Adobe 26001648 - Illustrator CS3 User manual

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ADOBE

ILLUSTRATOR

CS3

FREEHAND TO ILLUSTRATOR MIGRATION GUIDE

Macromedia

® FreeHand® to Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 Migration Guide

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Contents

Introduction ............................................... 4

The purpose of this guide and how it can be useful for FreeHand users.

Key Terms .................................................. 6

Learn how Illustrator terms compare with those in FreeHand.

Converting Macromedia FreeHand Documents............... 9

Discover how to open your FreeHand documents in Illustrator.

The Illustrator Workspace..................................10

Take a tour of the Illustrator CS3 workspace, which oers robust new

creativity tools, a context-sensitive Control panel, and custom workspaces

for personal preferences or project requirements.

Setting up a New Document ................................15

Learn how to best prepare your artboard for your illustrations.

Working with Graphics .....................................20

See how easy it is to create predictable gradients, patterns, and elaborate

eects.

Working with Text.........................................31

Take your text to a new level with extensive and powerful text tools,

including Character and Paragraph panels and styles, exible OpenType

fonts, support for text on a path, and more.

Saving and Exporting Files.................................35

Save and export your artwork to many standard le formats such as PDF, SVG,

and Flash for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

Printing ...................................................40

Print your artwork reliably, thanks to a streamlined print interface and such

features as support for transparency attening and Adobe PDF output.

Keyboard Shortcuts .......................................44

A list of some of the most useful Illustrator CS3 keyboard shortcuts.

Additional Resources......................................48

Information on many useful resources for anyone who wants to learn

more about Illustrator features, tools, and techniques.

4 FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide

Welcome, and thank you for having made the move or thinking about moving

from Macromedia® FreeHand® to Adobe Illustrator® CS3.

FreeHand is no longer being developed to be compatible with new operating

systems and hardware, or to provide integration with other key design applica-

tions, such as Adobe Photoshop® CS3 and Adobe InDesign® CS3. Your move

to Illustrator is an important step to ensure that you can take advantage of new

technologies and capabilities as they become available.

is guide explains the main dierences between the two programs and

introduces you to some of the features that make Illustrator the industry-

standard tool for creating vector graphics for any media. It was written speci-

cally for FreeHand users like you, to help you transition to Illustrator as quickly

and as smoothly as possible.

Your experience using FreeHand will give you a good foundation for moving

to Illustrator, and the import of FreeHand les has been updated to support

FreeHand MX. If you have been using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign,

your move will be even easier, because all Adobe graphics applications share

common commands, panels, and keyboard shortcuts.

Illustrator is tightly integrated with all components of Adobe Creative Suite® 3,

and now with Adobe Bridge CS3, it has become easier than ever to manage

and organize les. In Creative Suite 3, the Adobe standard interface has been

updated to be more ecient, and is consistent between Photoshop CS3,

InDesign CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional.

e Live Trace and Live Paint features in Illustrator make it easier to get your

sketches onto your artboard as vector graphics, and Live Color presents a new

and exciting environment for exploring color harmonies and interactively

applying color to any selection of objects. Integration with Photoshop, including

the ability to choose layer comps during import and support for Photoshop

lters and eects, opens new horizons for vector graphics. Illustrator also gives

you access to many OpenType® features to help you create beautiful typography.

Illustrator CS3 integrates beautifully with Flash CS3 Professional. Now you

can copy/paste or import your Illustrator artwork into Flash, condent that the

critical elements in your Illustrator artwork are maintained in Flash.

We hope this guide gives you the the basics to explore Illustrator CS3, and

makes your transition from FreeHand a little bit easier.

Introduction

PureEnergy

Introduction 5

Turn sketches into vector graphics

Get total control of your objects with

object level appearance options

Create sophisticated

transparency

Use familiar tools

Set beautiful typography

with fully supported OpenType features

Make elaborate

and predictable blends

6 FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide

Key Terms

Pasteboard » Scratch area

What you know as the pasteboard in FreeHand is called the scratch area in

Illustrator. The scratch area is the area outside the artboard that extends to

the edge of a 227-inch square window. The scratch area represents the space

where you can create, edit, and store elements of artwork before moving

them onto the artboard. Objects placed on the scratch area are visible on-

screen, but they do not print.

Pages » Artboard

In FreeHand, you can set up multiple pages within a single document;

Illustrator considers the document and its artboard as one illustration. To out-

put specic areas of your illustration, use the Page tool or the new Crop Area

tool, or print overlapping tiles.

Object Properties Panel » Appearance panel

In FreeHand, the Object Properties panel is a context-sensitive area where you

access formatting options for any selected object. In Illustrator, to achieve the

same function, you use both the Appearance panel and the context-sensitive

Control panel. The Appearance panel lets you view and adjust the appearance

of attributes for any object, group, or layer. Fills and strokes are listed in stack-

ing order in the panel; objects in Illustrator can have multiple lls and strokes.

Eects are listed from top to bottom in the order in which they are applied to

the artwork. To display the panel, choose Window > Appearance.

Import » Place

In Illustrator, you can place both graphic and text les; placed graphics can

be either linked or embedded into the document and are accessible from

the Links panel. Integration across Adobe Creative Suite allows you, for ex-

ample, to choose layers or layer comps when you place Photoshop les into

Illustrator.

Because FreeHand and Illustrator are both vector drawing programs, they share

many common tools and commands.

Many of the terms used in the Illustrator menus, dialog boxes, and panels are

identical to those used in FreeHand. For example, tools and layers are essentially

the same in both programs. In some cases, FreeHand and Illustrator use

FreeHand Term » Illustrator Term

You control the attributes of objects in the

Appearance panel.

Key Terms 7

Transform Handles » Bounding box

When you select objects with the Selection tool, Illustrator displays a bound-

ing box around them. The bounding box lets you move, rotate, duplicate,

and scale objects easily by dragging the object or a handle (one of the hol-

low squares along the bounding box). To view the bounding box, choose

View > Show Bounding Box.

Keyline View » Outline

By default, Illustrator displays all artwork in color. However, you can improve

redraw and performance by viewing artwork as outlines (or paths). To view

artwork as outlines, choose View > Outline. Choose View > Preview to view

artwork in color.

Extrude Tool » 3D eects

3D eects enable you to create three-dimensional objects from two-dimen-

sional artwork or text. You can control the appearance of three-dimensional

objects with lighting, shading, rotation, and other properties.

Live Vector Eects » Eects

Eects in Illustrator are live, which means that you can modify them even

after they are applied. You can apply eects to any object and then modify

its vectors or the eect’s options, or remove the eect using the Appearance

panel. Once you apply an eect to an object, the Appearance panel lists the

eect and enables you to edit, move, duplicate, or delete it, or save it as part

of a graphic style.

Edit In External Editor » Edit Original

Illustrator is highly integrated with Photoshop. To open a linked bitmap le in

Photoshop, select the graphic and choose Edit Original in the Control panel

or Links panel, or from the Edit menu.

dierent terms for the same concept. For example, in FreeHand you work with

pages, while in Illustrator you work with an artboard. Once you understand the

dierence in terms, you are likely to nd the concepts quite similar. Here are

some key terms that dier between FreeHand and Illustrator:

Extrude, revolve, and rotate artwork and type

to create complex three-dimensional objects

using 3D eects in Illustrator.

The bounding box in Illustrator helps you

apply transformations to selected objects.

8 FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide

K E Y T E R M S

Graphic Hose Tool » Symbol Sprayer

The symbolism tools let you create and modify sets of symbol instances.

You create a symbol set using the Symbol Sprayer tool. You can then use the

other symbolism tools to change the density, color, location, size, rotation,

transparency, and style of the instances in the set. You are not limited to a

particular set of symbols; you can create and use as many as you want. All the

symbols you create are available in the Symbols panel.

Output Area Tool » Crop Area tool

By default, Illustrator crops artwork to the boundaries of the artboard. How-

ever, using the Crop Area tool, you can interactively dene crop areas for

print or export to other formats (video or web, for example). The option you

choose sets the position of crop marks, rulers, and video- and title-safe areas

on your document and denes the boundaries of the artwork to be printed

or exported. These boundaries are represented by a dashed line in the pre-

view area of the Print dialog box.

Eraser » Eraser tool

Quickly remove areas of artwork as easily as you erase pixels in Photoshop

by stroking with your mouse or stylus over any shape or set of shapes. New

paths will automatically be created along the edges of your erased stroke

with points laid down economically, but still preserving the smoothness of

your erasure.

Styles » Graphic styles

A graphic style is a set of reusable appearance attributes. Graphic styles allow

you to quickly change the look of an object. For example, you can change its

ll and stroke color, alter its transparency, and apply eects in one step. All

the changes you apply with graphic styles are completely reversible.

Mixer » Color panel

You use the Color panel to apply color to an object’s ll and stroke, and also

to edit and mix colors. The Color panel can display color values using dif-

ferent color models. By default, only the most commonly used options are

visible in the Color panel. To display the panel, choose Window > Color. To

change the color model, choose Grayscale, RGB, HSB, CMYK, or Web Safe RGB

from the panel menu.

FreeHand Term » Illustrator Term

The Color panel

This intricate foliage was created using the

symbolism tools in Illustrator.

Converting Macromedia FreeHand documents 9

C O N V E R T I N G M A C R O M E D I A F R E E H A N D D O C U M E N T S

knowhow from Adobe Labs

knowhow from Adobe Labs provides single-click, contextual access for viewing

tool tips, keyboard hints, and feature help. Now you can see all the shortcuts

that you never had time to learn, and discover ways of working with Illustrator

that you didn’t know were possible.

You can also access community-generated content created by Illustrator experts

on the web, pulled from a user account on del.icio.us.

Choose Window > Adobe Labs > knowhow and see the knowhow panel pop

onto your workspace. Click on any tool and look to knowhow to see a description,

keyboard hints, and links directly into Adobe Help for that very tool. For help with a

panel or topic, simply type a search term in knowhow’s search eld.

Note: knowhow is available only in English versions of Illustrator CS3.

Converting Macromedia

FreeHand documents

Illustrator can open FreeHand les up to version 10 and FreeHand MX (11).

FreeHand allows you to import both CMYK and RGB image les. If you open

a FreeHand document that contains both CMYK and RGB images, you’ll be

prompted to choose a specic color space (see “Setting up a New Document” on

page 15).

If the original FreeHand document contains more than one page, these will have

separate crop areas in the Illustrator document; this is useful to print individual

FreeHand pages, since Illustrator CS3 allows printing of individual crop areas.

You also have the option import only a specic page from a FreeHand le.

Other improved import features include:

Import of FreeHand swatches, dened in the Swatches palette in FreeHand,

as swatches in Illustrator CS3.

Import of FreeHand symbols as symbols in Illustrator CS3.

Import of FreeHand raster eects—drop shadow, basic and feather transpar-

ency—as live eects in Illustrator CS3.

Import of FreeHand Envelopes as Envelope eects in Illustrator CS3.

Import of FreeHand custom guides as Illustrator CS3 guides.

e ability to outline text upon import so that text appearance in FreeHand

is preserved in Illustrator CS3.

Proper positioning of FreeHand text, including text alignment, text wrap,

vertical text, and text inset, upon import into Illustrator CS3.

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Illustrator can work in either CMYK or RGB

color mode. You will be prompted to choose

one or the other when you open a FreeHand

document that contains objects that use both

CMYK and RGB color modes.

10 FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide

The Illustrator

Workspace

Control panel

Tools panel

Illustrator shares the same user interface with Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash

CS3, and its new default panel arrangement, including the single-column

toolbar at the le, makes it easier to access the tools you need. You can dock

panels in your favorite conguration, pull them out to oat free anywhere on

your screen, and collapse them to an icon view.

Illustration window

Panels

Hyperlink to access the full pane

Status bar

Hidden tools called out

from the tools panel

Hidden tools torn oﬀ

of the tools panel

Menus Jump to Adobe Bridge

The Illustrator CS3 workspace

Expand/Collapse panels

The Illustrator Workspace 11

e basic workspace in Illustrator (Window > Workspace > [Basic]) consists of

an illustration window where you draw and lay out your artwork, a Tools panel

that holds the tools for drawing and editing artwork, and panels to help you

monitor and modify your artwork.

e status bar (at the bottom le edge of the illustration window) displays

the current zoom level as well as the current tool, date and time, number of

undos and redos available, document color prole, or status of a managed le

(Version Cue).

The Tools panel

You use the tools in the Tools panel to create, select, and manipulate objects

in Illustrator. You can congure the Tools in double or single rows, or set as a

double- or single-row layout by clicking on the double arrows at the top of the

panel. Some tools have additional tools beneath them (hidden tools). A small

triangle at the lower right corner of the tool indicates that there are hidden tools.

You can tear o hidden tools into separate panels to have them readily avail-

able. To tear o a panel, click and hold the tool, and then drag your cursor to

Illustrator tools

The rst time you start Illustrator, the Tools panel appears at the left side

of the screen. You can move the Tools panel by dragging its title bar. You

can also show or hide the Tools panel by choosing Window > Tools.

Selection tools

Type tools

Drawing tools

Brush tool

Reshaping tools

Symbolism / graph tools

Advanced painting tools

Blend tool

Crop Area and Eraser tools

Move and zoom tools

Color

Screen modes

About the Selection tools

In FreeHand, you use the Pointer tool to select both

objects and single points; with the Subselect tool, you

can modify curves and objects in groups. In Illustrator,

the Selection tool lets you select objects or groups;

the Direct Selection tool lets you modify objects or

groups and select multiple single points on a path. Use

the Lasso tool to select multiple points by making a

free-form selection.

12 FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide

T H E I L L U S T R A T O R W O R K S P A C E

the right and release it at the edge of the pop-up tool panel. e name of the tool

and its keyboard shortcut appear when you hold the pointer over the tool.

Where are tools such as 3D Rotation, Extrude, and Fisheye lens?

In Illustrator, you apply 3D eects using the Eect menu (see page 30) or by

using Object > Envelope Distort to warp objects based on a shape you choose.

All panels, including the Control panel, have

a pop-up menu, from which you can choose,

and congure a variety of attributes. To open

the pop-up menu, click the

icon at the top

right of the panel.

Panels can be collapsed into an icon

view to optimize the space available

on your screen.

The context-sensitive Control panel gives you

immediate access to most formatting options.

The Control panel

e Control panel is context sensitive and oers quick access to options

related to the objects you select. For example, if you select a vector object,

many controls you will need to change its attributes appear there, including

commands for precise positioning on the artboard. Use the Control panel as

your primary tool for editing your artwork.

e Control panel also provides fast access to panels, which, in some cases, oer

additional options. Click a blue hyperlink to open another panel for easy access.

To congure the Control panel, choose options from the panel’s pop-up menu,

also called the panel menu.

In Illustrator CS3, you can now access anchor point controls, selection tools,

clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more, all exposed contextually within

the Control panel.

Panels

You can access all panels in Illustrator from the Window menu; some can also

be activated by clicking the blue hyperlinks in the Control panel.

A panel can be grouped with another by dragging its tab onto the other panel.

To dock panels so that they move together, drag a panel’s tab to the bottom of

another panel until you see a blue line. When the panels are grouped or stacked

in panes, either on the le or the right of your screen, they can be collapsed into

an icon view to further optimize the working space. Once you have organized

the panels, you can save your setup as a Workspace by choosing Window >

Workspace > Save Workspace.

The Illustrator Workspace 13

T H E I L L U S T R A T O R W O R K S P A C E

Tip: To print a list of Illustrator shortcuts,

click Export Text in the Keyboard

Shortcuts dialog box (Edit > Keyboard

Shortcuts).

Context-sensitive menus

You can access many commands using context-sensitive menus. Context-sensi-

tive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or

panel. To display a context-sensitive menu, right-click in the document window

or panel (or Control-click on Mac OS).

When you right-click (or Control-click on Mac

OS) on selected text (left) or a path (right),

a menu allows you fast access to contextual

commands.

Common panel actions

A. Click to collapse/expand panel.

B. Click to collapse/expand panel.

Click to close panel.

D. Show pop-up menu for the panel.

E. Creates a new iteration of the panel’s “subject,”

such as an action, brush, style, layer, or swatch.

Option-click (Mac OS) or Alt-click (Windows)

to set options (except action and brush). Drag

onto button to duplicate action, brush, style,

ﬁll/stroke (appearance), layer, or swatch.

F. Deletes action, brush, layer, or swatch; Option-

click (Mac OS) or Alt-click (Windows) to delete

without conﬁrmation (except for Variable

panel).

Other panel shortcuts

• Shift+Return/Enter to apply value and keep text

box active.

• Command/Ctrl+~ (tilde) to highlight last-used

text box in panel.

• Command/Ctrl+click to select noncontiguous

actions, brushes, layers (same level only), links,

styles, or swatches.

• Tab to show/hide panels.

• Shift+Tab to show/hide all panels except the

Tools panel.

E F

Keyboard shortcuts

Illustrator lets you assign keyboard shortcuts for many operations. e

Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box serves as a shortcut editor, and includes all

commands that support shortcuts, some of which aren’t in the default shortcut

set. Shortcuts for tools are also shown in the knowhow palette. For a list of

keyboard shortcuts, see page 44.

Preferences

Before you begin creating artwork with Illustrator, familiarize yourself with the

program’s default settings—specically the options available in the Preferences

dialog box (choose Illustrator > Preferences > General in Mac OS or choose

Edit > Preferences > General in Windows). You can customize these settings

to suit your needs, creating a work environment that’s both productive and

comfortable. As you look through the panes in the Preferences dialog box, you’ll

see that many of the options are identical to those in FreeHand. You’ll also nd

several unfamiliar but useful options, such as the option to use the clipboard to

transfer selections between an Illustrator le and other Adobe applications.

e clipboard is particularly useful for moving paths from one application

to another because paths are copied to the clipboard as PostScript language

descriptions. Artwork copied to the clipboard is pasted in PICT format in

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most applications. However, some applications, such as InDesign, accept PDF

or AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clipboard) data. PDF preserves transparency;

AICB lets you specify whether you want to preserve the overall appearance

of the selection or copy the selection as a set of paths (which can be useful in

Photoshop and InDesign).

You may also want set the preferences for how anchors and handles appear

onscreen (choose Illustrator > Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display

in Mac OS or choose Edit > Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display in

Windows).

Color management

e Adobe color management system helps you maintain the appearance of

colors as you import images, edit or transfer documents between Adobe appli-

cations, and output your nished compositions.

By default, color management is turned on in Adobe Creative Suite 3 compo-

nents. You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display for RGB

and CMYK colors no matter which application you view them in.

To change color settings, choose Edit > Color Settings. To ensure that your

Adobe Creative Suite components are synchronized using the same color

settings for consistent color management, choose Edit > Creative Suite Color

Settings in Adobe Bridge and select an appropriate prole.

For more information about color management, see Illustrator Help.

File Handling & Clipboard preferences let you

choose how to copy your artwork to other

applications.

Setting up a New Document 15

Setting up a New

Document

An Illustrator document consists of one single-page artboard that can be up to

227 square inches.

When you start Illustrator, the Welcome screen lets you access your recent

documents or choose a new type of document for your choice of media. If

you’re working on a video project, choose the Video And Film prole and select

a size such as NTSC DV. Your color mode will be set to RGB and your artboard

will automatically show the format’s dimensions with guides for video and title-

safe areas. If you’re working on a web project, choose a New Document Prole

for the web to automatically set raster resolution to 72ppi and color to RGB.

Print proles default to CMYK color and oer a range of popular artboard

setups including preset raster-eects resolutions. You can also save your own

custom proles that specify setup parameters such as artboard dimensions,

swatches, brushes, styles, and color spaces.

To create a new document, you can also choose File > New and choose a New

Document Prole depending on the intended use of your illustration. As noted

above, the New Document Prole will correctly set dimensions, units, color

mode and raster eects parameters based on the prole selected. Any of these

settings can be modied to suit your needs.

You can change raster eects settings at any time by choosing Eects >

Document Raster Eects settings.

When you create a new document, you can

determine size, units of measurement, and

orientation of the artboard. You will also be

prompted to choose a color mode.

The Illustrator Welcome screen—your

starting point for a new project.

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To change the color mode, choose File > Document Color Mode (you can’t

change the color mode in the Document Setup dialog box).

Where’s the Document panel?

In FreeHand, you use the Document panel to target and select pages and to

choose page dimensions, orientation, bleed settings, and printer resolution.

In Illustrator, choose File > Document Setup to change the attributes of the

artboard. You use the Document Setup dialog box to choose settings for type

and transparency at the document level. You can also dene the dictionary used

for spell-checking and hyphenation, the position of superscripts, the scale for

small caps, or how to copy transparency eects over to the clipboard for use

within Illustrator or in other applications.

In FreeHand, you determine the Bleed Area in the Document panel; in

Illustrator, the Bleed area is assigned in the Print dialog box.

Crop Area (if it has been set)

Printable area

Nonprintable area (printer margins)

Edge of the printed page

Artboard

Scratch area

The Illustrator document

The artboard represents the entire

area that can contain printable art-

work. The artboard’s dimensions

may not match the current page

size. For example, your artboard may

be 10x20 inches, while your print

settings specify 8-1/2x11-inch paper.

You can view the page boundaries

in relation to the artboard by show-

ing page tiling (View > Show Page

Tiling). When page tiling is on, the

printable and nonprintable areas are

represented by a series of solid and

dotted lines. You can move the print-

able area across the artboard by us-

ing the Page tool.

The scratch area is the area outside

of the artboard that extends to the

edge of the 227-square inch win

dow. The scratch area represents a

space on which you can create, edit,

and store elements of artwork be-

fore moving them onto the artboard.

Objects placed onto the scratch area

are visible onscreen, but they do not

print.

You can change the document setup at any

time by choosing File > Document Setup.

Setting up a New Document 17

Document templates

You can use templates to create new documents that share common settings and

design elements. For example, if you need to design a series of business cards

with a similar look and feel, you can create a template with the desired artboard

size, view settings (such as guides), and print options. e template can also

contain symbols for common design elements (such as logos) and specic sets

of color swatches, brushes, and graphic styles.

Illustrator comes with over 200 professionally designed templates, including

templates for letterhead, business cards, envelopes, brochures, labels, certicates,

postcards, greeting cards, and websites.

You can save your artwork in Adobe Illustrator Template (AIT) format to reuse

or share with others. When you select a template using the New From Template

command, Illustrator creates a new document with identical content to the

template, but leaves the original template le untouched.

Two of the many templates included with

Illustrator CS3. You can save any design or

layout as a template by choosing File > Save

As Template.

The icons for Illustrator documents (top) and

templates (bottom) let you know the type of

le before you open it.

S E T T I N G U P A N E W D O C U M E N T

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How do I set up measurement units?

In Illustrator, there are several ways to select units of measurement:

In the Preferences dialog box, choose Units & Display Performance and

select a unit of measurement. You can also choose dierent units for Stroke

and Type, which are typically measured in points.

Choose the global measurement unit when you create a new document. You

can always change the unit of measurement later by using the Document

Setup dialog box.

Override the default units by entering a value in the Control panel. For

example, follow the value by any of the these abbreviations: inch, inches, in,

millimeters, millimetres, mm, Qs (one Q equals 0.25 millimeter), centime-

ters, centimetres, cm, points, p, pt, picas, pc, pixel, pixels, and px.

Using Guides and grids

Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides

(straight vertical or horizontal lines) and guide objects (vector objects that you

convert to guides). You can choose between two guide styles—dots and lines—

and you can change the color of guides by using either predened grid colors or

colors you select using a color picker. By default, guides are unlocked, and can

be moved, modied, or deleted. Guides can be locked in place by choosing View

> Guides > Lock Guides.

When you choose View > Show Grid, a grid appears behind your artwork in the

illustration window. To change the spacing between gridlines, color of the grid-

lines, or grid style, choose Illustrator > Preferences > Guides & Grid (Mac OS) or

Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid (Windows). Grids and guides do not print.

Where is the Guides Layer?

In FreeHand, there is a default layer called Guides that allows you to move

guides over or under the artwork. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on

which they were created; to emulate FreeHand’s behavior, create a layer and

name it Guides. You can add guides to that layer, turn the layer on or o, and

move it over or under the layers of your artwork.

•

Tip: To emulate the snapping feature

in FreeHand, activate Smart Guides in

Illustrator by choosing View > Smart

Guides. Smart Guides are temporary

snap-to guides that help you create,

align, edit, and transform objects relative

to other objects.

Tip: Right-click (or Control-click in

Mac OS) in the ruler to open a menu

from which you can select the unit of

measurement.

Tip: You can perform simple math in

any box that accepts numeric values

using a single mathematical operator,

such as + (addition), - (substraction),

x (multiplication), / (division), or %

(percent).

Units & Display Performance preferences let

you choose your measurement system.

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Using layers

When creating complex artwork, it’s a challenge to keep track of all the items

in your document window. Small items get hidden under larger items, and

selecting artwork becomes dicult. Layers provide a way to manage all the

items that make up your artwork. ink of layers as clear folders that contain

artwork. If you reshue the folders, you change the stacking order of the items

in your artwork. You can move items between folders and create subfolders. To

display the Layers panel, choose Window > Layers.

e structure of layers in your document can be as simple or complex as you

want it to be. By default, all items are organized in a single layer. However, you

can create new layers and move items into them, or move elements from one

layer to another. e Layers panel provides an easy way to select, hide, lock,

and change the appearance attributes of artwork. You can even create template

layers, which you can use to trace artwork, or exchange layers with Photoshop.

By default, Illustrator assigns a unique color to each layer in the Layers panel.

e color appears in the layer’s selection column when one or more objects

within the layer are selected, and also appears in the selected object’s selection

column. In addition, the same color appears in the document window in the

bounding box, path, anchor points, and center point of the selected object. You

can use this color to quickly locate an object’s corresponding layer in the Layers

panel, and you can change this layer color to suit your needs.

When a layer or an object contains other layers or objects, a triangle appears to

the le of the item’s name in the Layers panel. Click the triangle to show or hide

the contents. When a layer or an object is selected, a colored square appears

at the right edge of the items’s name in the Layers panel; to move the selected

item to another layer or change its stacking order, drag the colored square to the

desired layer.

The Layers panel

Layer

Sublayer

Toggle layer visibility

Targeted layer

Indicates selected art (drag to move to another layer)

Layer color code

Lock/Unlock layer

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Working with Graphics

Use the drawing tools in Illustrator to create

vector graphics.

Drawing

Drawing in Illustrator is very similar to drawing in FreeHand; you use the Pen,

Paintbrush, and Pencil tools to draw vector graphics in Illustrator. You can also

draw basic geometric shapes by using tools such as the Rectangle, Ellipse, and

Polygon tools.

Using the Pen tool

e Pen tool is the principal tool for drawing straight lines, Bézier curves,

and complex shapes. In addition to its expected function, the Pen tool also

performs the actions of the following three related tools:

e Add Anchor Point tool adds anchor points to a path (or use the Pen

tool on a segment of a selected path).

e Remove Anchor Point tool removes anchor points (or use the Pen

tool on existing points of a selected path).

e Convert Anchor Point tool converts a corner point to a smooth

point or vice versa (or press Option or Alt while using the Pen tool).

You can also nd many Pen tool options in the Control panel, including controls

for removing, connecting, and cutting paths, as well as the convert anchor point

options.

Selecting and modifying paths and anchor points

In Illustrator, to select entire paths (with all anchor points selected) you use

the Selection tool . To select individual anchor points, you can also use the

Direct Selection tool or the Lasso tool ; you can then move and modify

anchor points. When you run your cursor over any anchor point, causing it to

enlarge, you can easily see and select it. In FreeHand, selected anchor points are

indicated by a hollow square; in Illustrator, selected anchor points are indicated

by a lled square.

To align and distribute points, just as you would with objects, make a selection

with the Direct Selection tool, and use the alignment controls in the Control

panel (or the Align panel).

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Tip: While using the Polygon or Star tool,

press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys

to add and remove sides from a polygon

or points from a star.

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