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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Index
painting
See also colors, fills, Live Paint, strokes
about
153
tools for
25
painting order. See stacking order
Palette Knife command
358
palettes
See also panels
panel menu, displaying
12
panels
See also palettes
about
10
calculating values in
14
collapsing to icons
18
docking
16
entering values
grouping
17
moving
17
showing and hiding
12
stacking
17
PANTONE color system
105
paper stretch, during printing
430
paragraph styles
332, 333
Paragraph Styles panel
about
332
paragraphs
hyphenation
327, 328
indenting
325
Paragraph panel
323
spacing between
326
styles for
332, 333
word and letter spacing
324
passwords, in PDFs
290
Patchwork command
362
Path Eraser tool
74
path segments
nudging
70
Path Type tool
25
Pathfinder effects
about
234
applying
235
options for
234
Pathfinder panel
233
summary of
235
paths
See also anchor points, lines, shapes,
clipping paths
about
53
adding to
61
adjusting angle and length
68
adjusting segments
68
brushed
171
closing
63, 65
combining
69
compound
233, 238
connecting
61, 70
copying
68
copying segment of
68
copying to and from Photoshop
222, 267
curved segments
54, 65
deleting
69
direction lines and points on
54
drawing, with Pen tool
63, 65, 66
drawing, with Pencil tool
61
joining and splitting
76, 415
leaving open
65
merging
157
moving
68
reshaping
53, 62, 69
selecting
68
self-intersecting
239
smoothing and simplifying
72
splitting
76
straight segments
54, 65
SVG file format and
379
viewing without fills and strokes
44
wavy and Zig Zag
248
pattern dither
393
patterns
about
191
and blended objects
245
applying to objects
155
bounding box for
191
brushes
169, 175
corner tiles
195
creating
191, 192
expanding
206
irregular
193
modifying
196
preferences
225
rotating
208, 212
scaling
227
seamless
192
shearing
229
swatches for
103
SWF (Flash) files and
382
tiling
191
transforming
225
PDF conversion settings
283
PDF files
artboards
282
bleed
287
compared to other formats
267
compliance with PDF/X standard
285
compression
286
downsampling
286
exporting
281
flattening transparency
289
importing
263
non-native art in
264
overprinting
289
placement options
263
presets
284
saving, general
282
saving, with layers
282
saving, with multiple pages
282
security
290
transparency in
421
PDF presets
about
283
creating
283
PDF/X-compliant files
color management considerations
142
creating
282
options
288
standards
285
PDFs
color management considerations
138,
142
Pen tool
about
23
drawing curves
63, 67
drawing curves and lines
65, 66
drawing straight lines
63
measuring coordinates with
50
switching to Add or Delete Anchor Point
tool
72
Pencil tool
about
60
adding to paths
61
connecting paths
61
drawing with
61
options for
62
reshaping paths
62
performance, improving
356
permissions passwords
in PDFs
290
Persistent command
105
Photocopy command
361