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Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual (495 pages)


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Table of contents

ILLUSTRATOR

1

Copyright

2

Contents

3

Chapter 1: Getting started

7

Adobe Help

8

Using Help in the product

9

Accessibility features

10

Resources

11

Illustrator CS3 videos

12

Installed resources

13

Bridge Home

14

Adobe Design Center

15

Adobe Developer Center

16

Customer support

16

Downloads

16

What’s new

17

Better integration

18

Enhanced workplace efficiency

18

Path editing

19

Point selection

19

Point alignment

19

Eraser tool

19

Crop Area tool

19

Chapter 2: Work area

20

Hide or show all panels

21

Display panel menu options

21

About screen modes

22

Using the status bar

22

Control panel overview

23

Customizing the workspace

24

Move panels

25

Manipulate panel groups

25

Stack free-floating panels

26

Resize or minimize panels

26

Minimize button

27

Panels collapsed to icons

27

Panels expanded from icons

27

Tools panel overview

29

Select a tool

31

Change tool pointers

31

Selection tool gallery

31

User Guide

33

Type tool gallery

34

Painting tool gallery

34

Reshaping tool gallery

35

Symbolism tool gallery

36

Graph tool gallery

37

Files and templates

39

Create a custom document

41

1 Do one of the following:

41

Cropping artwork

44

Use crop area rulers

45

Crop area options

46

Viewing artwork

47

Rulers, grids, and guides

52

Use the grid

53

Use guides

54

About Smart Guides

54

Smart Guide preferences

55

1 Select the Measure tool

55

Setting preferences

56

Undo and redo changes

57

Automating tasks

57

Chapter 3: Drawing

58

Drawing flares

66

Drawing with the Pencil tool

67

Drawing with the Pen tool

69

Draw curves with the Pen tool

70

Editing paths

74

Joining endpoints

77

Using the Smooth tool

79

Tracing artwork

83

Tracing options

84

Symbols panel overview

89

Place a symbol

89

Create a symbol

90

Use 9-slice scaling

90

Edit or redefine a symbol

92

Symbol libraries

93

Symbolism tool options

97

Chapter 4: Color

99

See also

100

About process colors

104

Selecting colors

105

Using and creating swatches

108

❖ Do one of the following:

110

Managing swatches

113

Working with color groups

115

ILLUSTRATOR CS3

117

Live Color overview

118

3 Do one of the following:

124

Assign colors to your artwork

125

Row F. Recolor Artwork

127

Reduce colors in your artwork

128

Adjusting colors

130

Chapter 5: Color management

134

Keeping colors consistent

136

Set up color management

138

Proofing colors

143

Soft-proof colors (Acrobat)

144

Working with color profiles

147

Color settings

152

Color conversion options

155

About rendering intents

155

Chapter 6: Painting

157

Fill and Stroke boxes

163

Live Paint groups

164

Modify Live Paint groups

168

About brushes

171

Work with brush libraries

173

Apply brush strokes

173

Paintbrush tool options

174

Remove brush strokes

174

Brush options

176

Scatter brush options

177

Art brush options

178

Pattern brush options

178

Delete a mesh point

192

Move a mesh point

192

Patterns

193

Selecting objects

199

Isolate a group

201

Isolate a sublayer

201

Exit isolation mode

201

Repeat or invert a selection

207

Save a selection

207

Group or ungroup objects

207

Reflect objects

215

Using layers

217

Create a new layer

219

Consolidate layers and groups

220

Stacking objects

222

Duplicating objects

223

Chapter 8: Reshaping objects

226

Transform panel

227

Reshape using envelopes

232

Mesh grid envelope

233

Combining objects

235

Pathfinder options

236

Apply Pathfinder effects

236

About compound shapes

238

Work with compound shapes

239

About compound paths

240

Cutting and dividing objects

241

Clipping masks

243

Blending objects

245

Create blends

246

Blend options

247

2 Do one of the following:

249

Creating 3D objects

250

Extruding an object

251

Revolving an object

252

Extrude & Bevel options

253

Revolve options

254

Surface shading options

254

Lighting options

255

Add a custom bevel path

256

Map artwork to a 3D object

257

6 Do any of the following:

258

Importing files

259

Update modified links

261

Embed a linked file

263

Unembed a linked file

263

Relink an embedded file

263

Edit original artwork

263

Importing bitmap images

264

Importing Adobe PDF files

265

Importing AutoCAD files

268

Photoshop import options

268

Saving artwork

270

Exporting artwork

275

Flash export options

277

Creating Adobe PDF files

282

Adobe PDF presets

284

Customize PDF presets

285

Adobe PDF options

286

About PDF/X standards

287

PDF compatibility levels

287

File information and metadata

293

Chapter 10: Type

295

Working with area type

298

Working with type on a path

303

Scaling and rotating type

306

Assign languages to text

308

About Unicode

308

About fonts

309

OpenType fonts

309

Previewing fonts

310

Specify a typeface size

310

Find and replace fonts

310

Formatting type

311

Find and replace text

313

Convert type to outlines

318

Line and character spacing

320

Kern and track

321

Special characters

322

Formatting paragraphs

325

Adjust paragraph spacing

328

Hyphenation and line breaks

330

Prevent words from breaking

331

Composition methods

331

Set tabs

333

Repeat tabs

333

Move tabs

333

Remove tabs

334

Add tab leaders

334

Paragraph Styles panel

335

Remove style overrides

336

Exporting text

337

Formatting Asian characters

339

Specify a burasagari option

346

Creating composite fonts

347

Delete a composite font

350

Export a composite font

350

Update selected legacy text

351

Appearance attributes

352

Remove appearance attributes

354

About effects and filters

356

Artistic filters and effects

363

Creating sketches and mosaics

370

Graphic styles

372

Create graphic styles

373

Apply a graphic style

374

Work with graphic styles

374

Use graphic style libraries

375

Chapter 12: Web graphics

376

Slices and image maps

377

Camping Gear

378

Clothing

378

Select slices

379

Set slice options

379

Show or hide slices

381

Create image maps

381

About SVG

381

Creating animations

384

Optimizing images

387

Navigate in the dialog box

388

Optimize an image for the web

389

Web graphic formats

392

JPEG optimization options

392

Sort a color table

397

G. Encoding menu

402

Set output options

403

HTML output options

404

Slice output options

404

Background output settings

406

Saving Files output settings

406

Chapter 13: Printing

407

Printing color separations

409

Setting up pages for printing

412

Printer’s marks and bleed

414

PostScript printing

416

1 Choose File > Print

421

Overprinting

430

Set up overprinting

431

Overprint black

431

Trapping

432

Create a spread or choke

434

Trap a line

435

Print presets

436

Apply print presets

437

Edit print presets

437

Delete print presets

437

Chapter 14: Automating tasks

439

Play an action on a file

440

Record an action

440

Insert a stop

442

Manage action sets

444

Data-driven graphics

447

3 Click OK

452

Chapter 15: Graphs

453

Enter graph data

454

Enter labels

455

Pie graph data

456

Column graph data

456

Formatting graphs

457

General graph options

459

Add drop shadows

459

Format pie graphs

460

Combine different graph types

460

Select parts of a graph

461

Format the text in a graph

461

About graph designs

462

Add totals to a column design

464

Create a marker design

464

Reuse a graph design

465

Customize keyboard shortcuts

466

Default keyboard shortcuts

467

Keys for viewing artwork

468

Keys for drawing

468

Keys for selecting

470

Keys for moving selections

470

Keys for editing shapes

470

Keys for painting objects

471

Keys for transforming objects

472

Keys for working with type

472

Keys for using panels

474

Keys for the Actions panel

474

Keys for the Brushes panel

474

Keys for the Color panel

475

Keys for the Gradient panel

475

Keys for the Layers panel

475

Keys for the Swatches panel

476

Keys for the Transform panel

476

Function keys

477

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