Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual

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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4

Reshaping objects

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To select which object surface you want to map, click the first

, previous

, next

, and last

Surface

arrow buttons, or enter a surface number in the text box.

A light gray color marks surfaces that are currently visible. A dark gray color marks surfaces that are hidden by the
object’s current position. When a surface is selected in the dialog box, the selected surface is outlined in red in the
document window.

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Do any of the following:

To move the symbol, position the pointer inside the bounding box and drag; to scale, drag a side or corner handle;
to rotate, drag outside and near a bounding box handle.

To make the mapped artwork fit to the boundaries of the selected surface, click Scale To Fit.

To remove artwork from a single surface, select the surface using the Surface options, and then either choose None
from the Symbol menu or click Clear.

To remove all maps from all of the 3D object’s surfaces, click Clear All.

To shade and apply the object’s lighting to the mapped artwork, select Shade Artwork.

To show only the artwork map, not the geometry of a 3D object, select Invisible Geometry. This is useful when you
want to use the 3D mapping feature as a three-dimensional warping tool. For example, you could use this option
to map text to the side of an extruded wavy line, so that the text appears warped as if on a flag.

To preview the effect, select Preview.

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Click

OK in the Map Artwork dialog box.

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