The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P3

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P3: 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- P3More about controlling the size of your files In a jam? Theres help availableThe major factors that can increase your file size are the Adobe pro-inclusion of image objects, path pattern, brushes and ink vides manypen objects, complex patterns, a large number of blends ways to helpand gradients (especially gradient mesh objects and gra- you learn Il-dient-to-gradient blends), linked bitmapped images, and lustrator andtransparency. Although linked bitmaps can be large, the troubleshootsame image embedded as an image object is significantly problems. Findlarger. If your Illustrator file contains linked images, and help under the Help menu, alongyou need to save the entire file in EPS (for placement with instant access to Adobe On-and printing in other programs), you have the option line. You can also access AdobeInclude Linked Files. Most service bureaus highly rec- Online by clicking the flower iconommend this option, as it will embed placed images in on top of the Toolbox.your Illustrator file and make printing from page layoutprograms and film recorders much more predictable (be Is Raster the answer?sure to see the Tip Proofing your prints at left). How- Most printing problems in Illustra-ever, since including placed images will further increase tor CS involve transparency andthe file size, wait until youve completed an image and flattening. The optimal setting forare ready to place it into another program before you the Raster/Vector slider in yoursave a copy with placed images embedded. Whether or flattening settings is all the way tonot you choose to embed linked images, you must collect Vector, but if youre having trou-all of the files that have been linked into your Illustrator ble printing, you can try settingdocuments and transport them along with your Illustra- it all the way to Raster which maytor file. Illustrator makes your task easier if you choose help in some cases. The flatten-File > Document Info > Linked Images, which outputs a ing settings can be accessed viatext file of all images in your document. Press Save to cre- the Print dialog box and the newate a text file that you can keep for future reference or give Flattener Preview palette, amongto your service bureau as a record of the images included other places. See the Transparencyin your files. & Appearances chapter for details • about the many ways to controlACTIONS flattening settings in Illustrator.Actions are a set of commands or a series of events thatyou can record and save as a set in the Actions palette. The proof is in the PreviewOnce a set is recorded, you can play back an action in the Want the best on-screen previewsame order in which you recorded it, to automate a job for your art? Choose View >Over-you do repeatedly (such as a production task or special print Preview for the best way toeffect). proof color on your screen and to Select the action in the Actions palette and activate see how your art will look whenit by clicking the Play icon at the bottom of the palette, printed. Chapter 1 Illustrator Basics 35 by choosing Play from the pop-up menu, or by assigning the action to a keyboard F key (function key) so you can play the action with a keystroke. You can select an action set, a single action, or a command within an action to play. To exclude a command from playing within an action, disable the checkbox to the left of the command. In order to play some types of actions, you may have to first select an object or text. Load action sets using the pop-up menu. (You can find sets of actions on the Adobe Illustrator CS CD in the Illustrator Extras folder, and in the WOW Actions folder on the Wow! CD.) ...