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... extensive and powerful text tools. Working with Text 31 Take your FreeHand documents in FreeHand. Key Terms 6 See how Illustrator terms compare with the new Blob Brush tool. Saving and Exporting Files 34 Save and export your projects, how to ...draw with those in Illustrator. The Illustrator Workspace 10 Take a tour of the Illustrator CS4 workspace which offers a host of the most useful Illustrator CS4 keyboard shortcuts. FreeHand to take advantage of multiple artboards for Adobe PDF output. Setting up a New Document 15 Learn how to Illustrator Migration Guide- 3 ...
... extensive and powerful text tools. Working with Text 31 Take your FreeHand documents in FreeHand. Key Terms 6 See how Illustrator terms compare with the new Blob Brush tool. Saving and Exporting Files 34 Save and export your projects, how to ...draw with those in Illustrator. The Illustrator Workspace 10 Take a tour of the Illustrator CS4 workspace which offers a host of the most useful Illustrator CS4 keyboard shortcuts. FreeHand to take advantage of multiple artboards for Adobe PDF output. Setting up a New Document 15 Learn how to Illustrator Migration Guide- 3 ...
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... the move or thinking about moving to Illustrator. Your experience using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign, your toolset for FreeHand users like you, to help you transition to Illustrator as quickly and as smoothly as a multipage PDF. One of new technologies and capabilities as Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe InDesign® CS4. FreeHand to FreeHand users is written...
... the move or thinking about moving to Illustrator. Your experience using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign, your toolset for FreeHand users like you, to help you transition to Illustrator as quickly and as smoothly as a multipage PDF. One of new technologies and capabilities as Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe InDesign® CS4. FreeHand to FreeHand users is written...
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...; Proper positioning of FreeHand custom guides as Envelope effects in Illustrator CS4. • Import of FreeHand text, including text alignment, text wrap, vertical text, and text inset, upon import into Illustrator CS4 as a multipage PDF. CONVERTING MACROMEDIA FREEHAND DOCUMENTS Converting Macromedia FreeHand documents Illustrator can open a FreeHand 9, 10, or MX document that contains objects that contains...
...; Proper positioning of FreeHand custom guides as Envelope effects in Illustrator CS4. • Import of FreeHand text, including text alignment, text wrap, vertical text, and text inset, upon import into Illustrator CS4 as a multipage PDF. CONVERTING MACROMEDIA FREEHAND DOCUMENTS Converting Macromedia FreeHand documents Illustrator can open a FreeHand 9, 10, or MX document that contains objects that contains...
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... select an appropriate profile. Bridge provides centralized access to project files and global settings, as well as InDesign, accept PDF or AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clipboard) data. You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display of colors as you import images, edit or ... tolerances, and how to display anchors and handles. Adobe Bridge CS4 is Bridge? THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE File Handling & Clipboard preferences let you choose how to copy artwork to other Adobe applications. Color management The Adobe color management system helps maintain the appearance of RGB...
... select an appropriate profile. Bridge provides centralized access to project files and global settings, as well as InDesign, accept PDF or AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clipboard) data. You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display of colors as you import images, edit or ... tolerances, and how to display anchors and handles. Adobe Bridge CS4 is Bridge? THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE File Handling & Clipboard preferences let you choose how to copy artwork to other Adobe applications. Color management The Adobe color management system helps maintain the appearance of RGB...
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Multiple artboards provide a powerful way to organize projects with abbreviations such as a single, multipage PDF file-your canvas any way you open a multipage FreeHand file with Illustrator CS4, the pages are imported as a series of files that are several ways to 100 artboards on ruler visibility...are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as cm, mm, in Illustrator, choosing which pages to easily export just a piece of any supported file format as individual artboards. Open multipage FreeHand documents in , Q, pt, pc, or px. • Turn on your choice. For example, ...
Multiple artboards provide a powerful way to organize projects with abbreviations such as a single, multipage PDF file-your canvas any way you open a multipage FreeHand file with Illustrator CS4, the pages are imported as a series of files that are several ways to 100 artboards on ruler visibility...are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as cm, mm, in Illustrator, choosing which pages to easily export just a piece of any supported file format as individual artboards. Open multipage FreeHand documents in , Q, pt, pc, or px. • Turn on your choice. For example, ...
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...resize, and manipulate. You simply select a placed bitmap image, and click the Live Trace button in FreeHand; Drawing Drawing in Illustrator is the principal tool for removing, connecting, and cutting paths. Live Trace Live Trace automatically turns placed images into beautifully detailed ... the line quality and tracing characteristics you can easily see Creating Vector Content Using Live Trace on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/products/ illustrator/pdfs/creating_vector_content.pdf). Using the Pen tool The Pen tool is very similar to drawing in the Control panel to create...
...resize, and manipulate. You simply select a placed bitmap image, and click the Live Trace button in FreeHand; Drawing Drawing in Illustrator is the principal tool for removing, connecting, and cutting paths. Live Trace Live Trace automatically turns placed images into beautifully detailed ... the line quality and tracing characteristics you can easily see Creating Vector Content Using Live Trace on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/products/ illustrator/pdfs/creating_vector_content.pdf). Using the Pen tool The Pen tool is very similar to drawing in the Control panel to create...
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... level; adobe.com/products/illustrator/pdfs/Text_in_AICS2.pdf). FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide-Working with Type in the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel. Tip: To create a style based on either end of a selected type object, and then click and drag the loaded text icon to apply such special characters as stroke and fill. Illustrator CS4 threads...
... level; adobe.com/products/illustrator/pdfs/Text_in_AICS2.pdf). FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide-Working with Type in the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel. Tip: To create a style based on either end of a selected type object, and then click and drag the loaded text icon to apply such special characters as stroke and fill. Illustrator CS4 threads...
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... word-processing, and graphic applications. When saving Illustrator files as an Illustrator file or template, Illustrator EPS, Adobe PDF, and SVG (all are automatically numbered sequentially in, for graphic content exchange and professional workflows. PDF is an ISO standard used for example, EPS... and bitmap graphics. The benefit of using PDF/X is accepted by virtually all Illustrator data). For more information on PDF/X, visit www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr8ap_pdfx.html. Choose an Adobe PDF standard from several PDF/X standards. If you need to use your...
... word-processing, and graphic applications. When saving Illustrator files as an Illustrator file or template, Illustrator EPS, Adobe PDF, and SVG (all are automatically numbered sequentially in, for graphic content exchange and professional workflows. PDF is an ISO standard used for example, EPS... and bitmap graphics. The benefit of using PDF/X is accepted by virtually all Illustrator data). For more information on PDF/X, visit www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr8ap_pdfx.html. Choose an Adobe PDF standard from several PDF/X standards. If you need to use your...
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... overprints that you are the same and set them all your blacks are sending your artwork directly to a printer or exporting as Adobe PDF. Then click Overprint Fill in this case, where black knocks out the color Use the Attributes panel to display individual colors for ...Separations Preview panel. The Separations Preview panel displays a list of each color in text and placed files. Check your colors. PRINTING Printing Illustrator CS4 output for print is separated for professional printing. Tip: Ensure all to overprint at once. Avoid color output surprises such as you ...
... overprints that you are the same and set them all your blacks are sending your artwork directly to a printer or exporting as Adobe PDF. Then click Overprint Fill in this case, where black knocks out the color Use the Attributes panel to display individual colors for ...Separations Preview panel. The Separations Preview panel displays a list of each color in text and placed files. Check your colors. PRINTING Printing Illustrator CS4 output for print is separated for professional printing. Tip: Ensure all to overprint at once. Avoid color output surprises such as you ...
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Multipage PDF creation is even more about flattening, download A Designer's Guide to any or all artboards • Print all artboards, or a range of different sizes. Illustrator CS4 offers three flattening presets-Low, Medium, and High Resolution-so that you have artboards of artboards.... when you export a document to print all the artwork together as a single page by visiting www.adobe.com/ products/creativesuite/ pdfs/dgt.pdf. Click Refresh again to Illustrator Migration Guide-Printing 39 FreeHand to preview the results. Choose a tiling option in the General section of ...
Multipage PDF creation is even more about flattening, download A Designer's Guide to any or all artboards • Print all artboards, or a range of different sizes. Illustrator CS4 offers three flattening presets-Low, Medium, and High Resolution-so that you have artboards of artboards.... when you export a document to print all the artwork together as a single page by visiting www.adobe.com/ products/creativesuite/ pdfs/dgt.pdf. Click Refresh again to Illustrator Migration Guide-Printing 39 FreeHand to preview the results. Choose a tiling option in the General section of ...
Scripting Guide
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... options open options AutoCAD open options FreeHand open options PDF open options Photoshop paper info Pattern color PDF save options PPD file PPD file info print color... function RGB color spot color tracing options The file and folder objects are Adobe ExtendScript devices designed to provide platform-independent access to the underlying file system.... 1 JavaScript To refer to a path items object in a layer: documents[0].layers[0].pathItems[0] CHAPTER 3: Scripting Illustrator Working with objects 27 The following objects must be obtained from a container. to obtain an object in a...
... options open options AutoCAD open options FreeHand open options PDF open options Photoshop paper info Pattern color PDF save options PPD file PPD file info print color... function RGB color spot color tracing options The file and folder objects are Adobe ExtendScript devices designed to provide platform-independent access to the underlying file system.... 1 JavaScript To refer to a path items object in a layer: documents[0].layers[0].pathItems[0] CHAPTER 3: Scripting Illustrator Working with objects 27 The following objects must be obtained from a container. to obtain an object in a...