Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Legal notices
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What's new
- New features summary
- What's new and changed
- Linked Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries
- Adobe Stock
- 10x faster zoom, pan, scroll
- 10x greater zoom magnification
- Safe Mode
- Recover data in your files
- Integration with Creative Cloud mobile apps
- Creative Cloud Charts (Preview)
- GPU Performance
- Touch workspace enhancements
- Tool enhancements
- Other important enhancements
- New features summary
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customizing the workspace
- Tools
- Tool galleries
- Improved User Interface
- Safe Mode
- Recover document data after a crash
- Touch Workspace
- Artboard overview
- Rulers, grids, guides, and cropmarks
- Custom Tools Panels
- Viewing artwork
- Setting preferences
- Slicing and cutting tool gallery
- Using multiple artboards
- Recovery, undo, and automation
- Working with ConnectNow
- Files and templates
- Import and export Illustrator CC settings
- File Info dialog
- Chapter 3: Drawing
- Drawing basics
- Drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool
- Drawing simple lines and shapes
- Editing paths
- Drawing pixel-aligned paths forweb workflows
- 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
- Join two or more paths
- Move or nudge anchor points or segments using the keyboard
- Stretch parts of a path without distorting its overall shape
- Pen tool rubberband preview
- Curvature Tool
- Using Image Trace
- Enhanced Pencil Tool
- Anchor Point enhancements
- Symbols
- Symbolism tools and symbol sets
- Perspective drawing
- Introducing perspective drawing
- Perspective grid presets
- Drawing new objects in perspective
- Attach objects to perspective
- Release objects with perspective
- Bringing objects in perspective
- Selecting objects in perspective
- Transforming objects
- Adding text and symbols in perspective
- Perspective Grid settings
- About Perspective Grid
- Using Live Trace | CS5 and earlier
- Automatic corner generation | Illustrator CC
- Creating arrows and arrowheads in Illustrator
- Chapter 4: Color
- About color
- Selecting colors
- Using and creating swatches
- 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
- Create color themes with Kuler
- Color Themes 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
- Invert multiple colors
- Adjust color balance of one or more colors
- Change the color mode of a document
- Display and output spot colors using Lab values
- Convert color to grayscale and vice versa
- Adjust the saturation of multiple colors
- Mix overlapping colors
- Chapter 5: Painting
- About painting
- Painting with fills and strokes
- Painting methods
- About fills and strokes
- Apply a fill color to an object
- Draw and merge paths with the Blob Brush tool
- Convert strokes to compound paths
- Remove the fill or stroke from an object
- Select objects with the same fill and stroke
- Create multiple fills and strokes
- Create strokes with variable widths
- Live Paint groups
- Brushes
- Transparency and blending modes
- Gradients
- Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview
- Patterns
- Meshes
- Stroke an object
- Create and edit patterns
- Apply or edit a gradient
- Images in brushes | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 6: Selecting and arranging objects
- Selecting objects
- Selection options and preferences
- Isolate artwork for editing
- Select behind objects
- Select the next object in the stacking order
- Select objects using the Layers panel
- Select an object with the Selection, Lasso, or Magic Wand tool
- Select filled objects
- Select groups and objects in a group
- Select faces and edges in a Live Paint group
- Select objects by characteristic
- Repeat, invert, or save a selection
- Grouping and expanding objects
- Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
- Rotating and reflecting objects
- Layers
- Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
- Duplicating objects
- Stacking objects
- Selecting objects
- Chapter 7: Reshaping objects
- Transforming objects
- Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
- Reshape using envelopes
- Combining objects
- Cutting and dividing objects
- Clipping masks
- Building new shapes using the Shape Buildertool
- Live Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles
- Working with Live Corners
- Blending objects
- Enhanced reshape workflows with touch support
- Reshaping objects with effects
- Creating 3D objects
- Touch-based tools and enhancements | Illustrator CC
- Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool
- Chapter 8: Importing, exporting, and saving
- Importing artwork files
- About linked and embedded artwork
- Place (import) files
- Embedded and linked artwork in the Links panel
- 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
- Importing Adobe PDF files
- Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCADfiles
- Importing artwork from Photoshop
- Saving artwork
- Package files
- Unembed images
- Share on Behance
- Creating Adobe PDF files
- Adobe PDF options
- Exporting artwork
- File information and metadata
- Export SVG graphics styles in CSS | Illustrator CC
- Extract CSS | Illustrator CC
- Links information
- Place multiple files | Illustrator CC
- Importing artwork files
- Chapter 9: Type
- Importing and exporting text
- Creating text
- Creating type on a path
- Scaling and rotating type
- Spelling and language dictionaries
- Fonts
- Find missing fonts (Typekit workflow)
- Text enhancements
- Working with Typekit Fonts
- Arabic and Hebrew type
- Line and character spacing
- Tabs
- 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 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
- Align Asian characters with mojisoroe
- Use mojikumi
- Use kinsoku
- Specify a burasagari option
- Use kurikaeshi moji shori
- 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
- Formatting paragraphs
- Hyphenation and line breaks
- Updating text from Illustrator10
- Character and paragraph styles
- Creating composite fonts
- Indic support with new Composers | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 10: 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
- Manage 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
- Summary of effects
- Create a drop shadow
- Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
- Creating sketches and mosaics
- Graphic styles
- Appearance attributes
- Chapter 11: Web graphics
- Chapter 12: Printing
- Setting up documents for printing
- Change the page size and orientation
- Printing color separations
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- PostScript printing
- Printing with color management
- Printing and saving transparentartwork
- 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
- Printing gradients, meshes, andcolor blends
- Overprinting
- Trapping
- Print presets
- Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning
- White Overprint | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 13: Automating tasks
- Automation with actions
- About actions
- Actions panel overview
- Play an action on a file
- Record an action
- Insert nonrecordable tasks into actions
- Insert a stop
- Change settings when playing an action
- Exclude commands from an action
- Specify playback speed
- Edit and rerecord actions
- Manage action sets
- Play an action on a batch of files
- Automation with scripts
- Data-driven graphics through templates andvariables
- Automation with actions
- Chapter 14: Graphs
- Creative Cloud Charts (Preview)
- 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
- Creating graphs
- Chapter 15: Keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for viewing artwork
- Keys for drawing
- Keys for drawing in perspective
- 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 creating variable width points
- 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