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A Corner widgets (four per rectangle) B Dragging a Corner widget causes the corner radii to change C Scale/Rotate widgets (eight per
rectangle)
2 The Transform panel is displayed (or, comes into focus if already open). If the Transform panel does not open:
• Press Shift + F8, or,
• Click Windows menu > Transform.
Note: To specify if the Transform panel appears or not when you create a rectangle or rounded rectangle, use the Show
on Shape Creation option in the Transform panel's flyout menu.
A Rectangle width B Rectangle angle C Scale corners proportionally D Link Corner radius values E Radius of the corner F Constrain
rectangle width and height G
Rectangle height H Corner type dropdown
3 If multiple Live Rectangles are selected:
• When the Rectangle or Rounded Rectangle tool is selected, you can modify properties of individual shapes using
the on-screen widgets.
• You can modify the properties of multiple shapes, using the Transform panel.
4 Use your mouse on the Live Rectangleor the fields in the Transform panel (Rectangle Properties area) to do any of
the following:
• Change the height or width of the rectangle. The corners are maintained, and the radii do not change.
• Rotate the rectangle, using the Scale/Rotate widget.
• Use the Scale Corner Radii For Shapes checkbox to ensure that corner radii increase or decrease in direct
proportion to the object's transformation.
- Legal notices 2
- Contents 3
- Chapter 1: What's new 7
- Adobe Stock 8
- 10x faster zoom, pan, scroll 8
- Recover data in your files 9
- Last updated 6/5/2015 10
- GPU Performance 11
- Touch workspace enhancements 11
- Tool enhancements 12
- Other important enhancements 12
- Chapter 2: Workspace 13
- Hide or show all panels 14
- Display panel options 14
- Search For Help box 15
- About screen modes 15
- Using the status bar 15
- ❖ Do any of the following: 16
- Customizing the workspace 17
- Dock and undock panels 18
- Move panels 19
- Add and remove panels 19
- Manipulate panel groups 19
- Stack floating panels 20
- Resize panels 20
- Use panel menus 21
- Save and switch workspaces 22
- Tools panel overview 23
- View hidden tools 24
- View tool options 24
- Move the Tools panel 24
- Select a tool 25
- Change tool pointers 25
- Tool galleries 26
- Type tool gallery 28
- Painting tool gallery 29
- Reshaping tool gallery 30
- Symbolism tool gallery 33
- Graph tool gallery 33
- Improved User Interface 35
- Safe Mode 38
- Using Safe Mode 39
- Configurable preferences 43
- Important considerations 43
- Touch Workspace 44
- Switching between workspaces 45
- Tool bar 46
- Control panel 47
- Document bar 47
- Artboard overview 48
- Printing and saving artboards 49
- Use rulers 50
- Use the grid 51
- Use guides 51
- Smart Guides 52
- Smart Guide preferences 53
- Custom Tools Panels 54
- Viewing artwork 56
- About print tiling 57
- Zoom in or out 57
- Change the view area 57
- Navigator panel overview 58
- View artwork as outlines 58
- Create a new window 59
- Create a new view 59
- Rename or delete a view 59
- Switch between views 59
- Setting preferences 60
- About plug-in modules 61
- Using multiple artboards 62
- Artboards panel 63
- Create an artboard 64
- Delete an artboard 64
- Select and view artboards 64
- Edit artboards 65
- Move an artboard 65
- Reorder artboards 65
- Rearrange artboards 65
- Customize artboard names 66
- 9-point referencing 66
- Undo and redo changes 67
- Working with ConnectNow 68
- Files and templates 68
- About new document profiles 69
- Create new documents 70
- About templates 71
- Create a new template 71
- Open a file 72
- Import and Export Settings 73
- File Info dialog 74
- Chapter 3: Drawing 76
- About paths 77
- Drawing modes 80
- Drawing with the Pen tool 81
- Draw curves with the Pen tool 82
- Finish drawing a path 83
- Drawing with the Pencil tool 85
- Drawing flares 87
- Create a flare 88
- Create a default flare 88
- Draw a flare 88
- Draw rectangles and squares 89
- Draw ellipses 90
- Draw polygons 91
- Draw stars 91
- Draw arcs 91
- Draw spirals 91
- Draw grids 92
- Editing paths 93
- Smooth and simplify paths 94
- Simplify paths 95
- Erase artwork 97
- Eraser tool options 98
- Split a path 99
- Viewing the pixel grid 101
- Adjust path segments 102
- Move straight segments 103
- Delete a segment 104
- Extend an open path 104
- Connect two open paths 104
- Join two endpoints 104
- Join two or more paths 105
- Pen tool rubberband preview 106
- Curvature Tool 106
- Using Image Trace 107
- Tracing options 108
- Enhanced Pencil Tool 109
- Anchor Point enhancements 111
- About symbols 114
- Symbols panel overview 115
- Symbol registration point 116
- Place or create a symbol 116
- Add sublayers for symbols 117
- Use 9-slice scaling 117
- Work with symbol instances 118
- Expand a symbol instance 119
- Reset transformations 119
- Edit or redefine a symbol 120
- Symbol libraries 120
- About symbol sets 121
- Create symbol sets 122
- Resize symbol instances 123
- Rotate symbol instances 123
- Stain symbol instances 123
- 2 Do one of the following: 124
- Perspective drawing 125
- Define grid presets 126
- Move the perspective grid 128
- Attach objects to perspective 132
- Transforming objects 133
- Automatic plane positioning 135
- Move plane to match object 138
- Scale objects in perspective 138
- About Perspective Grid 139
- Trace artwork 141
- More Help topics 143
- Use a tracing preset 144
- Release a tracing object 145
- Overview 145
- Chapter 4: Color 147
- Grayscale 150
- Color spaces and gamuts 150
- About spot and process colors 151
- About spot colors 151
- About process colors 152
- Selecting colors 153
- Display the Color Picker 154
- Display only web-safe colors 154
- Color panel overview 155
- Using and creating swatches 156
- Use swatch libraries 158
- Add all document colors 159
- Create color swatches 160
- Manage swatches 161
- Color groups (harmonies) 162
- Color Guide panel overview 163
- Create color groups 166
- Save changes to a color group 169
- Assign colors to your artwork 173
- Reduce colors in your artwork 176
- About Kuler 178
- View and use themes 178
- Color Themes panel 179
- Adjusting colors 180
- Blend colors 181
- Change the tint of a color 182
- Invert multiple colors 182
- Convert colors to grayscale 183
- Mix overlapping colors 184
- Chapter 5: Painting 186
- About fills and strokes 187
- Fill and Stroke controls 188
- Blob Brush tool guidelines 189
- Create merged paths 190
- Blob Brush tool options 190
- Using the Width tool 192
- About the Width tool 192
- Width tool controls 193
- Saving width profiles 194
- Live Paint groups 195
- Live Paint limitations 196
- Create Live Paint groups 197
- Select faces and edges 198
- Modify Live Paint groups 199
- ❖ Do one of the following: 200
- Live Paint Bucket options 201
- Set Live Paint gap options 202
- About brushes 203
- Brushes panel overview 204
- Work with brush libraries 204
- Apply brush strokes 205
- Paintbrush tool options 205
- Remove brush strokes 206
- Create or modify brushes 206
- Brush options 207
- Scatter brush options 208
- Art brush options 209
- Segmented art brush 210
- Pattern brush options 211
- Bristle brush 212
- Using the Bristle brush 213
- • 0 = 100 214
- • 1 = 10% 214
- • 9 = 90 214
- About transparency 215
- Transparency panel overview 216
- View transparency in artwork 216
- Change the opacity of artwork 216
- Create an opacity mask 218
- About blending modes 221
- Gradients 223
- Patterns 225
- Create pattern swatches 226
- Modify patterns 230
- Create mesh objects 231
- Edit mesh objects 232
- Stroke an object 233
- Create dotted or dashed lines 235
- Add arrowheads 236
- Customize arrowheads 236
- Create and edit patterns 237
- Apply or edit a gradient 238
- Create an elliptical gradient 239
- Painting 240
- Selecting objects 242
- Isolate artwork for editing 243
- Isolate a path inside a group 244
- Isolate a layer or sublayer 244
- Select behind objects 245
- Select filled objects 247
- Repeat or invert a selection 250
- Group or ungroup objects 251
- Expand objects 251
- Move objects 252
- Move an object by dragging 253
- Move multiple objects at once 254
- Align and distribute objects 255
- Rotate objects 257
- Reflect or flip objects 259
- Reflect by specifying an axis 260
- About layers 261
- Layers panel overview 261
- Create a layer 263
- Consolidate layers and groups 264
- Duplicating objects 266
- Stacking objects 268
- Chapter 7: Reshaping objects 270
- Scale objects 272
- Scale multiple objects 273
- Shear objects 274
- Distort objects 275
- Reshape using envelopes 276
- About envelopes 277
- Reset an envelope 278
- Remove an envelope 278
- Envelope options 278
- Combining objects 279
- Pathfinder options 280
- Apply Pathfinder effects 281
- Summary of Pathfinder effects 281
- Compound shapes 282
- Work with compound shapes 283
- Create a compound shape 283
- Modify a compound shape 283
- Compound paths 284
- Cutting and dividing objects 286
- Clipping masks 287
- About clipping masks 288
- Edit a clipping mask 289
- About the Shape Builder Tool 290
- Reshaping objects 293
- Working with Live Corners 296
- The Corners dialog 297
- Change the corner style 298
- Considerations 298
- Blending objects 299
- Create blends 300
- Blend options 301
- 1 Select the blended object 302
- Pen Tool 303
- Convert Anchor Point Tool 303
- Direct Selection Tool 304
- Creating 3D objects 305
- Create 3D objects 306
- Set options 307
- Extrude & Bevel options 308
- Revolve options 309
- Surface shading options 309
- Lighting options 310
- Add a custom bevel path 311
- Map artwork to a 3D object 312
- OS-supported Gestures 315
- Importing artwork files 318
- Links panel overview 319
- Work with the Links panel 320
- Update modified links 320
- Embed a linked file 321
- Importing bitmap images 322
- Importing Adobe PDF files 323
- Adobe PDF placement options 324
- Importing EPS files 325
- Importing DCS files 326
- Importing AutoCAD files 326
- Photoshop import options 327
- Saving artwork 328
- About saving artwork 329
- Save in Illustrator format 329
- Save in EPS format 330
- Save in SVG format 331
- Package files 334
- Unembed images 336
- Share on Behance 336
- Upload new artwork to Behance 337
- Creating Adobe PDF files 340
- Create Adobe PDF files 341
- Adobe PDF presets 342
- Customize PDF presets 344
- Load PDF presets 344
- Adobe PDF options 345
- General options for PDF 346
- Adding security to PDF files 350
- Security options 350
- Exporting artwork 351
- AutoCAD export options 353
- Flash export options 353
- JPEG export options 356
- Photoshop export options 356
- PNG export options 357
- File information and metadata 358
- Extract CSS 360
- Style to the clipboard E 361
- Sample CSS Code 362
- Links information 364
- Chapter 9: Type 368
- Export text to a text file 369
- Tag text for export to Flash 369
- Creating text 370
- Enter text at a point 371
- Enter text in an area 371
- Manage the text area 372
- Wrap text around an object 376
- Wrap text 377
- Set wrap options 377
- Unwrap text from an object 377
- Creating type on a path 378
- Scaling and rotating type 382
- Check spelling 383
- Edit the spelling dictionary 383
- Assign languages to text 384
- About Unicode 384
- About fonts 385
- OpenType fonts 385
- Previewing fonts 386
- Specify a typeface size 386
- Find and replace fonts 386
- Work with missing fonts 387
- The enhanced Find Font dialog 387
- Substituted fonts preference 390
- Text enhancements 391
- Working with Typekit Fonts 391
- Filtering Typekit fonts 392
- Arabic and Hebrew type 393
- Text direction 394
- Digit Types 394
- Legacy font support 395
- Default fonts 395
- Automatic Kashida insertion 395
- Ligatures 396
- Hyphenation 397
- Find and replace 398
- Diacritical marks 398
- Line and character spacing 399
- Shift the baseline 400
- Kern and track 400
- Adjust kerning 401
- Adjust tracking 401
- Tabs panel overview 402
- Set tabs 402
- Repeat tabs 403
- Move tabs 403
- Special characters 404
- Glyphs panel overview 405
- OpenType panel overview 406
- Formatting Asian characters 407
- Display Asian type options 408
- Use tate-chu-yoko 409
- Use warichu 411
- Use mojikumi 412
- Create a mojikumi set 413
- Work with mojikumi sets 413
- Use kinsoku 414
- Specify a burasagari option 415
- Use kurikaeshi moji shori 415
- Formatting type 416
- Find and replace text 417
- Character panel overview 418
- Apply all caps and small caps 419
- Change capitalization styles 420
- Convert type to outlines 422
- Use smart punctuation 423
- Formatting paragraphs 424
- Align text 425
- Justify text 425
- Indent text 426
- Adjust paragraph spacing 427
- Hanging punctuation 427
- Hyphenation and line breaks 428
- Prevent words from breaking 429
- Composition methods 429
- Update selected legacy text 431
- Remove style overrides 432
- Creating composite fonts 433
- Delete a composite font 435
- Export a composite font 436
- Appearance attributes 438
- Edit an attribute 439
- Manage appearance attributes 440
- Creating special effects 442
- Working with effects 443
- About raster effects 444
- Rasterization options 444
- Summary of effects 446
- Artistic effects 448
- Blur effects 448
- Brush Strokes effects 449
- Pixelate effects 450
- Sharpen effect 450
- Sketch effects 450
- Texture effects 451
- Video effects 451
- Create a drop shadow 452
- Creating sketches and mosaics 453
- Create a mosaic 454
- Graphic styles 455
- Create graphic styles 456
- Apply a graphic style 457
- Use graphic style libraries 457
- Work with graphic styles 458
- Chapter 11: Web graphics 460
- About pixel preview mode 461
- • Color Mode: RGB 462
- • Raster Resolution: 72 ppi 462
- Slices and image maps 463
- Create slices 464
- Select slices 465
- Set slice options 465
- Lock slices 466
- Adjust slice boundaries 466
- Remove slices 466
- Show or hide slices 467
- Create image maps 467
- About SVG 467
- Apply SVG effects 468
- SVG events 469
- Creating animations 470
- Create Flash animations 471
- Web graphics 472
- Chapter 12: Printing 474
- Print dialog box options 475
- Print multiple artboards 476
- Scale a document for printing 477
- Printing color separations 479
- Preview color separations 480
- Print color separations 480
- Color separation modes 481
- Printer’s marks and bleeds 482
- Add printer’s marks 483
- About bleeds 483
- Add a bleed 483
- PostScript printing 484
- Printing long, complex paths 485
- About flattening 488
- Printing 489
- Highlight (preview) options 490
- Overprinting 500
- Trapping 501
- Create a trap 502
- Trap options 503
- Create a spread or choke 504
- Trap a line 504
- Print presets 505
- Apply print presets 506
- Edit print presets 506
- Delete print presets 506
- Delete crop marks 507
- Use Japanese-style crop marks 508
- Chapter 13: Automating tasks 509
- Play an action on a file 510
- Record an action 510
- Insert a path 511
- Insert selection of an object 511
- Insert a stop 512
- Specify playback speed 513
- Edit and rerecord actions 513
- Manage action sets 514
- Organize action sets 515
- Automation with scripts 516
- Install a script 517
- Variables panel overview 517
- Create variables 518
- Edit variables 518
- Delete variables 519
- Edit dynamic objects 519
- Data sets 520
- About variable libraries 520
- Chapter 14: Graphs 522
- Creating a new chart 523
- Replacing chart artwork 524
- Editing chart artwork 525
- Modifying chart layout 526
- Editing chart data 528
- Creating graphs 529
- Adjust the width of columns 530
- Enter graph data 530
- Enter labels 531
- Formatting graphs 533
- General graph options 535
- Add drop shadows 535
- Format pie graphs 535
- Pie graph options 536
- Combine different graph types 536
- Select parts of a graph 537
- Format the text in a graph 537
- About graph designs 537
- Create a column design 538
- Add totals to a column design 539
- Create a marker design 540
- Reuse a graph design 541
- Customize keyboard shortcuts 542
- Default keyboard shortcuts 543
- Keys for viewing artwork 544
- Keys for drawing 545
- Keys for selecting 547
- Keys for moving selections 548
- Keys for editing shapes 548
- Keys for painting objects 549
- Keys for transforming objects 550
- Keys for working with type 551
- Keys for using panels 552
- Keys for the Actions panel 552
- Keys for the Brushes panel 553
- Keys for the Color panel 553
- Keys for the Gradient panel 553
- Keys for the Layers panel 554
- Keys for the Swatches panel 554
- Keys for the Transform panel 555
- Function keys 555
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