Adobe illustrator cs4- P18

Adobe illustrator cs4- P18: Good designers have many tools at their disposal. Especially in an environmentwhere most designers have other powerful graphics applications, itcan be diffi cult to choose which one to use for a particular task. For example,a designer can apply soft drop shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, andInDesign—is one application any better than the others for this?
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Adobe illustrator cs4- P18484 CHAPTER 14: SAVING AND EXPORTING FILES Saving and Exporting Artboards One of the most highly requested features in Illustrator has finally arrived in Illustrator CS4—multiple art- boards (see Chapter 1). And just as you can create single files with multiple artboards, so can you save and export files with them as well. Choose File > Export, and choose your desired file format. In the Export dialog box, select Use Artboards (Figure 14.22), and specify All or a range of artboards to export. When Range is selected, Illustrator will export separate files for each artboard specified. File names will be appended with a 01, 02, 03, and so on. If the Use Artboards option is not selected and your file contains multiple artboards, a single file will be exported with the artboards converted to a single, “conjoined” artboard (Figure 14.23). Figure 14.22 Choose to export, or not export, multiple artboards. Figure 14.23 Illustrator then creates a separate file from each artboard (left) or a single file from multiple artboards (right). With the Save and Save As commands, the Use Artboards option is automatically selected for the native Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator Template, PDF, SVG, and SVGZ file formats. You have the option of selecting or not selecting the option with the EPS and FXG file formats. EXPORTING FILES FROM ILLUSTRATOR 485The Bitmap (.bmp) FormatBitmaps are raster-based files and are often used in older computer applica-tions. The bitmap format is also used by some applications for displayinglogos or bar codes.When exporting a bitmap, you can choose one of three different colormodels: RGB, Grayscale, or Bitmap. Bitmap creates a file that containsonly black-and-white pixels (Figure 14.24). Additionally, you can specifythe resolution for your image and choose whether to antialias the art. Figure 14.24 Many applica- tions (including Illustrator and QuarkXPress) allow you to change the color of a bitmap file that uses the Bitmap color model.The Targa (.tga) FormatThe Targa file format is a raster-based image format used mainly in videoapplications. For example, you might use the Targa file format to addIllustrator artwork as masks in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.When exporting a Targa file, you can choose one of two color models: RGBor Grayscale. Additionally, you can specify the resolution for your imageand choose whether to antialias the art.The Portable Network Graphic(.png) FormatThe PNG file format (pronounced “ping”) was originally formed as an openstandard format to replace the need for the GIF image file format, becauseof legal complications with those who developed the compression technol-ogy used in the GIF format.486 CHAPTER 14: SAVING AND EXPORTING FILES As you learned in Chapter 13, you can also create PNG files from Illustrator using the Save for Web & Devices feature. However, the PNG format also appears as an export format because the Save for Web & Devices feature is hardwired at 72 ppi. To export a PNG file at any other resolution, you need to use the PNG export function. The PNG format is a raster-based image format and is used for web design, for icon and interface design, and as a general image exchange format. In fact, the Apple operating systems Tiger and Leopard (Mac OS X versions 10.4 and 10.5) ...