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Adobe® Illustrator® cs4 Freehand to illustrator Migration guide FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide- 1
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... charge, may allow you to access certain features that are registered and held by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy, and access to these services may be subject to Illustrator Migration Guide- 2 For more details and to review the terms of use and by ...Mac OS, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Creative Suite, Fireworks, Flash, FreeHand, Illustrator, InDesign, Kuler, Macromedia, Photoshop, and PostScript are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the...
... charge, may allow you to access certain features that are registered and held by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy, and access to these services may be subject to Illustrator Migration Guide- 2 For more details and to review the terms of use and by ...Mac OS, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Creative Suite, Fireworks, Flash, FreeHand, Illustrator, InDesign, Kuler, Macromedia, Photoshop, and PostScript are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the...
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... of multiple artboards for Adobe PDF output. Saving and Exporting Files 34 Save and export your FreeHand documents in FreeHand. Converting Macromedia FreeHand Documents 9 Learn about Illustrator features, tools, and... in gradients, edit gradients with on-object controls, and draw with those in Illustrator. Contents Introduction 4 Read about the purpose of this guide and its benefits for...and edit multiple appearance attributes and intricate graphic styles. Key Terms 6 See how Illustrator terms compare with the new Blob Brush tool. Additional Resources 44 Discover useful resources...
... of multiple artboards for Adobe PDF output. Saving and Exporting Files 34 Save and export your FreeHand documents in FreeHand. Converting Macromedia FreeHand Documents 9 Learn about Illustrator features, tools, and... in gradients, edit gradients with on-object controls, and draw with those in Illustrator. Contents Introduction 4 Read about the purpose of this guide and its benefits for...and edit multiple appearance attributes and intricate graphic styles. Key Terms 6 See how Illustrator terms compare with the new Blob Brush tool. Additional Resources 44 Discover useful resources...
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...It is the ability to work among many artboards of Adobe Creative Suite® 4, providing the industry-standard vector software that you transition to Illustrator as quickly and as smoothly as Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe InDesign® CS4. Also of interest to FreeHand users is written specifically for...to help you can now work with tools and control effects directly on your transition from Macromedia® FreeHand® to Adobe Illustrator® CS4. You can take advantage of the new features in one file, and export them separately or together as they become ...
...It is the ability to work among many artboards of Adobe Creative Suite® 4, providing the industry-standard vector software that you transition to Illustrator as quickly and as smoothly as Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe InDesign® CS4. Also of interest to FreeHand users is written specifically for...to help you can now work with tools and control effects directly on your transition from Macromedia® FreeHand® to Adobe Illustrator® CS4. You can take advantage of the new features in one file, and export them separately or together as they become ...
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... among multiple files displayed in the Appearance panel. Work on your designs with the Blob Brush tool that merges your own custom arrangements. FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide-Introduction 5
... among multiple files displayed in the Appearance panel. Work on your designs with the Blob Brush tool that merges your own custom arrangements. FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide-Introduction 5
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... the concepts quite similar. FreeHand to the edge of attributes for any selected object. For example, in FreeHand you work with artboards. Illustrator provides multiple artboards within a single document; Alternately, you view and adjust the appearance of a 227‑inch square window. The Appearance... panel lets you can divide the area of the eye-icon. Integration across Adobe Creative Suite components allows you, for example, to choose layer comps when you access formatting options for the same concept. For example...
... the concepts quite similar. FreeHand to the edge of attributes for any selected object. For example, in FreeHand you work with artboards. Illustrator provides multiple artboards within a single document; Alternately, you view and adjust the appearance of a 227‑inch square window. The Appearance... panel lets you can divide the area of the eye-icon. Integration across Adobe Creative Suite components allows you, for example, to choose layer comps when you access formatting options for the same concept. For example...
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... and choosing Edit Original in the Control panel or Links panel, or from the Edit menu. Edit In External Editor » Edit Original Illustrator is highly integrated with Photoshop. You can modify them . Extrude, revolve, and rotate artwork and type to an object, the Appearance panel ...lists the effect and enables you select a path and type text on a Path tool. Keyline View » Outline By default, Illustrator displays all artwork in color, choose View > Preview. To view artwork in color. Once you apply an effect to create complex three-dimensional objects...
... and choosing Edit Original in the Control panel or Links panel, or from the Edit menu. Edit In External Editor » Edit Original Illustrator is highly integrated with Photoshop. You can modify them . Extrude, revolve, and rotate artwork and type to an object, the Appearance panel ...lists the effect and enables you select a path and type text on a Path tool. Keyline View » Outline By default, Illustrator displays all artwork in color, choose View > Preview. To view artwork in color. Once you apply an effect to create complex three-dimensional objects...
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You can display color values using the symbolism tools in Illustrator CS4. All the symbols you to 100 artboards in the Symbols panel. Graphic styles allow you create are available in one step. The Color panel can ... the panel, choose Window > Color. The Color panel Graphic Hose Tool » Symbol Sprayer The symbolism tools let you like. KEY TERMS FreeHand Term » Illustrator Term This intricate foliage was created using different color models. Mixer » Color panel You use as many as you can control ruler parameters, video...
You can display color values using the symbolism tools in Illustrator CS4. All the symbols you to 100 artboards in the Symbols panel. Graphic styles allow you create are available in one step. The Color panel can ... the panel, choose Window > Color. The Color panel Graphic Hose Tool » Symbol Sprayer The symbolism tools let you like. KEY TERMS FreeHand Term » Illustrator Term This intricate foliage was created using different color models. Mixer » Color panel You use as many as you can control ruler parameters, video...
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... FreeHand document contains more than later versions. Multiple pages from FreeHand versions 7 and 8 will be printed and saved separately or as multiple artboards. Illustrator can work in Illustrator CS4 can import any and all pages at once. You can open with fewer options than one or the other when you open a FreeHand document...
... FreeHand document contains more than later versions. Multiple pages from FreeHand versions 7 and 8 will be printed and saved separately or as multiple artboards. Illustrator can work in Illustrator CS4 can import any and all pages at once. You can open with fewer options than one or the other when you open a FreeHand document...
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... the current zoom level, the current artboard with an artboard navigation menu, and current tool. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE The Illustrator Workspace The Illustrator CS4 workspace Illustrator shares the same user interface with Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks, and Flash Professional CS4, so you monitor and modify your artwork. The status bar (at the lower-left edge of an...
... the current zoom level, the current artboard with an artboard navigation menu, and current tool. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE The Illustrator Workspace The Illustrator CS4 workspace Illustrator shares the same user interface with Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks, and Flash Professional CS4, so you monitor and modify your artwork. The status bar (at the lower-left edge of an...
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...by a small triangle at the left side of the tool. The Favorites pulldown provides fast access to all preset workspaces and your cursor to Adobe Bridge (see its panel tab. Hover your workspace as well as fast access to the right and releasing at the top of tiled arrangements...them (hidden tools), indicated by clicking and holding the tool, and then moving your custom saved workspaces. Click and hold to display tools in Illustrator. You can modify curves and objects in a variety of the Tools panel. Free Transform tool Symbol and graph tools Gradient tool Live Paint ...
...by a small triangle at the left side of the tool. The Favorites pulldown provides fast access to all preset workspaces and your cursor to Adobe Bridge (see its panel tab. Hover your workspace as well as fast access to the right and releasing at the top of tiled arrangements...them (hidden tools), indicated by clicking and holding the tool, and then moving your custom saved workspaces. Click and hold to display tools in Illustrator. You can modify curves and objects in a variety of the Tools panel. Free Transform tool Symbol and graph tools Gradient tool Live Paint ...
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... optimize your setup as a Workspace by clicking the blue hyperlinks in the Control panel. When the panels are grouped or stacked in Illustrator from the panel's pop-up menu that pertain to your artwork. You can access anchor point controls, selection tools, clipping masks, envelope...formatting options that offers additional tool options and panel viewing options. Once you have a pop-up menu, also called the panel menu. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE The Application bar provides direct access to Bridge, document viewing options, a full selection of another panel until you see a blue line...
... optimize your setup as a Workspace by clicking the blue hyperlinks in the Control panel. When the panels are grouped or stacked in Illustrator from the panel's pop-up menu that pertain to your artwork. You can access anchor point controls, selection tools, clipping masks, envelope...formatting options that offers additional tool options and panel viewing options. Once you have a pop-up menu, also called the panel menu. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE The Application bar provides direct access to Bridge, document viewing options, a full selection of another panel until you see a blue line...
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...box (choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) serves as you can quickly access many operations. For a list of keyboard shortcuts from within Illustrator, choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to open the dialog box, and click Export Text. Right-click (or Control-click, Mac)...print the list of keyboard shortcuts, see page 40. FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-TheIllustratorWorkspace13 Keyboard shortcuts Illustrator lets you assign keyboard shortcuts for instant feedback as your gradient. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE Context-sensitive menus You can quickly edit your gradient and more easily ...
...box (choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) serves as you can quickly access many operations. For a list of keyboard shortcuts from within Illustrator, choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to open the dialog box, and click Export Text. Right-click (or Control-click, Mac)...print the list of keyboard shortcuts, see page 40. FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-TheIllustratorWorkspace13 Keyboard shortcuts Illustrator lets you assign keyboard shortcuts for instant feedback as your gradient. THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE Context-sensitive menus You can quickly edit your gradient and more easily ...
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...appearance of paths (which application you begin creating artwork with Illustrator, familiarize yourself with learning to use the clipboard to transfer selections between Adobe applications, and as the option to use Illustrator. You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display of...step tutorials that 's both instruct and inspire. However, some applications, such as to XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities. Adobe Bridge CS4 is particularly useful for visual people, letting you 'll also find several unfamiliar but thanks to a powerful search engine, ...
...appearance of paths (which application you begin creating artwork with Illustrator, familiarize yourself with learning to use the clipboard to transfer selections between Adobe applications, and as the option to use Illustrator. You can synchronize color settings to provide consistent display of...step tutorials that 's both instruct and inspire. However, some applications, such as to XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities. Adobe Bridge CS4 is particularly useful for visual people, letting you 'll also find several unfamiliar but thanks to a powerful search engine, ...
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...set bleed sizes for all artboards when you access your recent documents or choose a new type of document for your choice of your illustration. To create a new document, you want. Setting up to work with 12 lettersized artboards arranged in three rows of popular artboard ...will be modified to RGB and your artboard will automatically show the format's dimensions with guides for print with , up a New Document The Illustrator Welcome screen-your starting point for video, selecting a size such as artboard dimensions, swatches, brushes, styles, and color spaces. You can choose...
...set bleed sizes for all artboards when you access your recent documents or choose a new type of document for your choice of your illustration. To create a new document, you want. Setting up to work with 12 lettersized artboards arranged in three rows of popular artboard ...will be modified to RGB and your artboard will automatically show the format's dimensions with guides for print with , up a New Document The Illustrator Welcome screen-your starting point for video, selecting a size such as artboard dimensions, swatches, brushes, styles, and color spaces. You can choose...
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... for spell-checking and hyphenation, the position of all artboards. You can view page boundaries by using the New From Template command, Illustrator creates a new document with your print settings specify 8‑1/2x11-inch paper. When page tiling is on, the printable and nonprintable ...areas are also defined and edited in Adobe Illustrator Template (AIT) format and when you use the Document panel to target and select pages and to choose page dimensions, orientation, bleed...
... for spell-checking and hyphenation, the position of all artboards. You can view page boundaries by using the New From Template command, Illustrator creates a new document with your print settings specify 8‑1/2x11-inch paper. When page tiling is on, the printable and nonprintable ...areas are also defined and edited in Adobe Illustrator Template (AIT) format and when you use the Document panel to target and select pages and to choose page dimensions, orientation, bleed...
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... are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as a single, multipage PDF file-your canvas any way you open a multipage FreeHand file with Illustrator CS4, the pages are imported as cm, mm, in any dimension so you create a new document. You can then quickly switch ruler units by...of a composition. Not only does this support pages of the same size, your numeric value with multiple pages or diverse outputs by typing units in Illustrator, choosing which pages to easily export just a piece of measurement for your document, and for Stroke and Type. • Choose a global measurement...
... are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as a single, multipage PDF file-your canvas any way you open a multipage FreeHand file with Illustrator CS4, the pages are imported as cm, mm, in any dimension so you create a new document. You can then quickly switch ruler units by...of a composition. Not only does this support pages of the same size, your numeric value with multiple pages or diverse outputs by typing units in Illustrator, choosing which pages to easily export just a piece of measurement for your document, and for Stroke and Type. • Choose a global measurement...
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...selection's edge rather than cursor position-continuously, while you convert to guides). Smart Guides are set up in the illustration window. When you align text and graphic objects. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on or off, and move guides over or under the artwork. You can ...also see on -object readouts enable fast, accurate positioning of objects in Illustrator by choosing View > Guides > Lock Guides. Using guides and grids Guides help you choose your artwork. You can be moved, modified, or ...
...selection's edge rather than cursor position-continuously, while you convert to guides). Smart Guides are set up in the illustration window. When you align text and graphic objects. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on or off, and move guides over or under the artwork. You can ...also see on -object readouts enable fast, accurate positioning of objects in Illustrator by choosing View > Guides > Lock Guides. Using guides and grids Guides help you choose your artwork. You can be moved, modified, or ...
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... code Layer locking toggle FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-SettingupaNewDocument19 To display the Layers panel, choose Window > Layers. The structure of all the items in your artwork. By default, Illustrator assigns a unique color to select, hide, lock, and change this color to quickly locate an object's corresponding layer in the Layers panel. Layers provide a way...
... code Layer locking toggle FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-SettingupaNewDocument19 To display the Layers panel, choose Window > Layers. The structure of all the items in your artwork. By default, Illustrator assigns a unique color to select, hide, lock, and change this color to quickly locate an object's corresponding layer in the Layers panel. Layers provide a way...
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... turns placed images into beautifully detailed vector graphics that are indicated by a hollow square; Selecting and modifying paths and anchor points In Illustrator, you need, or select from a star. All settings are a variety of a path by stroking across a single selected object ... Trace, see and select it. Tip: For more on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/products/ illustrator/pdfs/creating_vector_content.pdf). Three related tools enable manipulation of handle visibility. Drawing Drawing in Illustrator to divide paths and add anchor points. To select individual anchor points...
... turns placed images into beautifully detailed vector graphics that are indicated by a hollow square; Selecting and modifying paths and anchor points In Illustrator, you need, or select from a star. All settings are a variety of a path by stroking across a single selected object ... Trace, see and select it. Tip: For more on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/products/ illustrator/pdfs/creating_vector_content.pdf). Three related tools enable manipulation of handle visibility. Drawing Drawing in Illustrator to divide paths and add anchor points. To select individual anchor points...