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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Index
Photoshop. See Adobe Photoshop
picas
47
PICT file format
See also exporting artwork
about
274
flattening
421
picture clippings, dragging to desktop
222
pie graphs
See also graph designs, graphs
about
28
entering data for
452
formatting
456
Pixel Preview mode
45, 371
Pixelate effects
360
pixels, about
261
Place command
about
257
Adobe Photoshop files
266
DCS files
265
EPS files
264
PDF files
263
Plaster command
361
Plastic Wrap command
358
Playback Options command
439
plug-ins
51
in Adobe Store
4
PNG file formats
279
See also Illustrator Help
PNG-24 file format
optimization options
398
PNG-8 file format
optimization options
390
point size
309
point type
294
creating
294
pointer
22
Pointillize command
361
points
measuring distance between
50
on a path, types of
54
as a unit of measurement
47
Polar Grid tool
23, 60
Polygon tool
23, 58
Portable Document Format (PDF). See PDF
files
portrait (vertical) page orientation
407
positive film
412
postcard templates
33
Poster Edges command
358
PostScript file format
270
PPD files
about
414
for imagesetters
408
and page size
407
versions
414
preferences
See also specific preferences categories
about
51
anchor point
56
direction points and lines
56
restoring
51
selection
198, 202
presets
See also libraries
for converting files
283
flattening
426
PDF
284
PDF export
283
printer
433
tracing
80
transparency flattener
423
press bleed
413
Press Quality, PDF presets
283
previewing
artwork in output medium
45
color separations
410
colors. See soft-proofing
EPS files
265
overprinting
410
Preview command
44
print bounding box
39
Print command
404
Print new document profile
30
printable area
37
printable colors
125
printer resolution
408
printer styles
433
printer’s marks
412
printer-resident fonts
415
printers, selecting PPD file for
414
printing
See also color separations
as bitmap
427
bleed
413
color blends
418
color management considerations
141
composites
404
continuous-tone images
409
curves
415
effects
356
embedded EPS images
265
file and error information
292
gradients
187, 418
limit-check error
415
making artwork nonprintable
405
multiple artboards
406
multiple pages
42
objects on all plates
412
on multiple pages
406
oversized documents
408
PostScript level
416
transparent artwork
421
process colors
See also color matching systems
about
98, 409
and blended objects
245
color management considerations
135
creating swatches for
103, 107
global
103
tints
126
tips for using
98
using with spot colors
99
Proof Setup command
139
Proximity language dictionaries
306
proxy view area
44
Pucker & Bloat effect
248
Pucker tool
26
punctuation
hanging
326
smart
317
Q
Q (unit)
47
quotation marks
curly or straight
314
smart
317
R
radar graphs
See also graph designs, graphs
about
28
entering data for
452
Radial Blur command
359
raster images. See bitmap images
rasterization
improving performance
356
of artwork during printing
427
of type
314
of vector graphics
273