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Web graphics
Last updated 6/5/2015
Show or hide slices
• To hide slices in the illustration window, choose View > Hide Slices.
• To hide slices in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box, click the Toggle Slices Visibility button .
• To hide slice numbers and change the color of slice lines, choose Edit > Preferences > Smart Guides & Slices
(Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Smart Guides & Slices (Mac OS).
Create image maps
Image maps enable you to link one or more areas of an image—called hotspots—to a URL. When a user clicks on the
hotspot, the web browser loads the linked file.
The main difference between using image maps and using slices to create links is in how the artwork is exported as a
web page. Using image maps keeps the artwork intact as a single image file, while using slices causes the artwork to be
divided into separate files. Another difference between image maps and slices is that image maps enable you to link
polygonal or rectangular areas in your artwork, while slices enable you to link only rectangular areas. If you need to link
only rectangular areas, using slices may be preferable to using an image map.
Note: To avoid unexpected results, don’t create image-map hotspots in slices that contain URL links—either the image map
links or the slice links may be ignored in some browsers.
1 Select the object that you want to link to a URL.
2 In the Attributes panel, select a shape for the image map from the Image Map menu.
3 Enter a relative or full URL in the URL text box, or select from the list of available URLs. You can verify the URL
location by clicking the Browser button.
To increase the number of visible entries in the URL menu, select panel Options from the Attributes panel menu.
Enter a value from 1 to 30 to define how many URL entries you want to be displayed in the URL list.
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Best practices for creating web graphics
SVG
About SVG
Bitmap image formats for the web—GIF, JPEG, WBMP, and PNG—describe images using a grid of pixels. The resulting
files tend to be bulky, limited to a single (often low) resolution, and consume large amounts of bandwidth on the web.
SVG, on the other hand, is a vector format that describes images as shapes, paths, text, and filter effects. The resulting
files are compact and provide high-quality graphics on the web, in print, and even on resource-constrained, handheld
devices. Users can magnify their view of an SVG image on-screen without sacrificing sharpness, detail, or clarity. In
addition, SVG provides superior support for text and colors, which ensures that users will see images as they appear on
your Illustrator artboard.
The SVG format is entirely XML-based and offers many advantages to developers and users alike. With SVG, you can
use XML and JavaScript to create web graphics that respond to user actions with sophisticated effects such as
highlighting, tool tips, audio, and animation.