The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P2

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P2: 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- P2for best results you should set all options from withinIllustrators Print dialog box). As previously mentioned, the preview area in thePrint dialog box shows you the pages printable area. Italso lets you scale artwork to order as you go to print it,while choosing exactly which artwork in the documentyou want to print. So you no longer have to worry aboutchanging the size of the Artboard itself in order to printthings at a different scale. Illustrator CS also lets you save your Print settings as Illustrators one-stop Print dialog box—notetime-saving presets, so if youre designing billboards or the preview area in the lower left corner, which shows you the printable area of the page, andother very large media sizes, you can set the appropriate lets you adjust and scale your artwork to printscale and then save it as a Print preset for easy access.MAKING YOUR MOVES EASIERLook over this section to make sure youre aware of themany ways to select tools and access features. Learningthese simple techniques will free you from mousing to thetoolbox or depending on the pull-down menus. Mac users: Its recommended that you set all your options in Illustrators Print dialog box,Keyboard shortcuts for tools and navigation rather than through the OS-provided Page Setup dialog box. If you forget, Illustrator will remindNeed to access a tool? Press a key. Press T to choose the you with the message shown aboveType tool, P for the Pen tool, and so on. Choose any toolin the toolbox by pressing its keyboard shortcut. (Eachshortcut used to be a single key, but there are now somany tools that a few of them have double-key shortcuts.) Custom keyboard shortcutsTo learn the default keyboard shortcuts for your tools, To assign a shortcut to a menuwith Show Tool Tips enabled (this is on by default), hold item or tool, select Edit > Key-the cursor over any tool in the toolbox, and its keyboard board Shortcuts. Making anyshortcut will appear in parentheses next to the tool name changes will rename the set(toggle the Tool Tip option in General Preferences). Custom. If you choose a short-Note: Keyboard shortcuts wont work while youre in text cut already in use, you will get aediting mode. Press Escape to leave text editing mode and warning that it is currently beinguse a keyboard shortcut. Your text will remain unchanged, used and that reassigning it willwith edits preserved. remove it from the item it is cur- rently assigned to. When you exitChanging keyboard shortcuts the dialog box you will be askedTo change a shortcut for a tool or menu item, open the to save your custom set. You cantKeyboard Shortcut dialog box (Edit > Keyboard Short- overwrite a preset. Chapter 1 Illustrator Basics 5 Resizing and stroke weight cuts). Making a change to a shortcut will change the Set If you double-click the Scale tool, name to Custom. When youre finished making changes you can resize your selection with and want to exit the dialog box, you will be asked to save or without altering line weights: your shortcuts to a new file. This file will be saved in • To scale a selection, while also the Illustrator application folder and will end in .kys. scaling line weights, make sure As long as these file types are located in the application to enable the Scale Strokes & Ef- folder, they will be available as choices in the Set pop-up fects checkbox. menu. In addition, every time you make any changes to a • To scale a selection while saved set (not a default preset), youll be asked if you want maintaining your line weights, to overwrite that set. You can also use the Save button to disable Scale Strokes & Effects. create a new keyboard shortcut file. Click the Export Text • To decrease line weights (50%) button if you need a text file as a reference for a specific without scaling objects, first set of shortcuts or need to print them. scale the selection (200%) with Note: You cant change most palette items, but the few Scale Strokes & Effects disabled. you can change are found at the botto ...