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Using Help | Contents | Index Back 2 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Contents Using Help | Contents | Index Back 3 Contents Learning about Adobe Illustrator 4 What's New in Illustrator CS 12 Tutorials 19 Looking at the Work Area 35 Creating Artwork in Illustrator 60 Basic Drawing 85 Arranging and Combining Objects 116 Reshaping Objects 159 Applying Color, Fills, and Strokes 195 Producing Consistent Color 218 Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns 236 Enhancing the Appearance of Objects 264 Advanced Drawing 294 Working with Bitmap Images 319 Adding Type to Artwork 323 Formatting Type 348 Creating Web Graphics 392 Saving and Exporting Artwork 423 Printing Artwork 446 Producing Color Separations 479 Automating Tasks 492 Creating Graphs 510 Keyboard Shortcuts 532 Legal Notices 543 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 3 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 4 Learning about Adobe Illustrator Getting Help Adobe provides a variety of options for you to learn Illustrator, including printed guides, online Help, and tool tips. You can easily access a host of continually updated Web resources for learning Illustrator, from tips and tutorials to tech support information. Getting up to speed depends on your experience with previous versions of Illustrator. Finding Help for Illustrator features If you... Are new to Illustrator and want an overview of tools and features Try this... · Browse through the information in "Working with Illustrator" on page 6 for information on specific tasks. · See the "Looking at the Work Area" chapter to get familiar with the work area and tools. · Go to the Tutorials chapter for hands-on lessons. · Use the Illustrator tool tips feature to help identify tools, buttons, and palette controls as you work in Illustrator. (See "Using tool tips" on page 45.) Are upgrading from a previous ver- · See the "What's New" chapter for information on new funcsion of Illustrator tionality in Illustrator CS. · Browse through the information in "Working with Illustrator" on page 6 for information on specific tasks. Are looking for a detailed informa- · Search for the feature in Illustrator Help or looking it up in tion about a feature the index. Want to learn about free content included with Illustrator · Choose Help > Welcome Screen, and click Cool Extras to view a catalog of templates, brushes, styles, symbols, swatches, fonts, and sample files. Want a PDF version of the Illustrator · See the AICSHelp file on the CD. User Guide and Help system Want information on keyboard shortcuts · See the Keyboard Shortcuts appendix. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 4 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 5 Finding Illustrator training resources If you... Want to learn new techniques for using Illustrator Try this... · Complete one of the tutorials available on the Adobe Illustrator Web site. · Choose Help > Illustrator Online to open the main Adobe Illustrator Web page. · Choose Help > Online Support to go directly to the Adobe Illustrator support page. · Open Adobe's home page at www.adobe.com. Then select Products and click the Illustrator link. Note: You must have an Internet connection and an Internet browser in order to access the Adobe Web site using these commands. Resources on the Adobe Web site are continually updated and include the following step-by-step tutorials; updates, patches, and plug-ins; Illustrator Top Issues containing the latest Illustrator technical support solutions; technical guides; a searchable database of answers to technical questions; and links to user forums. Are a developer looking for techni- Go to http://partners.adobe.com/asn/techresources.jsp. cal resources The Adobe Solutions Network (ASN) provides resources for developers, print service providers, and others interested in making the most of Adobe products and technologies. Here, you can find access to such information as SDKs, the developer knowledgebase, and technical guides for areas such as PDF, PostScript and printing technologies, fonts, XMP, and SVG. Are looking for a book or selfguided training option Visit the Adobe Press site at www.adobe.com/misc/ books.html or contact your local bookseller. Adobe Press books provide in-depth training in Adobe software, including the acclaimed Classroom in a Book® series developed by experts at Adobe. Want information about becoming Visit the Partnering with Adobe Web site at http://partan Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe ners.adobe.com. Certification is available worldwide. Certified Instructor, or Adobe Authorized Learning Provider Finding support for Illustrator If you... Try this... Want answers to common trouble- Choose Help > Online Support and follow the links to the Supshooting questions port Knowledgebase. You can browse top issues for Illustrator and search a database with answers to technical questions. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 5 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 6 Finding support for Illustrator If you... Want customer or technical support Try this... · Refer to the technical support card provided with your software. · When you register your product, you may be entitled to technical support for up to 90 days from the date of your first call. Terms may vary depending on the country of residence. To register online, choose Help > Registration. You can also register by filling out and returning the warranty registration card included with your software package. · See the ReadMe installed with the program for additional information. · See the Adobe Illustrator support page for information on top support issues and troubleshooting information for common problems. This support page includes access to an extensive Support Knowledgebase, which you can search for answers to specific Illustrator questions and problems. To access the Adobe Illustrator support page, choose Help > Online Support. Working with Illustrator You can work with Illustrator in different ways. Whether you're creating graphics for the Web or high-resolution images for print, Illustrator delivers easy-to-use tools and editable effects to let you experiment at will--or revise as needed--and still meet your deadlines. If you want to jump-start a project Illustrator provides a variety of professionally-designed resources to help get your creative juices flowing: · Use templates to start typical design projects. Illustrator comes with templates for business documents (letterhead, business cards, envelopes, and so on), CD and DVD booklets, brochures, certificates, greeting cards, Web sites, and more . In addition, you can create new templates to meet your design and production needs. (See "Creating new documents" on page 62 and "Creating new templates" on page 63.) · Use libraries of symbols, brushes, styles, and swatches to speed up the design process. For a catalog of the libraries, choose Help > Welcome Screen, and click Cool Extras. If you want to draw an illustration From the industry-standard Pen tool to versatile brushes and symbols, Illustrator supplies tools that support your illustration style: · Use the Pen tool to draw precise paths--smooth, flowing curves or straight lines--or use the dynamic pencil to draw on-screen as easily as you do on paper. (See "Drawing precise paths with the Pen tool" on page 98 and "Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool" on page 96.) Use the specialized shape tools to draw rectangles, circles, arcs, grids, spirals, stars, and more. (See "Drawing simple lines and shapes" on page 87.) · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 6 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 7 · Use brushes to create hand-drawn effects, such as calligraphic strokes, and paint patterns that flow along a path. Customize the brushes or edit the strokes at any time to fine-tune the image. (See "Using brushes" on page 294.) If you start an illustration by sketching it on paper, simply scan your drawing and place it into Illustrator as a template layer. Then use the Auto Trace tool to automatically trace the image. (See "Tracing artwork" on page 113.) Use symbols to add individual design elements to an illustration or create naturallooking masses of repeating elements such as foliage or crowds. (See "Drawing with symbols" on page 306 and "Using the symbolism tools" on page 310.) Create complex shapes quickly by combining simple shapes into compounds. Then edit the compounds if you need to without redrawing the original shapes. (See "Combining objects into complex shapes" on page 148.) Reshape objects with the Illustrator transformation tools. You can apply the changes interactively, or enter specific settings to control the results precisely. (See "Choosing a reshaping method" on page 159.) · · · · If you want to apply sophisticated color effects Illustrator offers advanced fill and stroke options such as patterns, gradients, and the ability to add multiple fills and strokes to a single object. In addition, you can apply transparency and masks to produce painterly, see-through effects: · Use the Transparency palette to apply transparency to vector objects, bitmap images, or type. You have the option of limiting transparency to a layer, a group, or an object's fill or stroke, and transparent objects and type remain fully editable. (See "Working with transparency" on page 236.) Apply blending modes to blend the colors of graphics and type with the colors on underlying layers. By experimenting with different mode settings in the Transparency palette, you can create a wide range of effects. (See "Using blending modes" on page 239.) Use clipping masks to cut an object away from its background, or create opacity masks to let elements on an underlying layer show through an object. (See "Using clipping masks to change the shape of objects" on page 155 and "Creating and editing opacity masks" on page 243.) Paint objects by filling them with solid colors or patterns. Or use gradients to produce painterly fills that flow between multiple colors, similar to watercolors. (See "Applying color fills and strokes to objects" on page 214, "Using the Gradient palette" on page 248, and "Working with patterns" on page 255.) Select Add New Fill or Add New Stroke from the Appearance palette to apply multiple strokes and fills to a single object. (See "Creating multiple fills and strokes in an object" on page 217.) · · · · If you want to add visual impact to your artwork With Illustrator's dynamic tools and effects, you'll be able to make your ideas come to life: · Import files from other applications to add diverse elements to your artwork. (See "Importing artwork" on page 74 and "Managing linked and embedded artwork" on page 80.) Using Help | Contents | Index Back 7 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 8 · Use graphic styles to quickly add flair to text and artwork. Illustrator comes with over 150 preset styles, plus you can save new styles with a single click. (See "Using graphic styles" on page 289.) Use effects to experiment with a limitless variety of appearances while keeping the ability to edit the underlying objects. Effects can be modified or removed instantly, so you'll always be in control of the final artwork. (See "Using filters and effects" on page 273 and "Summary of filters and effects" on page 276.) When applying styles and effects, use the Layers palette to target any object, group, or layer you want to change. Then use the Appearance palette to keep track of and modify the results. (See "Targeting layers, groups, and containers" on page 268.) Bend, stretch, and twist your graphics in any way imaginable with live enveloping, warping, and liquify tools. The distorted objects remain editable, no matter how much they have been manipulated. (See "Reshaping objects with envelopes" on page 170, "Reshaping objects with effects and filters" on page 180, and "Reshaping objects with the liquify tools" on page 168.) · · · If you want to create professional-quality type Illustrator provides powerful, flexible features for creating and modifying type. With the new typographic controls in this version of Illustrator, you be able to set type like a pro: · Add type anywhere in your artwork--horizontally, vertically, along paths, inside shapes, around shapes, in rows and in columns. If you can imagine it, Illustrator can do it. (See "Creating type" on page 324.) Use the OpenType and Glyphs palettes to gain access to special characters in OpenType font, including ligatures, fractions, swash characters, titling characters, ordinals, and ornaments. Illustrator comes with a variety of OpenType ® fonts so you can use these features in your work right away. (See "Applying OpenType features to characters" on page 360.) Use the Character and Paragraph palettes to keep typographic controls at your fingertips. These palettes provide a host of formatting options--from font, size, leading, kerning, and tracking to alignment, justification, and indentation. (See "Formatting characters" on page 350 and "Formatting paragraphs" on page 364.) Once your type is formatted exactly as desired, save the settings in a character or paragraph style. Styles help you format type quickly and maintain high standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design is consistent. (See "Using character and paragraph styles" on page 375.) Use the Adobe Every-line Composer to automatically typeset blocks of text. The Everyline Composer produces elegant line breaks with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting rivers of white space flowing from line to line. (See "Working with composition" on page 370.) Use editing features--including spell-checking, find and replace, and smart punctuation--to fine-tune your text. Illustrator comes with dictionaries for twenty-nine different languages so you can use these features regardless of which language the text is in. (See "Editing text" on page 339.) · · · · · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 8 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 9 · If your artwork includes Japanese text, turn on the Show Asian Options preference. Illustrator includes features for tsume, tate-chu-yoko, warichuu, mojikumi, kinsoku shori and composite fonts. (See "Working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type" on page 378.) If you want to create graphics for the Web Illustrator provides Web-savvy tools to help you minimize file size without sacrificing the quality of your artwork--and unlike their raster-based counterparts, the vector elements you create in Illustrator remain completely editable. · To manage repeating graphics efficiently, create a symbol and then use as many instances of it as you need. File size stays small because the symbol is defined only once, and the instances reference the symbol. In addition, the instances update automatically when you edit the symbol. (See "Drawing with symbols" on page 306.) Create vector- or raster-based slices from objects, groups, or layers. The slices update automatically when elements are repositioned or edited, and you can export individual slices in Macromedia Flash (SWF), SVG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or HTML format, all within the same HTML table. (See "Dividing artwork into slices" on page 394.) Use the Release to Layers command to shuffle objects from one layer onto individual layers. Then export the layers in Photoshop format or as a Macromedia Flash (SWF) file for animation in another Adobe application. (See "Releasing items to separate layers" on page 139.) Use the Image Map pop-up menu in the Attributes palette to define an image map. Enter a URL, and Illustrator automatically generates a linked image map when you export the file in Web format. (See "Creating image maps" on page 400.) Apply drop shadows and other effects as editable SVG effects. These low-memory vector effects are rasterized only when viewed in an SVG viewer, so they look crisp at any size. (See "Creating Web graphics with SVG" on page 401.) Apply type anti-aliasing selectively to keep small text easy to read. (See "Rasterizing and anti-aliasing type" on page 346.) Choose View > Pixel Preview to see how your vector objects will appear when they are rasterized for the Web. (See "Working in pixel preview mode" on page 393.) Set the Color palette to display only Web-safe colors, or use the Only Web Colors option in the Color Picker. In addition, you can convert an existing print file to RGB by choosing File > Document Color Mode > RGB. (See "Using the Color palette" on page 201 and "Using the Color Picker" on page 200.) The Save for Web dialog box displays side-by-side previews of your artwork to let you compare different compression options and select settings that keep the image quality high and the file size low. (See "Optimizing images" on page 407.) · · · · · · · · If you want to speed up everyday tasks Saving a few seconds here and there can shave hours off a complex project, and Illustrator is packed with features to handle common tasks quickly and efficiently. · Specify a tolerance range for the Magic Wand tool to select a range of objects with similar attributes--every object with a stroke weight between 1 and 3 points, for example. Save and load selections easily using the Select menu. (See "Using the Magic Wand tool and palette" on page 121.) Back 9 Using Help | Contents | Index Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 10 · Use graphic styles and effects to change the appearance of vector objects instantly. Because the original objects remain intact, you can modify the results at any time. (See "Using graphic styles" on page 289 and "Using filters and effects" on page 273.) Manage complex artwork efficiently by using the Layers palette to organize the file into distinct layers and sublayers. You can also use the Layers palette to apply appearance attributes to layers, groups, and objects. (See "Organizing objects using layers" on page 135.) Position objects quickly using the precision layout tools in Illustrator, including snap-to grids, Smart Guides, and the Align palette. (See "Laying out artwork with precision" on page 67 and "Aligning and distributing objects" on page 128.) Sample text and color attributes with the Eyedropper tool and apply the attributes to other objects. (See "Copying attributes between objects" on page 271.) Use the Swatches palette to store color and pattern swatches in a custom swatch set. When you copy an object from one file to another, any swatches associated with the object are added to the Swatches palette in the destination document. (See "Working with swatches" on page 202.) · · · · If you want to use Illustrator with other applications When you use Illustrator with other Adobe software, you can take advantage of superior Adobe technologies such as cross-product color-management tools, file information, Smart Object technology, transparency tools, and a unified interface that makes it easy to put your expertise in one application to work in another: · Preserve layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, and editable type when passing files between Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Retain rollover and animation information in linked Photoshop files when exporting from Illustrator as CSS layers. (See "Exporting artwork" on page 437 and "Exporting layers as CSS layers" on page 416.) Edit native Illustrator files directly in Adobe InDesign. Adjust transparency settings in InDesign, and preserve live effects, such as drop shadows. Drop Illustrator files inside Adobe GoLive and then double-click the files to launch Illustrator and make edits. The changes appear automatically in the GoLive file. Fine-tune the optimization settings directly in GoLive, and import data-driven graphics templates into GoLive for automated network publishing. Export EPS and Macromedia Flash (SWF) files for use in LiveMotion. Export Illustrator blends as SWF sequences that can be animated in LiveMotion. Double-click a placed Illustrator file to launch Illustrator; any edits update automatically in the LiveMotion file. (See "Creating Web graphics with SWF" on page 406.) Save your Illustrator files in Adobe PDF format to create documents anyone can view using the industry-standard Adobe Reader®. (See "Saving artwork in Adobe PDF" on page 425.) Import layered Illustrator artwork into Adobe After Effects, and integrate easy-to-edit Illustrator graphics into your Adobe Premiere video productions. · · · · · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 10 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Learning about Adobe Illustrator Using Help | Contents | Index Back 11 · Create templates in Illustrator and define variable elements. Then use Adobe AlterCast TM image server software (available only in English) to replace the variable text and graphics automatically and generate an unlimited number of unique iterations of the design. (See "Working with data-driven graphics" on page 503.) Use the Save for Microsoft Office command to create a file you can use in a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet. (See "Saving artwork for Microsoft Office" on page 437.) · If you want to automate time-consuming processes Tight deadlines require efficient workflow, especially for designers and developers working in high-volume publishing environments. Illustrator lets you automate some of the most repetitive tasks, such as batch processing and creating variations of similar designs. · Build a basic template in Illustrator and define objects in the design as variables. Then use an automated script or an image server to produce unique variations, using data stored in any ODBC-compliant source. (See "Working with data-driven graphics" on page 503.) Automate repetitive tasks using the rich scripting support, which allows access to almost every function in Illustrator. Write scripts using JavaScript, AppleScript, or Microsoft Visual Basic. (See "Using scripts" on page 502.) Use the Illustrator Actions palette to group a series of commands into a single action. Then play back the action to repeat the entire set of steps automatically. You can even use the Batch command to apply an action to a folder of files and subfolders. (See "Using actions" on page 492.) · · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 11 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 12 What's New in Illustrator CS 3D effect Rendering objects in perspective is a time-honored way to give printed materials the illusion of depth. Now, Illustrator CS makes it easy to add 3D elements to your work, whether you're producing a logo, a package design, or a title for a video production. Using the integrated new 3D effect, you can transform type and other shapes you draw into 3D objects, and then rotate them in space and even customize their lighting. 3D shapes are "live," so changes you make to the original 2D object are automatically reflected in the 3D shape. For more information on the 3D effect, see "Creating 3D objects" on page 185. Scribble effect Have fun making vector artwork look loose and hand-drawn with the new live Scribble effect. Great for adding a child-like charm to artwork, the Scribble effect is also handy for quickly making formal design elements look casual and friendly, masking images, creating scratchboard-like illustrations, adding cross-hatching to a design, or creating animated wiggly lines. For more information on the Scribble effect, see "Making objects look hand-sketched" on page 287. Templates and other professionally-designed content Illustrator CS includes more than 200 real-world, professionally-designed templates-- including 50 Japanese language templates--that help you start typical projects quickly. Templates provide a range of design ideas and include custom-sized artboards, layers, styles, swatches, symbols, and more. Illustrator CS also includes a template file format, so you can save your own templates. For more information on using templates, see "Creating new documents" on page 62 and "Creating new templates" on page 63. In addition to templates, Illustrator CS comes with more than 100 free OpenType fonts (including Roman, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean fonts) and professional swatch and symbols libraries. To view a catalog of the content that comes with Illustrator CS, choose Help > Welcome Screen and click Cool Extras. Type enhancements Illustrator CS introduces a redesigned text engine and forward-looking features that make it easier than ever to set great-looking type. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 12 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 13 Paragraph and character styles Paragraph and character styles help you maintain high production standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design uses consistent formatting, whether for entire paragraphs or shorter segments, such as run-in heads or words that require particular emphasis. Styles also save you time because they enable you to apply a rich set of formatting attributes with a single click of a mouse. For more information on character and paragraph styles, see "Using character and paragraph styles" on page 375. OpenType font support The OpenType font standard was developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft, and brings the advantages of both the TrueType and PostScript font formats into a new format that takes advantage of Unicode character encoding. OpenType fonts use a single font file for both Macintosh and Windows computers, so you can move files from one platform to another without worrying about font substitution and other problems that cause text to reflow. A single OpenType font file can also include many more glyphs (a glyph is a visual representation of a character) than other font formats, including glyphs previously only available in expert sets and characters for nonwestern languages such as Greek and Cyrillic. In addition to these general benefits, Illustrator CS includes special OpenType commands for automatic context-sensitive substitution of alternate glyphs. When you select any of these options, Illustrator automatically replaces the default glyph for a particular character or combination of characters with any contextually appropriate alternative. For example, if you have the Fractions option selected and type 3/16 in an OpenType font that supports arbitrary fractions, the numbers will be automatically reformatted as a fraction; if you select the Swash option and the selected OpenType font includes alternate Swash glyphs, they will be used. For more information on OpenType font support, see "Applying OpenType features to characters" on page 360. Easy access to alternate glyphs The new Glyphs palette in Illustrator CS offers a fast, accessible way to see all of the glyphs in a font, such as Ornaments, Terminal Forms, Discretionary Ligatures, and more. Simply double-clicking inserts the selected glyph. Previously, you could access these special characters only by memorizing keyboard shortcuts or manually formatting individual characters using a separate "expert" version of a font that included the character you wanted. For more information on using the Glyphs palette, see "Inserting glyphs" on page 340. Columns, rows, and other area type enhancements Quickly produce multi-column designs by defining columns and rows in any text area. Specify the number of columns and rows, the width and height of those rows and columns, whether or not they're a fixed size, and the size of the gutter. You can also determine the size of the inset between the text and the object containing it, how the baseline is set, and whether text flows between linked objects from right to left or left to right. For more information on setting up rows and columns, see "Working with blocks of type" on page 328. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 13 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 14 Optical kerning and optical margin alignment With many fonts, the default spacing between characters is visually uneven or crowded, even when the kerning pairs built into the font are used. Designers have long used manual kerning to adjust the space between awkward-looking pairs of letters, but the process is time-consuming. To help balance your desire for quality against your drive to meet schedules, Illustrator CS introduces two features that automate kerning: · Optical kerning automatically kerns text to produce optimal spacing. When applied to a word, line, or paragraph, Illustrator analyzes the visual characteristics of text and automatically determines the ideal spacing for the characters--even when that text mixes different fonts and font sizes. Kerning is cumulative, so you can always adjust optically kerned text to suit your eye. For more information on using optical kerning, see "Adjusting kerning and tracking" on page 355. Optical margin alignment automatically adjusts the position of punctuation and text characters at either end of a line to make the edges of a text block look more visually even. You use optical alignment most often to hang punctuation, such as quotation marks and hyphens, but other characters are subtly shifted as well in order to produce typographically good-looking results. For more information on using optical margin alignment, see "Specifying hanging punctuation" on page 367. · Every-line Composer for optimized paragraph composition The new Every-line Composer in Illustrator CS gives you the ability to produce exquisitely typeset text without fine-tuning line breaks by hand. The main goal in setting longer runs of text--in brochures, packaging, and other materials you create with Illustrator--is to produce the most elegant line breaks you can with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting "rivers" of white space flowing from line to line. The Every-line Composer, a unique Adobe composition engine used in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop, examines all of the text in an area to determine the best combination of line breaks across the entire run. Illustrator CS also includes the Single-line Composer, which applies hyphenation and justification settings to one line of text at a time, just as Illustrator did in the past. For more information on the Every-line Composer and the Single-line Composer, see "Working with composition" on page 370. Custom tab leaders With Illustrator CS, you can customize the dot type and pattern for tab leaders, or you can design your own graphics to use as tab leaders. In addition, Illustrator now lets you set unlimited numbers of tabs. For more information on setting up tab leaders, see "Working with tabs" on page 371. WYSIWYG font menu The Font menu in Adobe Illustrator CS displays each font face you have installed, so you can choose the fonts you want to use visually. Experimenting with different faces is now faster and more direct, and you can see at a glance what format a font uses (for example, the green and black O indicates an OpenType font). If you prefer, you can also disable this option. For more information on previewing fonts, see "Previewing fonts" on page 352. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 14 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 15 Expanded support for Japanese typography Adobe Illustrator is the standard for design in most countries, and support for file sharing between different language versions has long made it possible to share designs globally. Illustrator CS expands this support with more sophisticated controls for formatting Japanese text. This includes customizable mojikumi rule sets for determining optimal character spacing, as well as editable kinsoku shori rule sets for handling Japanese punctuation, characters that cannot begin or end lines, and characters that can't be separated. Illustrator also includes other enhancements, such as automated tate-chu-yoko controls, a composite font editor, an IME editor for entering Japanese text, and a preference for hiding or showing Japanese text options in Roman versions of Illustrator. For more information on Japanese type features, see "Working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type" on page 378. New options for type on paths Illustrator CS expands your options for designing text on a path. The new Type on a Path submenu on the Type menu provides five preset alignment options, and the Type on a Path Options dialog box includes additional options for controlling the position of the text relative to the path. Now you can create a wider range of looks for projects that use path text with a minimum of effort. For more information on setting options for type on paths, see "Adjusting the position of type on a path" on page 336. On-screen highlighting of missing fonts Illustrator CS automatically highlights fonts that are used in a document but are not available on a computer system, so you can identify and fix problems easily. Then use the Find Font command (available in previous versions of Illustrator) to replace the missing fonts with installed ones or identify the missing fonts so you can install them. For more information on missing fonts, see "Handling missing fonts" on page 360. Enhanced hyphenation and justification controls Illustrator CS provides significantly enhanced hyphenation and justification controls. Control how long a word must be before Illustrator hyphenates it, whether Illustrator hyphenates capitalized words, and whether it favors better word and character spacing or fewer hyphens. New Justification controls allow you to set minimum, maximum, and desired settings for word spacing, letter spacing, glyph scaling, and more. For more information on setting up hyphenation and justification, see "Controlling hyphenation and justification" on page 369. Expanded language support Spell-check and hyphenate the text in your Illustrator documents in 29 languages, from U.S. and U.K. English, French, and German to Icelandic, Polish, Serbian, and Turkish. For more information on language support, see "Assigning a language" on page 359. Improved text linking and deletion Text linking is now more flexible: any text area, including path text, can be linked to any other text area, so it's possible to flow text from one area, onto a path, and then into a second area. Plus, you can now delete a linked text block without also deleting any text it contains--the text now flows back into the previous box. Illustrator also now reduces clutter in your documents by automatically deleting empty text blocks that are created by clicking a type tool and not entering text. For more information on text linking and deletion, see "Threading text between objects" on page 333 and "Unthreading text from objects" on page 334. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 15 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 16 Warning about text reflow Open documents created in older versions of Illustrator with confidence: you can choose to have the text in legacy documents remain just as it was designed until you click an insertion point to edit it, or you can choose to update all type objects when you open the file with Illustrator CS. For more information on your options for reflowing text, see "Updating text created in previous versions of Illustrator" on page 323. Enhanced PDF support Adobe Illustrator has used Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) as its native file format for several versions, making it easy for you, your clients, and others to open and view your artwork files in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. Now Illustrator CS introduces new support for Adobe PDF, including compatibility with Acrobat 6.0 and the Adobe PDF 1.5 format, extensive security options, and support for layers, printer's marks, and bleeds in PDF files. In addition, you can apply transparency flattener styles as you save PDF files and save PDF settings as presets to streamline PDF creation. For more information on PDF options, see "Saving artwork in Adobe PDF" on page 425. Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop Move layered files between Photoshop and Illustrator more easily. Text editability has been improved because the two programs now share the same underlying text composition technology. Plus, multiple spot channels can be imported and 16-bit color data can be converted to 8-bit on import, so you no longer have to keep two versions of your original file. Also, you can link Photoshop duotone and tritone PDF images and print them accurately from Illustrator. For more information on moving artwork between Illustrator and Photoshop, see "Importing artwork from Photoshop" on page 78, "About importing layers from Photoshop files" on page 80, and "Photoshop format (PSD)" on page 440. Expanded print capabilities One of the top priorities for Illustrator CS was to refine the printing experience and make Illustrator print jobs more efficient and reliable to output, whether to a desktop printer or a high-end print production device. To achieve this, Illustrator CS introduces a streamlined user interface and next-generation support for fast and reliable printing, so you can easily produce consistent results every time you print. Illustrator CS eliminates the Page Setup and Separations Setup dialog boxes, and consolidates their functionality in the comprehensive new Print dialog box. You can now specify all print settings in the Print dialog box, from tiling and custom page sizes to printer's marks, color management output profiles, and transparency flattener settings. This new, more unified interface makes it easier to specify printing options quickly and accurately to achieve the results you want. Other new printing features include an interactive print preview, convenient scaling options, intuitive tiling controls, time-saving print presets, improved consistency with transparency flattener presets, more flexible printer's marks, independent bleed settings, new separation options, and finer control when printing layers. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 16 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 17 For more information on print capabilities, see "Using the Print dialog box" on page 447. Adobe Version Cue Use Adobe Version CueTM features in Illustrator CS to increase your productivity when you work alone or collaborate with others. You can integrate Version Cue design management into your existing workflows within and across the Adobe ® Creative Suite applications. The Version Cue features in Illustrator CS are only compatible with the Adobe Version Cue Workspace, which is a feature that is only available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. (See "Working with Adobe Version Cue managed projects" on page 58) Faster performance Illustrator CS is faster across the board, so you can work more quickly. From copying and pasting to scrolling around the artboard, printing, and saving files, you can pursue your ideas in a more interactive environment. Tighter integration with Microsoft Office When you need to move artwork from Illustrator into a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet, the new Save For Microsoft Office command saves your graphics in a format that gives you great-looking results every time. Whether you're working on a Windows or Mac OS system, this new option saves you time by ensuring your artwork displays and prints beautifully when viewed in Microsoft Office documents. For more information on saving for Microsoft Office, see "Saving artwork for Microsoft Office" on page 437. Support for eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) Metadata is increasingly important in all types of publishing: when metadata is embedded in a file, publishing that file across print, the Web, eBooks and more can be automated more easily. Developed by Adobe, the eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an open XML framework that standardizes the creation, processing, and interchange of metadata across publishing workflows. By adding metadata in XMP, for example, keywords you add to your files can be indexed by Internet search engines, making your images more easily accessible online. Because the XMP standard is also supported by Photoshop CS, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and InDesign CS, the metadata information you enter in your Illustrator files can be maintained wherever you take the file. For more information on XMP, see "Adding metadata to documents" on page 443 or go to http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ main.html. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 17 Adobe Illustrator CS Help What's New in Illustrator CS Using Help | Contents | Index Back 18 Plus more... Input from customers has helped Adobe make many improvements to the features you rely on. Other enhancements are designed to make Illustrator more intuitive, so new users can get up to speed more quickly. Here's an overview of some of the user interface enhancements in this release: · Learn about Illustrator and how to make the most of key features: Watch a 90-minute Total Training video by expert author and trainer Deke McClelland included on a CD in the box. Learn about new features in Illustrator CS and access Tutorials and other free content by choosing options from the Welcome to Adobe Illustrator CS screen that appears when you first launch the program. Take advantage of richer support for the SVG file format: Illustrator now supports the use of SVG primitives, expanding your options for manipulating objects in the SVG files you import and export. Print and export linked EPS and PDF files that interact with transparency--including duotones--without embedding them. Open and save Style, Swatch, Brush, and Symbol libraries right from their respective palettes by choosing the Open Library and Save Library commands from the palette menus. Use a lock button on the Transform palette to scale objects proportionally. Specify a sample size in pixels for the Eyedropper tool. Choose a custom scale size for DXF and DWG files on import. Optimize and export WBMP graphics for use on wireless devices. Automate more tasks with Scripting enhancements, including the ability to automate all new features--such as the new Printing interface--with expanded scripting support. · · · · · · · · · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 18 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Tutorials Using Help | Contents | Index Back 19 Tutorials About tutorials The following tutorials are designed to give new users a quick tour of Illustrator. Before you get started, be sure you know how to create and save documents. (See "Creating new documents" on page 62 and "About saving artwork" on page 423.) In addition to these tutorials, Adobe provides a variety of resources to help you learn Illustrator. (See "Getting Help" on page 4.) For more advanced tutorials, go to the Illustrator Support Web site at http://www.adobe.com/support/products/illustrator.html and click the Tutorials link. Design a quick logo or Web button Adobe Illustrator provides a variety of tools for creating basic geometric shapes, as well as hundreds of professionally-designed symbols. Follow along and learn how to use shapes and symbols as building blocks for artwork. 1. Draw a shape. Hold the mouse down on a shape tool in the toolbox, and select the shape tool you want to use. Then drag in the document window to draw the shape. We selected the Ellipse tool and held down the Shift key while dragging to draw a circle. Holding down the Shift key tells Illustrator to constrain proportions. For example, you can use the Shift key with the Rectangle tool to draw a square. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 19 Adobe Illustrator CS Help Tutorials Using Help | Contents | Index Back 20 2. Fill the shape with color. Click the fill box in the toolbox. This tells Illustrator that you want to apply color inside the shape rather than to its stroke (or outline). Then click any swatch in the Swatches palette to fill the shape with color. (If the Swatches palette isn't showing, choose Window > Swatches.) If you don't like any of the default colors in the Swatches palette, there are several other ways to select a color. Double-click the fill box in the toolbox to select a color using the Color Picker, or choose Window > Color to select a color using the Color palette. (See "Selecting colors" on page 200.) Or click the triangle icon at the top right corner of the Swatches palette, and choose a swatch library from the Open Swatch Library submenu. (See "Creating swatch libraries" on page 209.) 3. Change the shape's stroke weight. If the Stroke palette isn't showing, choose Window > Stroke. In the Stroke palette, type a different value in the Weight text box, and press Enter or Return to apply the change. We increased the stroke weight to 3 points. Although we decided to stick with a black stroke, you can change the stroke color by clicking the stroke box in the toolbox and selecting a different color. (See "Applying color using the toolbox" on page 214.) 4. Place a symbol instance. If the Symbols palette isn't showing, choose Window > Symbols. The Symbols palette displays a variety of default symbols; however many additional symbols are available to you through symbol libraries. To open a symbol library, click the triangle icon at the top right corner of the Symbols palette, and choose an option from the Open Symbol Library submenu. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 20