Document Outline

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Resources
  • Activation and registration
    • Help with installation
    • License activation
    • Register
    • Adobe Product Improvement Program
    • ReadMe
  • Help and support
    • Community Help
    • Product Help
    • Printed resources
    • Support resources
  • Services, downloads, and extras
    • Adobe creative on-line services
    • Adobe Exchange
    • Adobe downloads
    • Adobe Labs
    • Adobe TV
    • Extras
  • Illustrator video tutorials
  • What’s new
    • Enriched workspace tools
    • New drawing and color tools
    • Improved access to core functionality
    • Enhanced integration at export
• Chapter 2: Workspace
  • Workspace basics
    • Workspace overview
      • Hide or show all panels
      • Display panel options
      • (Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness
      • Reconfigure the Tools panel
    • Search For Help box
    • About screen modes
    • Using the status bar
    • Enter values in panels and dialog boxes
      • Enter a value in a panel or dialog box
      • Calculate values in a panel or dialog box
    • Control panel overview
      • Change the kinds of controls that appear in the Control panel
      • Open and close a panel or dialog box from the Control panel
      • Dock the Control panel at the bottom of the workspace
      • Convert the Control panel to a floating panel
  • Customizing the workspace
    • Manage windows and panels
      • Manage Document windows
      • Dock and undock panels
      • Move panels
      • Add and remove panels
      • Manipulate panel groups
      • Stack floating panels
      • Resize panels
      • Manipulate panels collapsed to icons
      • Restore the default workspace
    • Rename or duplicate a workspace
    • Save and switch workspaces
      • Save a custom workspace
      • Display or switch workspaces
      • Delete a custom workspace
      • (Photoshop) Start with the last or default panel locations
  • Tools
    • Tools panel overview
      • View hidden tools
      • View tool options
      • Move the Tools panel
      • Hide the Tools panel
      • Tear off hidden tools into a separate panel
      • Close a separate tool panel
    • Select a tool
    • Change tool pointers
  • Tool galleries
    • Selection tool gallery
    • Drawing tool gallery
    • Type tool gallery
    • Painting tool gallery
    • Reshaping tool gallery
    • Symbolism tool gallery
    • Graph tool gallery
    • Slicing and cutting tool gallery
    • Moving and zooming tool gallery
  • Files and templates
    • About new document profiles
    • Create new documents
      • Create a new document
      • Create a new document from a template
    • About templates
    • Create a new template
    • Specify document setup options
    • Open a file
    • Browse for files using Adobe Bridge
    • Adobe Version Cue
  • Manage connections to web services
    • Log into Adobe web services
    • Disable automatic extension updates
    • Manually check for updated extensions
    • Disable web services
  • Working with ConnectNow
    • Working with ConnectNow
  • Using multiple artboards
    • Artboard overview
    • Artboard options
    • Create an artboard
    • Delete an artboard
    • Select and view artboards
    • Edit artboards
    • Move an artboard
    • Display artboard rulers, center mark, crosshairs, or safe area
      • Show or hide artboard rulers
      • Display center mark, cross hairs, or video safe areas
  • Viewing artwork
    • Specify Document Setup options
    • About print tiling
    • Zoom in or out
    • Change the view area
    • Navigator panel overview
    • View artwork as outlines
    • Use multiple windows and views
      • Create a new window
      • Create a new view
      • Rename or delete a view
      • Switch between views
    • Previewing artwork in its final output medium
  • Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks
    • Use rulers
    • Change the unit of measurement
    • Use the grid
    • Use guides
      • Create guides
      • Move, delete, or release guides
      • Snap objects to anchor points and guides
    • Smart Guides
      • Use Smart Guides
      • Smart Guide preferences
    • Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning
      • Create crop marks around an object
      • Delete crop marks
      • Use Japanese-style crop marks
    • Measure the distance between objects
    • Info panel overview
  • Setting preferences
    • About preferences
      • Open a preferences dialog box
      • Reset all preferences to default settings
    • About plug-in modules
  • Recovery, undo, and automation
    • Undo and redo changes
    • Revert to the last saved version
    • Automating tasks
• Chapter 3: Drawing
  • Drawing basics
    • About vector graphics
    • About paths
    • About direction lines and direction points
    • Specify direction line and direction point appearance
      • Show or hide direction lines for selected anchor points
      • Set direction point and direction line display preferences
    • Specify anchor point size preferences
  • Drawing simple lines and shapes
    • Draw straight lines with the Line Segment tool
    • Draw rectangles and squares
    • Specify the corner radius of a rounded rectangle
    • Draw ellipses
    • Draw polygons
    • Draw stars
    • Draw arcs
    • Draw spirals
    • Draw grids
      • Draw rectangular grids
      • Draw circular (polar) grids
  • Drawing with the Pencil tool
    • Draw with the Pencil tool
      • Draw freeform paths with the Pencil tool
      • Draw closed paths with the Pencil tool
    • Edit paths with the Pencil tool
      • Add to a path with the Pencil tool
      • Connect two paths with the Pencil tool
      • Reshape paths with the Pencil tool
    • Pencil tool options
  • Drawing with the Pen tool
    • Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
    • Draw curves with the Pen tool
    • Reposition anchor points as you draw
    • Finish drawing a path
    • Draw straight lines followed by curves
    • Draw curves followed by straight lines
    • Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
  • Editing paths
    • Select paths, segments, and anchor points
      • Select anchor points
      • Select path segments
      • Select all anchor points and segments in a path
      • Copy a path
    • 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
      • Add or delete anchor points
      • Find and delete stray anchor points
      • Disable or temporarily override automatic Pen tool switching
    • Smooth and simplify paths
      • Smooth paths
      • Simplify paths
      • Average the position of anchor points
    • Convert between smooth points and corner points
      • Convert one or more anchor points using the Control panel
      • Convert an anchor point precisely using the Convert Anchor Point tool
    • Erase artwork
      • Erase part of a path using the Path Eraser tool
      • Erase objects using the Eraser tool
      • Erase objects using a Wacom stylus pen eraser
      • Eraser tool options
    • Split a path
  • Tracing artwork with Live Trace
    • Trace artwork
      • Automatically trace artwork using Live Trace
      • Manually trace artwork using template layers
    • Tracing options
    • Change the display of a tracing object
    • Adjust the results of a tracing
    • Specify the colors used for tracing
    • Use a tracing preset
      • Specify a preset
      • Edit or delete a preset
      • Share presets with other users
    • Convert a tracing object to a Live Paint object
    • Release a tracing object
  • Symbols
    • About symbols
    • Symbols panel overview
      • Change the display of symbols in the panel
      • Duplicate a symbol in the panel
      • Rename a symbol
    • Place a symbol
    • Create a symbol
    • Use 9-slice scaling
      • Enable 9-slice scaling
      • Edit the 9-slice scaling grid for a symbol
    • Work with symbol instances
      • Modify a symbol instance
      • Expand a symbol instance
      • Duplicate a symbol instance on the artboard
      • Replace a symbol instance with a different symbol
      • Select all instances of a symbol in the document
    • Edit or redefine a symbol
      • Edit a symbol
      • Redefine a symbol with different artwork
    • Symbol libraries
      • Open symbol libraries
      • Move symbols from a library into the Symbols panel
      • Create symbol libraries
      • Import a symbol library from another document
  • Symbolism tools and symbol sets
    • About symbol sets
    • Create symbol sets
      • Spray sets of symbol instances onto artwork
      • Add or delete symbol instances from an existing set
    • Modify symbol instances in a symbol set
      • Change stacking order of symbol instances in a set
      • Gather or scatter symbol instances
      • Resize symbol instances
      • Rotate symbol instances
      • Stain symbol instances
      • Adjust transparency of symbol instances
      • Apply a graphic style to symbol instances
    • Symbolism tool options
  • Drawing flares
    • Create a flare
      • Create a default flare
      • Draw a flare
      • Create a flare using the Flare Tool Options dialog box
    • Edit a flare
• Chapter 4: Color
  • About color
    • About colors in digital graphics
    • RGB
    • CMYK
    • HSB
    • Lab
    • Grayscale
    • Color spaces and gamuts
    • About spot and process colors
    • About spot colors
    • About process colors
    • Using spot and process colors together
    • Comparing colors in InDesign and Illustrator
  • Selecting colors
    • About selecting colors
    • Color Picker overview
      • Display the Color Picker
      • Change the color spectrum displayed in the Color Picker
      • Display only web-safe colors
      • View color swatches instead of the color spectrum
    • Select colors using the Color Picker
    • Color panel overview
      • Change the color model
      • Show all options in the panel
    • Select colors using the Color panel
  • Using and creating swatches
    • About swatches
    • Swatches panel overview
      • Change the display of swatches
      • Show a specific type of swatch and hide all others
      • Select all swatches that aren’t used in artwork
      • Select a color group
      • Select a swatch by name
      • Move swatches into a color group
      • Change the order of swatches
    • Use swatch libraries
      • Open a swatch library
      • Create a swatch library
      • Edit a swatch library
      • Move swatches from a swatch library to the Swatches panel
    • Add colors from artwork to Swatches panel
      • Add all document colors
      • Add colors from selected artwork
    • Share swatches between applications
    • Import swatches from another document
    • Create color swatches
      • Create a process color swatch
      • Create gradient swatches
      • Create spot-color swatches
      • Create a swatch from the Color Guide panel
    • Manage swatches
      • Duplicate swatches
      • Group swatches
      • Replace, merge, or delete swatches
      • Swatch options
  • Working with color groups (harmonies)
    • About color groups
    • Color Guide panel overview
      • Specify the type of color variations that appear in the panel
      • Specify the number and range of color variations that appear in the panel
    • Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box overview
      • Open the Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box
      • Work with the Color Group list
    • Create color groups
      • Create a color group in the Color Guide panel
      • Create a color group in the Edit Colors dialog box
    • 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
      • Assign new colors to selected artwork
      • Randomly change saturation and brightness in all colors
      • View original colors in your artwork as you assign new colors
    • Reduce colors in your artwork
      • Quickly reduce colors using a preset
      • Reduce colors using custom options
  • Kuler panel
    • About Kuler
    • View and use themes
      • Search and view themes
      • View a theme online on Kuler
      • Saving frequent searches
      • Add a theme to the Swatches panel in Illustrator
      • Upload your theme to Kuler community
  • 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
      • Mix colors using the Hard Mix effect
      • Mix colors using the Soft Mix effect
• Chapter 5: Color management
  • Understanding color management
    • Why colors sometimes don’t match
    • What is a color management system?
    • Do you need color management?
    • Creating a viewing environment for color management
  • Keeping colors consistent
    • About color management in Adobe applications
    • Basic steps for producing consistent color
    • Synchronize color settings across Adobe applications
    • Set up color management
    • Change the appearance of CMYK black (Illustrator, InDesign)
    • Managing process and spot colors
  • Color-managing imported images
    • Color-managing imported images (Illustrator, InDesign)
    • Using a safe CMYK workflow
    • Preparing imported graphics for color management
    • View or change profiles for imported bitmap images (InDesign)
  • Color-managing documents for online viewing
    • Color-managing documents for online viewing
    • Color-managing PDFs for online viewing
    • Color-managing HTML documents for online viewing
  • Proofing colors
    • About soft-proofing colors
    • Soft-proof colors
      • Soft-proof presets
      • Custom soft-proof options
      • Soft-proof for color blindness (Photoshop and Illustrator)
    • Save or load a custom proof setup
    • Soft-proof colors (Acrobat)
  • Color-managing documents when printing
    • Printing with color management
    • Letting the printer determine colors when printing
    • Letting the application determine colors when printing
    • Obtaining custom profiles for desktop printers
    • Color-managing PDFs for 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
    • Customize color settings
    • About color working spaces
    • Working space options
    • About missing and mismatched color profiles
    • Color management policy options
    • Color conversion options
    • About rendering intents
    • Advanced controls in Photoshop
• 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
      • Apply a stroke color, width, or alignment
      • Create dotted or dashed lines
      • Change the caps or joins of a line
    • Draw and merge paths with the Blob Brush tool
      • Blob Brush tool guidelines
      • Create merged paths
      • Blob Brush tool options
    • 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
    • About Live Paint
    • Live Paint limitations
    • Create Live Paint groups
      • Create a Live Paint group
      • Convert objects to Live Paint groups
    • Expand or release a Live Paint group
    • Select items in Live Paint groups
      • Select faces and edges
      • Select a Live Paint group
      • Select an original path within a Live Paint group
      • Isolate a Live Paint group from the rest of the artwork
    • Modify Live Paint groups
      • Add paths to a Live Paint group
      • Resize an individual object or path
    • Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool
      • Live Paint Bucket options
    • Close gaps in Live Paint groups
      • Highlight gaps in a Live Paint group
      • Set Live Paint gap options
      • Gap rules for merged Live Paint groups
  • Brushes
    • About brushes
    • Brushes panel overview
      • Show or hide a type of brush
      • Change the view of brushes
      • Change the order of brushes in the Brushes panel
      • Duplicate a brush in the Brushes panel
      • Delete the brushes from the Brushes panel
    • Work with brush libraries
      • Copy brushes from a brush library to the Brushes panel
      • Import brushes into the Brushes panel from another file
      • Create new brush libraries
    • Apply brush strokes
    • Draw paths and apply brush strokes simultaneously
    • Paintbrush tool options
    • Remove brush strokes
    • Convert brush strokes to outlines
    • Create or modify brushes
      • Create a brush
      • Modify a brush
    • Brush options
      • Calligraphic brush options
      • Colorization options for scatter, art, and pattern brushes
      • Scatter brush options
      • Art brush options
      • Pattern brush options
  • Transparency and blending modes
    • About transparency
    • Transparency panel overview
      • Show all options in the Transparency panel
      • Show a thumbnail of the selected object in the Transparency panel
    • View transparency in artwork
    • Change the opacity of artwork
    • Create a transparency knockout group
    • Use opacity masks to create transparency
      • Create an opacity mask
      • Convert an existing object into an opacity mask
      • Edit a masking object
      • Unlink or relink an opacity mask
      • Deactivate or reactivate an opacity mask
      • Remove an opacity mask
      • Clip or invert an opacity mask
    • Use transparency to shape a knockout
    • About blending modes
    • Change the blending mode of artwork
  • Gradients
    • Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview
    • Apply or edit a gradient
      • Apply a gradient to an object
      • Create an elliptical gradient
      • Modify the colors in a gradient
      • Apply a gradient across multiple objects
      • Change gradient direction, radius, or origin
  • Meshes
    • Create mesh objects
      • Create a mesh object with an irregular pattern of mesh points
      • Create a mesh object with a regular pattern of mesh points
      • Convert a gradient-filled object to a mesh object
      • Convert a mesh object back to a path object
    • Edit mesh objects
  • Patterns
    • About patterns
    • Guidelines for constructing pattern tiles
    • Create pattern swatches
    • Create seamless geometric patterns
    • Construct irregularly textured patterns
    • Create corner tiles for brush patterns
    • Modify patterns
• Chapter 7: Selecting and arranging objects
  • Selecting objects
    • Options for selecting objects
    • Specify selection preferences
    • Isolate artwork for editing
      • Isolate a path, object, or group
      • Isolate a path inside a group
      • Isolate a layer or sublayer
      • Exit isolation mode
    • 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 objects based on fill color with the Magic Wand tool
      • Customize the Magic Wand tool
    • Select filled objects
    • Select groups and objects in a group
      • Select one or more groups with the Selection tool
      • Select objects and groups within groups with the Selection tool
      • Select a single object within a group
      • Select objects and groups with the Group Selection tool
    • 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
    • Group or ungroup objects
    • Expand objects
  • Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
    • Move objects
      • Move or duplicate an object by pasting
      • Move an object by dragging
      • Move an object using the arrow keys
      • Move an object by a specific distance
      • Move an object using x and y coordinates
      • Move multiple objects at once
    • Paste an object relative to other objects
    • Pasting objects between layers
    • Align and distribute objects
      • Align or distribute relative to the bounding box of all selected objects
      • Align or distribute relative to one anchor point
      • Align or distribute relative to a key object
      • Align or distribute relative to an artboard
      • Distribute objects by specific amounts
  • Rotating and reflecting objects
    • Rotate objects
      • Rotate an object using the bounding box
      • Rotate an object with the Free Transform tool
      • Rotate an object with the Rotate tool
      • Rotate an object by a specific angle
      • Rotate an object with the Transform panel
      • Rotate multiple objects individually
    • Rotate the x and y axes of a document
    • Reflect or flip objects
      • Reflect an object with the Free Transform tool
      • Reflect an object with the Reflect tool
      • Reflect by specifying an axis
  • Using layers
    • About layers
    • Layers panel overview
      • Change the display of the Layers panel
      • Set layer and sublayer options
    • Create a new layer
    • Move an object to a different layer
    • Release items to separate layers
    • Consolidate layers and groups
    • Locate an item in the Layers panel
  • Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
    • Lock or unlock objects or layers
    • Hide or show objects or layers
    • Delete objects
  • Stacking objects
    • Specify where to add new objects in the stacking order
    • Change the stacking order using the Layers panel
    • Change the stacking order using commands
  • Duplicating objects
    • Duplicate objects by dragging
    • Duplicate objects by using the Layers panel
    • Duplicate selections using drag and drop
      • Drag and drop artwork into a Photoshop document
      • Drag and drop artwork from Photoshop into Illustrator
      • Drag and drop artwork to the desktop (Mac OS only)
    • Offset duplicate objects
      • Offset objects using the Offset Path command
      • Offset objects using the Offset Path effect
      • Offset objects using keyboard
• Chapter 8: Reshaping objects
  • Transforming objects
    • Transforming
    • Transform panel overview
    • Transform an object’s patterns
    • Transform using the bounding box
  • Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
    • Scale objects
      • Scale objects with the Scale tool
      • Scale objects with the bounding box
      • Scale objects to a specific width and height
      • Scale objects by a specific percentage
      • Scale multiple objects
    • Shear objects
      • Shear objects with the Shear tool
      • Shear objects with the Shear command
      • Shear objects with the Free Transform tool
      • Shear objects with the Transform panel
    • Distort objects
      • Distort objects with the Free Transform tool
      • Distort objects using a liquify tool
  • Reshape using envelopes
    • About envelopes
    • Distort objects using an envelope
    • Edit the contents of an envelope
    • Reset an envelope
    • Remove an envelope
    • Envelope options
  • Combining objects
    • Methods of combining objects
    • Pathfinder panel overview
    • Pathfinder options
    • Apply Pathfinder effects
      • Apply a Pathfinder effect using the Effects menu
      • Apply a Pathfinder effect using the Pathfinder panel
      • Summary of Pathfinder effects
    • About compound shapes
    • Work with compound shapes
      • Create a compound shape
      • Modify a compound shape
      • Release and expand a compound shape
      • Move compound shapes between Illustrator and Photoshop
    • About compound paths
    • Cut a hole in an object using a compound path
    • Apply fill rules to compound paths
      • Change the fill rule for a compound path
      • Change a hole in a compound path to a filled area
    • Return a compound path to its original components
  • Cutting and dividing objects
    • Methods for cutting, dividing, and trimming objects
    • Cut objects with the Divide Objects Below command
    • Cut objects with the Knife tool
    • Divide an object into a grid
  • Clipping masks
    • About clipping masks
    • Hide parts of objects with a clipping mask
    • Create a clipping mask for a group or layer
    • Edit a clipping mask
    • Edit paths within a clipping set
    • Add or remove an object from masked artwork
    • Release objects from a clipping mask
  • Blending objects
    • About blended objects
    • Create blends
      • Create a blend with the Blend tool
      • Create a blend with the Make Blend command
    • Blend options
    • Change the spine of a blended object
    • Reverse the stacking order in a blended object
    • Release or expand a blended object
  • Reshaping objects with effects
    • Reshaping objects with effects
    • Round the corners of objects
  • Creating 3D objects
    • Create 3D objects
      • Create a 3D object by extruding
      • Create a 3D object by revolving
    • Set 3D rotation position options
    • Extrude & Bevel options
    • Revolve options
    • Surface shading options
    • Lighting options
    • Add a custom bevel path
    • Rotate an object in three dimensions
    • Map artwork to a 3D object
• Chapter 9: Importing, exporting, and saving
  • Importing files
    • About linked and embedded artwork
    • Place (import) files
    • Links panel overview
      • File status options for the Links panel
      • Work with the Links panel
    • 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
    • About bitmap images
    • Image resolution guidelines for final output
  • Importing Adobe PDF files
    • Importing Adobe PDF files
    • Adobe PDF placement options
    • Importing monotone, duotone, and tritone images from Adobe PDF files
  • Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files
    • Importing EPS files
    • Importing DCS files
    • Importing AutoCAD files
  • Importing artwork from Photoshop
    • Importing artwork from Photoshop
    • Photoshop import options
    • Move part of an image from Photoshop to Illustrator
    • Move paths from Photoshop to Illustrator
  • Saving artwork
    • About saving artwork
    • Save in Illustrator format
    • Save in EPS format
    • Save in FXG format
    • Save in SVG format
    • Save artwork for Microsoft Office
    • Changing vector graphics to bitmap images
      • About rasterization
      • Rasterize a vector object
  • Exporting artwork
    • Export artwork
    • File formats for exporting artwork
    • AutoCAD export options
    • Flash export options
    • JPEG export options
    • Photoshop export options
    • PNG export options
    • TIFF export options
  • Creating Adobe PDF files
    • About Adobe PDF
    • Create Adobe PDF files
      • Create an Adobe PDF
      • Create a multiple-page Adobe PDF
      • Create a layered Adobe PDF
      • Create an Adobe PDF/X-compliant file
    • Adobe PDF presets
    • Customize PDF presets
    • Load PDF presets
  • Adobe PDF options
    • Setting Adobe PDF options
    • About PDF/X standards
    • General options for PDF
    • Compression and downsampling options for PDF
    • Mark and bleed options for PDF
    • Color management and PDF/X options for PDF
    • Font and flattening options for PDF
    • Adding security to PDF files
    • Security options
  • File information and metadata
    • About metadata
    • Document Info panel overview
• Chapter 10: Type
  • Importing text
    • Import text into a new file
    • Import text into an existing file
  • 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
      • Thread text
      • Remove or break threads
    • Wrap text around an object
      • Wrap text
      • Set wrap options
      • Unwrap text from an object
    • Delete empty type objects from your artwork
  • Creating type on a path
    • Enter text on a path
    • Move or flip text along a path
    • Apply effects to type on a path
    • Adjust the vertical alignment of type on a path
    • Adjust character spacing around sharp turns
  • Scaling and rotating type
    • Selecting type for transformations
    • Adjust the scale of type
    • Rotate type
  • Spelling and language dictionaries
    • Check spelling
    • Edit the spelling dictionary
    • Assign languages to text
      • Apply a language to all text
      • Assign a language to selected text
    • About Unicode
  • Fonts
    • About fonts
    • OpenType fonts
    • Previewing fonts
    • Select a font family and style
    • Specify a typeface size
    • Find and replace fonts
    • Work with missing fonts
  • Formatting type
    • Selecting type
      • Select characters
      • Select type objects
      • Select a type path
    • 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
      • Create superscripts or subscripts in regular fonts
      • Create superscripts or subscripts in OpenType fonts
      • Change the size and position of 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
    • Set the leading
    • Shift the baseline
    • Kern and track
      • Adjust kerning
      • Adjust tracking
    • Turn fractional character widths off or on
  • 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
    • Paragraph panel overview
    • Align text
    • Justify text
    • Adjust word and letterspacing in justified text
    • Indent text
      • Set indents using the Paragraph panel
      • Set an indent using the Tabs panel
      • Create a hanging indent
    • Adjust paragraph spacing
    • Hanging punctuation
  • Hyphenation and line breaks
    • Adjust hyphenation automatically
    • Use the hyphenation dictionary
    • Prevent words from breaking
    • Composition methods
  • Tabs
    • Tabs panel overview
      • Align the Tabs panel with a selected type object
      • Snap tab stops to the ruler units
      • Change the units of measure for the tab ruler
    • Set tabs
    • Repeat tabs
    • Move tabs
    • Remove tabs
    • Specify characters for decimal tabs
    • Add tab leaders
  • Character and paragraph styles
    • About character and paragraph styles
    • Create character or paragraph styles
    • Edit character or paragraph styles
    • Remove style overrides
    • Delete character or paragraph styles
    • Load character and paragraph styles from another Illustrator document
  • Exporting text
    • Export text to a text file
    • Tag text for export to Flash
  • 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
      • Select a mojikumi set for a paragraph
      • Create a mojikumi set
      • Work with mojikumi sets
    • Use kinsoku
      • Select kinsoku settings for a paragraph
      • Create a kinsoku set
      • Use kinsoku sets
      • Specify a kinsoku line-breaking option
      • Set bunri-kinshi on and off
    • Specify a burasagari option
    • Use kurikaeshi moji shori
  • Creating composite fonts
    • Create a composite font
      • Categories of characters in composite fonts
      • Font attributes for composite fonts
    • Customize characters in a composite font
    • Delete a composite font
    • Export a composite font
  • Updating text from Illustrator 10
    • Updating type created in Illustrator 10
    • Update all legacy text in a document
    • Update selected legacy text
• Chapter 11: Creating special effects
  • Appearance attributes
    • About appearance attributes
    • Appearance panel overview
      • Reveal additional items in the Appearance panel
      • List character attributes for a text object in the Appearance panel
      • Turn an attribute on or off for selected object
      • Edit an attribute
      • Show or hide thumbnails in the Appearance panel
    • 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
      • Copy appearance attributes by dragging
      • Copy appearance attributes using the Eyedropper tool
      • Copy attributes from the desktop using the Eyedropper tool
      • Specify which attributes you can copy with the Eyedropper tool
  • Working with effects
    • About effects
    • Apply an effect
    • About raster effects
    • Rasterization options
    • Applying effects to bitmap images
    • Improving performance for effects
    • Modify or delete an effect
  • Summary of effects
    • Effects quick reference
    • Artistic effects
    • Blur effects
    • Brush Strokes effects
    • Distort effects (bottom of menu)
    • Pixelate effects
    • Sharpen effect
    • Sketch effects
    • Stylize effect (bottom of menu)
    • Texture effects
    • Video effects
    • Use texture and glass surface controls
  • Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
    • Create a drop shadow
    • Apply an inner or outer glow
    • Feather the edges of an object
  • Creating sketches and mosaics
    • Create a sketch using the Scribble effect
    • Create a mosaic
  • Graphic styles
    • About graphic styles
    • Graphic Styles panel overview
      • Change how graphic styles are listed in the panel
    • Create graphic styles
      • Create a graphic style
      • Create a graphic style based on two or more existing graphic styles
      • Duplicate a graphic style
    • Apply a graphic style
    • Use graphic style libraries
      • Open a graphic style library
      • Create a graphic style library
      • Move graphic styles from a library to the Graphic Styles panel
    • Work with graphic styles
      • Rename a graphic style
      • Delete a graphic style
      • Break the link to a graphic style
      • Replace graphic style attributes
    • Import all graphic styles from another document
• Chapter 12: Web graphics
  • Best practices for creating web graphics
    • About web graphics
    • About pixel preview mode
    • Using Adobe Device Central with Illustrator
      • Access Illustrator from Adobe Device Central
      • Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Illustrator
      • Tips for creating Illustrator images for mobile devices
  • Slices and image maps
    • About slices
    • Create slices
    • Select slices
    • Set slice options
    • Lock slices
    • Adjust slice boundaries
    • Remove slices
    • Show or hide slices
    • Create image maps
  • SVG
    • About SVG
    • Apply SVG effects
    • Import effects from an SVG file
    • SVG Interactivity panel overview
      • Delete an event from the SVG Interactivity panel
      • List, add, or remove events linked to a file
    • Add SVG interactivity to artwork
    • SVG events
  • Creating animations
    • About Flash graphics
    • Create Flash animations
    • Working with Illustrator and Flash
  • Optimizing images
    • Save For Web & Devices overview
      • Preview images in the dialog box
      • Navigate in the dialog box
      • View optimized image information and download time
    • 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
      • Sort a color table
      • Add a new color to the color table
      • Select colors in the color table
      • Shift a color
      • Shift colors to the closest web palette equivalent
      • Map colors to transparency
      • Lock or unlock a color
      • Delete selected colors
      • Save a color table
      • Load a color table
    • PNG-24 optimization options
    • WBMP optimization options
    • SWF optimization options (Illustrator)
    • SVG optimization options (Illustrator)
  • Output settings for web graphics
    • Set output options
    • HTML output options
    • Slice output options
    • Background output settings
    • Saving Files output settings
• Chapter 13: Printing
  • Setting up documents for printing
    • Print a composite of artwork
    • Make artwork nonprintable
    • Print dialog box options
    • Reposition artwork on the page
    • Print multiple artboards
    • Tile artwork on multiple pages
    • Change the page size and orientation
    • Scale a document for printing
    • Change the printer resolution and screen frequency
  • Printing color separations
    • About color separations
    • Preparing artwork for color separating
    • Preview color separations
    • Print color separations
      • Color separation modes
      • Emulsion and image exposure
    • Print an object on all plates
  • Printer’s marks and bleed
    • About printer’s marks
    • Add printer’s marks
    • About bleed
    • Add a bleed
  • PostScript printing
    • About PPD files
      • Change the PPD file
      • Add a PPD file
    • Printing long, complex paths
      • Change the number of line segments used to print vector objects
      • Split paths for printing
    • Control how fonts are downloaded to a printer
    • Change the PostScript level for printing
  • Printing with color management
    • Let your application manage colors when printing
    • Let your printer manage colors when printing
  • Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
    • Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
    • Rasterize gradients and meshes during printing
    • Setting the proper screen frequency for printing gradients, meshes, and blends
    • Calculate the maximum blend length for gradients
  • Printing and saving transparent artwork
    • About flattening
    • File formats that retain transparency
    • Set transparency flattening options for printing
    • Transparency Flattener options
      • Highlight (preview) options
      • Transparency Flattener Preset 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
    • About overprinting
    • Set up overprinting
    • Overprint black
    • Simulate or discard overprinting
  • Trapping
    • About trapping
    • Create a trap
      • Trap options
    • Create a spread or choke
    • Trap a line
    • Trap a portion of an object
  • Print presets
    • Create print presets
    • Apply print presets
    • Edit print presets
    • Delete print presets
    • Export or import print presets
    • View a summary of print settings/presets
• Chapter 14: Automating tasks
  • Actions
    • Actions panel overview
      • Expand and collapse sets, actions, and commands
      • View actions by name only
      • Select actions in the Actions panel
    • Play an action on a file
    • Record an action
    • Insert nonrecordable tasks into actions
      • Insert a nonrecordable menu command
      • Insert a path
      • Insert selection of an object
      • Record optimization options for multiple slices in the Save For Web dialog box
    • Insert a stop
    • Change settings when playing an action
    • Exclude commands from an action
    • Specify playback speed
    • Edit and rerecord actions
      • Add commands to an action
      • Rearrange commands within an action
      • Record an action again
      • Record a single task again
    • Manage action sets
      • Save a set of actions
      • Load a set of actions
      • Restore actions to the default set
      • Organize action sets
    • Play an action on a batch of files
      • Batch options
  • Scripts
    • Use a script
      • Run a script
      • Install a script
  • Data-driven graphics
    • About data-driven graphics
    • Variables panel overview
    • Create variables
      • Create a Visibility variable
      • Create a Text String variable
      • Create a Linked File variable
      • Create a Graph Data variable
      • Create a variable without binding it to an object
    • Edit variables
      • Change the name and type of a variable
      • Unbind a variable
      • Lock or unlock all variables in a document
    • Delete variables
    • Edit dynamic objects
    • Identifying dynamic objects using XML IDs
    • Use data sets
      • Create a new data set
      • Switch between data sets
      • Apply the data on the artboard to the current data set
      • Rename a data set
      • Delete a data set
    • About variable libraries
    • Save a template for data-driven graphics
• Chapter 15: Graphs
  • Creating graphs
    • Create a graph
    • Adjust column width or decimal precision
      • Adjust the width of columns
      • Adjust the decimal precision for cells
    • Enter graph data
    • Use graph labels and data sets
      • Enter labels
      • Enter data sets for scatter graphs
      • Enter data sets for pie graphs
      • Enter data sets for column, bar, line, area, and radar 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
      • Pie graph options
    • Combine different graph types
    • Select parts of a graph
    • Format the text in a graph
  • Adding pictures and symbols to graphs
    • About graph designs
    • Import a column or marker design
    • Create a column design
    • Create a sliding column design
    • Add totals to a column design
    • Create a marker design
    • Apply a column design to a graph
    • Apply a marker design to a line or scatter graph
    • Reuse a graph design
• Chapter 16: Keyboard shortcuts
  • Customizing keyboard shortcuts
    • Customize 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
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