The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P8

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P8: 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- P8 You can also release an object from a Text thread by The quick-changing Type toolselecting it, then choosing Type > Threaded Text > Release When using the regular TypeSelection. Or, if you want to remove the threading from tool, look at your cursor veryan object while leaving text in place, select it and choose carefully in these situations:Type > Threaded Text > Remove Threading. • If you move the regular Type tool over a closedWRAPPING TEXT AROUND OBJECTS path, the cursor changesIllustrator CS handles text wrapping a little differently to the Area type icon.from previous versions. Text wrapping is now an object • If you move the Type toolattribute and is set specifically for each object that will over an open path, thehave text wrapped around it (known as a wrap object). cursor will change to theFirst, make sure that the object you want to wrap text Path type icon.around is above the text you want to wrap around itin the Layers palette. Then select the wrap object and Type tool jugglingchoose Object >Text Wrap >Make Text Wrap. The Text To toggle a Type tool between itsWrap Options dialog box will appear. Here, youll choose vertical and horizontal mode, firstthe amount of offset and also have the option to choose make sure nothing is selected.Invert Wrap (which reverses the side of the object that Hold the Shift key down to toggletext wraps around). You can also wrap text around a the tool to the opposite mode.group of objects. In order to add a new object to the textwrapped group, just drag its icon in the Layers palette Path type and closed pathsinto the group. To release an object from text wrapping, Keep in mind that Path type canselect it and choose Object > Text Wrap > Release Text be applied to both open andWrap. To change the options for an existing wrap object, closed paths—even though theselect it and choose Object > Text Wrap > Text Wrap feedback you get from yourOptions. (For more information on text wrapping, see the cursor may seem to indicate thatUser Guide.) this Path type can only be applied to open paths.CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH STYLESAs in previous versions, Illustrators Character and Para-graph palettes (Window > Type > Character and Win- Making a new text objectdow > Type > Paragraph) let you format text by changing Re-select the Type tool to endone attribute at a time. Illustrator CS takes formatting to one text object; the next click willthe next level by introducing Character and Paragraph start a new text object. Or, dese-styles. Now you can apply multiple attributes to text sim- lect the current text by holdingply by applying the appropriate style. down the (Mac)/Ctrl (Win) key You can access the new Character Styles and Para- (temporarily turning your cursorgraph Styles palettes via Window > Type > Character into a selection tool) and clickingStyles, or Window > Type > Paragraph Styles. New styles outside the text block. Chapter 6 Type 185 Legacy text can either be created from scratch or based on existing Illustrators new text engine styles. To create a new style with a default name (that can makes a lot of new type features be changed later if you like), click the Create New Style possible. But it also means that button in either the Character Styles or the Paragraph text is handled very differently Styles palette. If you want to name your new style from from previous versions, so legacy the get-go, choose New Character Style from the Charac- text (text created in earlier ver- ter Styles palette menu, or New Paragraph Style from the sions of Illustrator) needs to be Paragraph Styles palette menu. Type a name for your new updated before it can be edited style in the dialog box that appears, click OK, and your in Illustrator CS. When you open a new style will appear in the Character Styles or Paragraph file containing legacy text, a dia- Styles palette. log box warns you that it contains To create a new style based on an existing one, select text that needs to be updated. the existing style in the Character Styles or Paragraph The dialog box gives you the Styles palette. Then choos ...