The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P14

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P14: Sharon Steuer is the originator of The Illustrator Wow! Books. Whennot working on Wow! books, Sharon is a painter, illustrator, columnistfor creativepro.com, and the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop:A New Approach to Digital Art. She lives in Connecticut with her cats,Puma and Bear, and radio star husband, Jeff Jacoby. She is extremelygrateful to her co-authors, editors, testers, Wow! team members (pastand present), Adobe, and Peachpit for making this book possible....
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The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P14 Adobe Color picker gradients or gradient mesh objects, recognize that youll Illustrator now supports the be creating bitmapped images that will result in larger Adobe Color Picker. Double-click file sizes. on the color proxy in the Toolbox or on the Color palette to open • If you import or create rasterized art for the the Color Picker. Enable the Only Internet, rasterize at 72 ppi, not the default, to keep file Web Colors checkbox to limit the sizes small. Color Picker to Web safe colors. • To export a files layers or paths selectively, hide the Pixel units ones you dont want before exporting. Control-click (Mac)/Right mouse- click (Win) on the rulers after • If the object you want to export to Flash contains View>Show Rulers and select Pix- a dashed stroke, expand it using the Tip Outlining els to display the units as pixels. Dashed Strokes in the Drawing & Coloring chapter. Or you can use your operating systems clipboard to copy the Auto-opening select libraries stroke from Illustrator and paste it into Flash. To preserve Set any swatch library (Win- the dash and gap pattern of the Illustrator object, choose dow> Swatch Libraries) to open Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard and then select automatically when you launch PDF for the Copy As option. If you dont do this, the dash Illustrator by selecting Persistent and gap pattern will be converted to the default pattern from the palettes pop-up menu. in Flash. Choose it again to reset the pal- ette to close by default. • Choosing Export Al Layers to SWF Files turns each Illustrator layer into a separate Flash file. This is the SVG or SVGZ (Compressed)? preferred method of exporting Illustrator elements for SVG compressed is gzipped or animation. gnu-zipped, and is the W3C- sanctioned version of raw SVG. SVG The Adobe SVG Viewer automati- Illustrator supports the export of Scalable Vector cally decompresses the file on the Graphics (SVG). SVG is an emerging standard for a client browser and displays it as Web graphic format that contains a combination of ele- normal. So there is little difference ments such as vectors, gradients, type, raster effects, and between the formats, except that JavaScript events, all based on the popular XML stan- one is much smaller. An exception dard. SVG is also a text-based format, which means it can occurs when you use a database be easily edited even after the file has been uploaded to to serve information to a client. In a Web server. Well talk more about this later when we this case, you will need a script to discuss data-driven graphics. SVG is potentially a very decompress and then re-compress exciting file format, because it combines very small file the file.—Andrew T. Watanabe sizes with crisp artwork that, like Illustrator vector art,364 Chapter 11 Web & Animationcan be zoomed into and scaled up or down with no loss Pixel previewof quality. As with Flash, in order for exported SVG files Choose View >Pixel Preview andto be viewed in a browser, a special viewer (plug-in) is zoom in to 200% or more torequired. The SVG plug-in is automatically installed in display a rasterized preview ofyour browser when you install Illustrator. your vector artwork. The SVG format supports JavaScript interactivity aswell as static image display. To add a JavaScript event to No more SVG export?your artwork you must know JavaScript! Open the SVG Illustrator now lets you save asInteractivity palette (Window >SVG Interactivity); then, SVG directly from the Save andwith an object selected, choose an event from the pop-up Save As dialog box. If you checkmenu, and type a JavaScript command in the JavaScript the Preserve Illustrator Editingtext field. Capabilities option, a native ver- sion of the Al file will be includedDATA-DRIVEN GRAPHICS in the SVG file, allowing forWith Illustrators Variables palette, you can create art- complete editability in ...