export command or the Save For Web &

Devices command. Options in the Export dialog box provide control over animation

and bitmap compression options, while options in the Save For Web & Devices dialog

box give you control over the mix o SWF and bitmap ormats in a sliced layout. You

can also use Save For Web & Devices to preview animation in a web browser.

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Exporting Flash animation from IllustratorCreating rame-based animation

Flash animation is rame based. Keep that in

mind when working with layers; each layer o

your Illustrator document can become a rame

o animation. For Flash animation that plays at

12 rames per second, you will need 12 layers or

each second o animation.

Using symbols

I you create a layer-based animation o repeated

shapes, you can use symbols instead o adding

complex art to every layer. Each symbol instance

is linked to the symbol in the Symbols panel or

a symbols library, resulting in smaller le sizes.

And ater you place a symbol, you can edit the

instances and redene the original symbol.

Using blends to animate objects

Illustrator blends are useul i you want to morph

shapes or change colors during the animation.

You can modiy the blends path using drawing

tools to create very intricate movements.

Exporting

I you need to use your le in workows that do not support native Illustrator le ormats, you can export the artwork into many alter-

nate le types, including AutoCAD Drawing (DWG), Flash (SWF), or IFF. Tese ormats are called non-native because Illustrator doesnt

include all o the data necessary to reopen the le in Illustrator. For this reason, it is recommended that you save artwork in AI ormat until

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Illustrator CS4 output or print is reliable and accurate, thanks to eatures such as

transparency attening and overprint preview, whether you are sending your artwork

directly to a printer or exporting as Adobe PDF. You can be condent that your work willprint just as you have created it.

Separations Preview

Deliver reliably to print using Separations Preview to check your colors. Avoid color output

surprises such as unexpected spot colors, unwanted overprinting, overprints that dont

overprint, white overprinting, and CMYK blacks in text and placed les. Te Separations

Preview panel displays a list o spot and process colors; you can choose to display individual

colors or previewing color separations onscreen.

P R I N T I N G

Printing

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Overprint setup

In the Attributes panel, you can set the lls and strokes o elements o your artwork to over-

print when it is separated or proessional printing. Select the object or objects that you want

to overprint, and in the Attributes panel, select Overprint Fill, Overprint Stroke, or both.

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Tip: Ensure all your blacks are the same

and set them all to overprint at once.

Select your black swatch or a black object

and choose Select > Same > Fill Color.

Add to your selection i needed. Then click

Overprint Fill in the Attributes panel. Check

your work using Separations Preview.


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The Print dialog box

Printing your artwork in Illustrator is very similar to using the Advanced Print Settingsin FreeHand. Te Print dialog box lets you click through panes that provide controls

over general settings, document setup, marks and bleeds, output, graphics, and color

management. Click Page Setup to speciy page setup options.

Each category o options in the Print dialog box in Illustratorrom General to Summary

is organized to guide you through the printing process:

GeneralSet the page size and orientation, speciy how many

pages and artboards to print, dene your media, and choose

which layers to print. Scale and change placement o artwork

on the page, and control tiling.

Marks&BleedSelect printers marks and create a bleed.

OutputCreate color separations or choose plates to print.

GraphicsSet printing options or paths, onts, PostScript

les, gradients, meshes, and blends.

ColorManagement Selecta color prole and rendering

intent or printing.

AdvancedControl the attening (rasterization) o vector

artwork during printing.

SummaryView and save a summary o print settings and

warnings about possible output problems.

Toggle to print plate

CMYK plate

Print preview

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Tip: Visit the Adobe Print Resource Center or

a variety o resources that can help you acheive

high-quality print results, quickly and reliably.

http://www.adobe.com/studio/print/index.html.


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Printing multiple artboards and tiled artwork

Illustrator provides maximum exibility in printing pages and artboards: Printallartboardsasseparatepages,choosinganyorallartboards

Printalltheartworktogetherasasinglepagebyignoringartboards

Printartfromasingleartboardthathasbeentiledorscaledtotpages.

By deault, Illustrator prints each artboard on a single sheet o paper, and

you can choose to print all artboards, or a range o artboards. You can also

save multiple artboards to multipage print-ready PDF les.

I your artwork on an artboard is larger than available print page sizes, you

can print onto multiple sheets o paper by tiling the artboard. Choose a

tiling option in the General section o the Print dialog box and view tiling

boundaries on the artboard by choosing View > Show Print iling.

Tip: For more about

fattening, download

A Designers Guide to

Transparency for Print

Outputby visiting

www.adobe.com/

products/creativesuite/

pdfs/dgt.pdf.

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Flattening transparency

ransparent eects in artwork must be attened beore they can be printed. Flattening

divides transparent artwork into vector-based areas and rasterized areas. o see areas thatneed to be attened, choose Window > Flattener Preview, and then click Reresh. o ne-

tune the transparency attening settings or select another preset, choose Show Options rom

the panel menu. Click Reresh again to preview the results. Or, select an object, and then

choose Object > Flatten ransparency.

Illustrator CS4 oers three attening presetsLow, Medium, and High Resolutionso that

you can quickly and easily atten artwork or common print conditions. o edit these

presets or to create your own, choose Edit > ransparency Flattener Presets.

Illustrator allows you to apply very complex transparency eects such as blends and ades,

so drop shadows, and eathered edges to your graphics. Furthermore, you can change the

opacity and apply blending modes to any object in Illustrator. Tanks to the integration

between components in Creative Suite, you can place native transparent Photoshop (PSD)

les into your Illustrator artwork without rasterizing your compositions.

I you are new to native transparency, note

that transparency is attened when you

export a document to a le ormat that

doesnt support native transparency rom

Illustrator, or when you print the document.


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Creating objects (Hold down keys until after releasing the mouse button.)

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Constrains objects horizontally, vertically, or proportionally. Shit Shit

Draws objects rom their centers. Alt Option

Opens dialog boxes with transormation tools. Alt-click Option-click

Turns the cursor into the Hand tool. Spacebar Spacebar

Repositions an object while it is being drawn. Spacebar-drag Spacebar-drag

Maintains star inner radius. Star tool+Ctrl-drag Star tool+Command-drag

Adds/subtracts sides, corner radius, star points, Start drawing, and press Start drawing, andor spiral coils. press the Up or Down Arrow press the Up or Down Arrow

Changes the pointer to a cross hair or selected tools. Caps lock Caps lock

Viewing objects

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Fits active artboard in window. Double-click Hand Double-click Hand

tool or Ctrl+0 tool or Command+0Fits all artboards in window. Ctrl+Alt+0 Command+Option+0

Sets magniication to 100%. Double-click Zoom Double-click Zoomtool or Ctrl+1 tool or Command+1

Turns the cursor into the Zoom-in tool.Click or select an area to zoom in. Ctrl+spacebar Command+spacebar

Turns the cursor into the Zoom-out tool.Click to zoom out. Ctrl+Alt+spacebar Command+Option+spacebar

Locks/unlocks guides. Ctrl+Alt+; Command+Option+;

Illustrator CS4 oers keyboard shortcuts to unctions otherwise available

in menus or panels. You can customize your own sets o shortcuts, change

individual shortcuts within a set, and switch between sets by choosingEdit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

Here are some o the most useul Illustrator CS4 keyboard shortcuts.

K E Y B O A R D S H O R T C U T S

Keyboard Shortcuts


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Selecting and moving objects (Watch the cursor to make sure youve pressed the correct keys.)

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