Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual download pdf (Page 72)

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2 Customize the document in any of the following ways:

• Set up the document window as you want it to appear in new documents you create from the template. This

includes the magnification level, scroll position, ruler origin, guides, grids, crop areas, and options in the View

menu.

• Draw or import any artwork you want to appear in new documents you create from the template.

• Delete any existing swatches, styles, brushes, or symbols, you don’t want to retain.

• Create any new swatches, styles, brushes, and symbols, you want in the corresponding panels. You can also

import preset swatches, styles, brushes, symbols, and actions from a variety of libraries that come with Illustrator.

• Create any graph designs you want and add them to the Graph Design dialog box. You can also import preset

graph designs.

• Set the desired options in the Document Setup dialog box and Print Options dialog box.

3 Choose File > Save As Template.

4 In the Save As dialog box, select a location for the file, enter a filename, and click Save.

Illustrator saves the file in AIT (Adobe Illustrator Template) format.

Specify document setup options

At any point you can change your document’s default setup options for units of measure, transparency grid display,

background color, and type settings such as language, quote style, superscript and subscript size, and exportability. The

Edit Artboards button closes this dialog box and activates the Artboard tool. Use this button if you want to modify your

artboards.

1 Choose File > Document Setup or click the Document Setup button in the Control panel (this button is visible when

nothing is selected).

2 Specify options as desired.

Note: The Simulate Colored Paper option is useful if you plan to print the document on colored paper. For example, if you

draw a blue object on a yellow background, the object appears green. The simulation is performed only when the

transparency grid is not shown.

For specific information on these options, see related topics.

Open a file

You can open files that were created in Illustrator as well as compatible files that were created in other applications.

• To open an existing file, choose File > Open. Locate the file, and click Open.

• To open a recently saved file, choose the file from the Open A Recent Item list in the Welcome screen, or choose File

> Open Recent Files, and choose a file from the list.

• To open and preview a file using Adobe Bridge, choose File > Browse In Bridge to open Adobe Bridge. Locate the

file and choose File > Open With > Adobe Illustrator CS5.

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