Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Resources
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customizing the workspace
- Tools
- Tool galleries
- Files and templates
- Manage connections to web services
- Working with ConnectNow
- Using multiple artboards
- Viewing artwork
- Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks
- Setting preferences
- Recovery, undo, and automation
- Chapter 3: Drawing
- Drawing basics
- Drawing simple lines and shapes
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Editing paths
- Select paths, segments, and anchor points
- Adjust path segments
- Move straight segments
- Adjust the length or angle of straight segments
- Adjust the position or shape of curved segments
- Delete a segment
- Extend an open path
- Connect two open paths
- Join two endpoints
- Move or nudge anchor points or segments using the keyboard
- Stretch parts of a path without distorting its overall shape
- Adding and deleting anchor points
- Smooth and simplify paths
- Convert between smooth points and corner points
- Erase artwork
- Split a path
- Tracing artwork with Live Trace
- Symbols
- Symbolism tools and symbol sets
- Drawing flares
- Chapter 4: Color
- About color
- Selecting colors
- Using and creating swatches
- Working with color groups (harmonies)
- About color groups
- Color Guide panel overview
- Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box overview
- Create color groups
- Edit colors in the Edit Colors dialog box
- Save changes to a color group
- Edit a color group using a color wheel
- Reorder colors in a color group
- Edit an individual color in a color group
- Edit colors in a color group using the Color Picker
- Randomly change color order or saturation and brightness
- Globally edit saturation, brightness, temperature, or luminosity
- Add or remove colors in a color group
- Delete a color group
- Assign colors to your artwork
- Reduce colors in your artwork
- Kuler panel
- Adjusting colors
- Shift an out-of-gamut color to a printable color
- Shift a color to a web-safe color
- Blend colors
- Change a color to its inverse or complement
- Change the tint of a color
- Adjust color balance of one or more colors
- Invert multiple colors
- Change the color mode of a document
- Display and output spot colors using Lab values
- Convert colors to grayscale
- Convert grayscale images to RGB or CMYK
- Colorize grayscale or 1-bit images
- Adjust the saturation of multiple colors
- Mix overlapping colors
- Chapter 5: Color management
- Understanding color management
- Keeping colors consistent
- Color-managing imported images
- Color-managing documents for online viewing
- Proofing colors
- Color-managing documents when printing
- Working with color profiles
- About color profiles
- About monitor calibration and characterization
- Calibrate and profile your monitor
- Install a color profile
- Embed a color profile
- Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
- Changing the color profile for a document
- Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to Multichannel, Device Link, or Abstract color profiles (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to another profile
- Color settings
- Chapter 6: Painting
- Painting with fills and strokes
- Painting methods
- About fills and strokes
- Fill and Stroke controls
- Apply a fill color to an object
- Stroke an object
- Draw and merge paths with the Blob Brush tool
- Convert strokes to compound paths
- Add arrowheads to lines
- Remove the fill or stroke from an object
- Select objects with the same fill and stroke
- Create multiple fills and strokes
- Live Paint groups
- Brushes
- Transparency and blending modes
- Gradients
- Meshes
- Patterns
- Painting with fills and strokes
- Chapter 7: Selecting and arranging objects
- Selecting objects
- Options for selecting objects
- Specify selection preferences
- Isolate artwork for editing
- Select objects using the Layers panel
- Select objects with the Selection tool
- Select objects with the Lasso tool
- Select objects with the Magic Wand tool
- Select filled objects
- Select groups and objects in a group
- Select faces and edges in a Live Paint group
- Live Paint Selection tool options
- Select the next object in the stacking order
- Select objects by characteristic
- Repeat or invert a selection
- Save a selection
- Grouping and expanding objects
- Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
- Rotating and reflecting objects
- Using layers
- Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
- Stacking objects
- Duplicating objects
- Selecting objects
- Chapter 8: Reshaping objects
- Transforming objects
- Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
- Reshape using envelopes
- Combining objects
- Cutting and dividing objects
- Clipping masks
- Blending objects
- Reshaping objects with effects
- Creating 3D objects
- Chapter 9: Importing, exporting, and saving
- Importing files
- About linked and embedded artwork
- Place (import) files
- Links panel overview
- View and save metadata via the Links panel
- View file information about linked or embedded artwork
- Update modified links
- Restore a single missing link or replace link with a different source file
- Set placement options for linked artwork
- Embed a linked file
- Unembed or relink an embedded file
- Edit original artwork
- Importing bitmap images
- Importing Adobe PDF files
- Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files
- Importing artwork from Photoshop
- Saving artwork
- Exporting artwork
- Creating Adobe PDF files
- Adobe PDF options
- File information and metadata
- Importing files
- Chapter 10: Type
- Importing text
- Creating text
- Enter text at a point
- Enter text in an area
- Resize a text area
- Change the margin around a text area
- Raise or lower the first baseline in a text area
- Create rows and columns of text
- Fit a headline across the full width of a type area
- Threading text between objects
- Wrap text around an object
- Delete empty type objects from your artwork
- Creating type on a path
- Scaling and rotating type
- Spelling and language dictionaries
- Fonts
- Formatting type
- Selecting type
- Find and replace text
- Change the color and appearance of characters
- Character panel overview
- Underline or strike through text
- Apply all caps and small caps
- Change capitalization styles
- Specify curly or straight quotes
- Set anti-aliasing options for type
- Creating superscripts or subscripts
- Convert type to outlines
- Choose a number style in OpenType fonts
- Format fractions and ordinals in OpenType fonts
- Use smart punctuation
- Line and character spacing
- Special characters
- About character sets and alternate glyphs
- Glyphs panel overview
- Insert or replace a character using the Glyphs panel
- OpenType panel overview
- Highlight alternate glyphs in the text
- Use ligatures and contextual alternates
- Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates
- Show or hide nonprinting characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Hyphenation and line breaks
- Tabs
- Character and paragraph styles
- Exporting text
- Formatting Asian characters
- Display Asian type options
- Set Asian OpenType font attributes
- Replace Asian characters with a different glyph form
- Specify how leading is measured in Asian type
- Rotate half-width characters in vertical text
- Use tate-chu-yoko
- Use aki
- Use warichu
- Use mojisoroe to align Asian characters
- Use mojikumi
- Use kinsoku
- Specify a burasagari option
- Use kurikaeshi moji shori
- Creating composite fonts
- Updating text from Illustrator 10
- Chapter 11: Creating special effects
- Appearance attributes
- About appearance attributes
- Appearance panel overview
- Specify how appearance attributes are applied to new objects
- Targeting items for appearance attributes
- Edit or add an appearance attribute
- Duplicate an appearance attribute
- Change the stacking order of appearance attributes
- Remove or hide appearance attributes
- Copy appearance attributes between objects
- Working with effects
- Summary of effects
- Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
- Creating sketches and mosaics
- Graphic styles
- Appearance attributes
- Chapter 12: Web graphics
- Best practices for creating web graphics
- Slices and image maps
- SVG
- Creating animations
- Optimizing images
- Save For Web & Devices overview
- Optimize an image for the web
- Save or delete optimization presets
- Work with slices in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box
- Compress a web graphic to a specific file size
- Resize artwork while optimizing
- Generate CSS layers for web graphics
- Preview optimized images in a web browser
- Web graphics optimization options
- Web graphic formats
- JPEG optimization options
- GIF and PNG-8 optimization options
- Optimize transparency in GIF and PNG images
- View the color table for an optimized slice
- Customize the color table for GIF and PNG-8 images
- PNG-24 optimization options
- WBMP optimization options
- SWF optimization options (Illustrator)
- SVG optimization options (Illustrator)
- Output settings for web graphics
- Chapter 13: Printing
- Setting up documents for printing
- Printing color separations
- Printer’s marks and bleed
- PostScript printing
- Printing with color management
- Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
- Printing and saving transparent artwork
- About flattening
- File formats that retain transparency
- Set transparency flattening options for printing
- Transparency Flattener options
- Preview which areas of artwork will be flattened
- Flattener Preview panel overview
- About transparency flattener presets
- Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
- Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
- Rename or delete a custom transparency flattener preset
- Flatten transparency for individual objects
- Rasterize all artwork during printing
- Overprinting
- Trapping
- Print presets
- Chapter 14: Automating tasks
- Actions
- Scripts
- Data-driven graphics
- Chapter 15: Graphs
- Creating graphs
- Formatting graphs
- Formatting and customizing graphs
- Change the graph type
- Format a graph’s axes
- Assign different scales to the value axes
- Format columns, bars, and lines
- General graph options
- Add drop shadows
- Change the position of a legend
- Format pie graphs
- Combine different graph types
- Select parts of a graph
- Format the text in a graph
- Adding pictures and symbols to graphs
- Chapter 16: Keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for viewing artwork
- Keys for drawing
- Keys for selecting
- Keys for moving selections
- Keys for editing shapes
- Keys for painting objects
- Keys for working with Live Paint groups
- Keys for transforming objects
- Keys for working with type
- Keys for using panels
- Keys for the Actions panel
- Keys for the Brushes panel
- Keys for the Character and Paragraph panels
- Keys for the Color panel
- Keys for the Gradient panel
- Keys for the Layers panel
- Keys for the Swatches panel
- Keys for the Transform panel
- Keys for the Transparency panel
- Function keys
- Index