Special Edition Using Adobe Illustrator 10

Special Edition Using Adobe Illustrator10......Page 2
Copyright© 2002 by Que......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK?......Page 20
WHY YOU SHOULD USE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10......Page 21
WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH......Page 24
HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED......Page 25
PART I OVERVIEW OF ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10......Page 30
CHAPTER 1 WHAT’S NEW IN ILLUSTRATOR 10......Page 32
ILLUSTRATOR FOR THE WEB......Page 33
ENVELOPE DISTORT, WARPS, AND LIQUIFYING......Page 34
ILLUSTRATOR’S OTHER NEW TOOLS......Page 36
COMPOUND SHAPES......Page 38
DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN GRAPHICS......Page 39
INTEGRATION WITH THE ADOBE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS......Page 40
CHAPTER 2 THE ILLUSTRATOR INTERFACE AND SETUP......Page 42
A QUICK TOUR OF THE ILLUSTRATOR WORKPLACE......Page 43
ZOOMING......Page 46
VIEW OPTIONS......Page 47
ILLUSTRATOR TERMINOLOGY AND LABELS......Page 50
CHAPTER 3 WORKING WITH FILES IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 60
DETERMINING FILE FORMAT REQUIREMENTS......Page 61
ILLUSTRATOR’S COMMANDS TO SAVE AND EXPORT FILES......Page 63
LINKING AND EMBEDDING......Page 72
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 74
PART II BASIC CREATION IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 76
CHAPTER 4 CREATING AND EDITING PATHS......Page 78
PATHS AND VECTOR ART......Page 79
HOW ANCHOR POINTS SHAPE PATHS......Page 81
THE PEN TOOLS......Page 86
EDITING PATHS......Page 89
MORE PATH CREATION TOOLS......Page 93
ADDITIONAL PATH-RELATED TOOLS......Page 96
ILLUSTRATOR’S AUTO TRACE TOOL......Page 99
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 100
CHAPTER 5 SHAPE, DRAWING, AND GRAPH TOOLS......Page 102
ILLUSTRATOR’S OBJECT CREATION TOOLS......Page 103
THE BASIC OBJECT CREATION TOOLS......Page 104
THE COMPLEX OBJECT CREATION TOOLS......Page 111
SELECTION TOOLS AND COMMANDS......Page 116
ILLUSTRATOR’S SELECT MENU......Page 121
COMPOUND SHAPES AND THE PATHFINDER PALETTE......Page 125
GRAPHS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 129
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 135
CHAPTER 6 UTILIZING THE FOUR TYPES OF BRUSHES......Page 138
WORKING WITH BRUSHES......Page 139
CREATING AND MODIFYING BRUSHES......Page 146
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 154
CHAPTER 7 TYPE AND TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 156
THE TYPE TOOLS......Page 157
THE PALETTES......Page 165
THE TYPE MENU......Page 168
TEXT CONTAINERS, OUTLINES, AND ATTRIBUTES......Page 173
FONTS AND FONT EMBEDDING......Page 179
TYPOGRAPHIC TERMINOLOGY......Page 182
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 188
PART III MANIPULATING OBJECTS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 190
CHAPTER 8 TRANSFORMING AND DISTORTING OBJECTS......Page 192
TRANSFORMATIONS AND DISTORTIONS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 193
THE BASICS OF TRANSFORMING......Page 194
THE TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 199
ENVELOPE DISTORTIONS......Page 213
ILLUSTRATOR’S LIQUIFY TOOLS......Page 225
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 229
CHAPTER 9 WORKING WITH BLENDS......Page 230
CREATING BLENDS......Page 231
EXAMINING THE BLEND OPTIONS......Page 235
ADJUSTING BLEND PATHS......Page 245
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 248
CHAPTER 10 ILLUSTRATOR’S LAYERS, SUBLAYERS, AND GROUPS......Page 250
ILLUSTRATOR’S LAYERS......Page 251
WORKING WITH LAYERS......Page 256
TEMPLATES......Page 264
TARGETING LAYERS, GROUPS, AND OBJECTS......Page 265
RELEASE TO LAYERS......Page 268
SPECIAL UTILIZATION OF LAYERS......Page 271
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 272
CHAPTER 11 OUTPUT OPTIONS......Page 274
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PAGE AND SCREEN......Page 275
THE PDF OPTION......Page 281
OTHER OUTPUT OPTIONS......Page 284
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 289
PART IV ENHANCING ILLUSTRATOR OBJECTS......Page 292
CHAPTER 12 UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING COLOR......Page 294
THE TWO TYPES OF COLOR......Page 295
RGB VERSUS CMYK VERSUS SPOT COLORS......Page 297
THE OTHER COLOR MODES: HSB AND GRAYSCALE......Page 301
DETERMINING THE COLOR MODE......Page 303
USING THE COLOR PALETTE......Page 305
APPLYING COLOR......Page 309
USING THE SWATCHES PALETTE......Page 310
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 316
CHAPTER 13 APPLYING AND DEFINING PATTERNS......Page 318
GENERAL RULES GOVERNING PATTERNS......Page 319
FILL PATTERNS......Page 322
BRUSH PATTERNS......Page 325
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 340
CHAPTER 14 USING THE APPEARANCE AND STYLES PALETTES......Page 342
APPEARANCES AND STYLES......Page 343
THE APPEARANCE PALETTE......Page 344
THE APPEARANCE PALETTE MENU......Page 348
APPLYING APPEARANCES TO GROUPS AND LAYERS......Page 350
THE STYLES PALETTE......Page 352
STYLE LIBRARIES......Page 353
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 354
CHAPTER 15 THE GRADIENT AND GRADIENT MESH TOOLS......Page 356
WORKING WITH GRADIENTS......Page 357
GRADIENT MESHES......Page 362
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 371
PART V GETTING THE MOST OUT OF ILLUSTRATOR......Page 374
CHAPTER 16 CUSTOMIZING ILLUSTRATOR......Page 376
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS: SPEED FOR ILLUSTRATOR POWER USERS......Page 377
SETTING ILLUSTRATOR’S PREFERENCES......Page 379
CREATING ILLUSTRATOR STARTUP FILES......Page 389
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 391
CHAPTER 17 USING MASKS TO SHOW AND HIDE......Page 392
CLIPPING MASKS......Page 393
OPACITY MASKS......Page 397
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 403
PART VI BETWEEN VECTOR AND RASTER......Page 406
CHAPTER 18 RASTER IMAGES AND RASTERIZED OBJECTS......Page 408
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VECTOR AND RASTER......Page 409
RASTERIZING OBJECTS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 418
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 422
CHAPTER 19 EXPLOITING ILLUSTRATOR’S TRANSPARENCY......Page 424
WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 425
THE BLENDING MODES......Page 433
OUTPUTTING TRANSPARENCY......Page 443
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 446
CHAPTER 20 USING FILTERS AND EFFECTS......Page 448
ABOUT FILTERS AND EFFECTS......Page 449
ILLUSTRATOR’S FILTER AND EFFECT MENUS......Page 452
THE TOP OF THE MENUS......Page 453
THE MIDDLE OF THE MENUS—VECTOR......Page 454
THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU—RASTER......Page 465
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 485
PART VII ILLUSTRATOR AND THE WEB......Page 486
CHAPTER 21 DESIGNING WEB SITES AND WEB PAGES......Page 488
WEB DESIGN WITH ILLUSTRATOR......Page 489
PREPARING FOR WEB GRAPHIC CREATION......Page 494
COLOR ON THE WEB......Page 498
FILE FORMAT CONSIDERATIONS......Page 499
CASCADING STYLE SHEETS......Page 501
SYMBOLS AND SYMBOLISM FOR THE WEB......Page 504
SLICING......Page 513
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 515
CHAPTER 22 SAVING IMAGES FOR THE WEB......Page 516
CONTROL GRAPHIC IMAGES......Page 517
COLOR AND THE WEB......Page 518
FILE SIZE AND THE WEB......Page 519
IMAGE FORMATS FOR THE WEB......Page 520
PIXEL PREVIEW......Page 525
SAVE FOR WEB AND IMAGE OPTIMIZING......Page 528
THE COLOR TABLE......Page 535
THE OPTIMIZATION SETTINGS......Page 537
TYPES OF DITHERING......Page 540
OPTIMIZING SLICES......Page 544
THE SAVE OPTIMIZED AS DIALOG BOX......Page 546
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 549
CHAPTER 23 FLASH AND SVG SUPPORT......Page 552
ANIMATION ON THE WEB......Page 553
WHAT IS FLASH?......Page 556
WHAT IS SVG?......Page 557
PREPARING VECTOR-BASED ANIMATION FOR FLASH......Page 558
EXPORTING TO SWF......Page 571
CREATING SVG OUTPUT......Page 573
DYNAMIC SVG......Page 579
SAVING AS SVG......Page 581
SAVE FOR WEB WITH SWF AND SVG......Page 583
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 584
PART VIII PRE-PRESS AND FOUR-COLOR PROCESS PRINTING......Page 586
CHAPTER 24 COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND TRAPPING ISSUES......Page 588
TERMS AND CONCEPTS......Page 589
THE BASICS OF PRINTING......Page 594
COLOR ISSUES......Page 598
PREPARING ARTWORK FOR PRINT......Page 605
SERVICE BUREAUS, PRINT BROKERS, AND PRINTERS......Page 614
TRAPPING......Page 615
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 620
CHAPTER 25 LINKING AND EMBEDDING IMAGES AND FONTS......Page 622
LINKING RASTER IMAGES......Page 623
EMBEDDING RASTER AND VECTOR IMAGES......Page 631
EMBEDDING TEXT FILES AND FONTS......Page 636
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 639
PART IX ILLUSTRATOR EFFICIENCY AND INTEROPERABILITY......Page 642
CHAPTER 26 AUTOMATION THROUGH ACTIONS......Page 644
ACTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE......Page 645
RECORDING CUSTOM ACTIONS......Page 651
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 661
CHAPTER 27 DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN GRAPHICS......Page 664
DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN GRAPHICS—OVERVIEW......Page 665
TEMPLATES, VARIABLES, AND DATA SETS......Page 667
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 673
CHAPTER 28 INTEGRATING ILLUSTRATOR AND PHOTOSHOP......Page 674
ILLUSTRATOR VERSUS PHOTOSHOP......Page 675
MOVING ARTWORK FROM ILLUSTRATOR TO PHOTOSHOP......Page 679
MOVING ARTWORK FROM PHOTOSHOP TO ILLUSTRATOR......Page 687
TROUBLESHOOTING......Page 690
PART X APPENDIXES......Page 692
APPENDIX A INSTALLING ILLUSTRATOR......Page 694
ILLUSTRATOR’S EASY INSTALLATION PROCESS......Page 695
THE CUSTOM INSTALLATION PROCEDURE— BASIC FILES......Page 698
MACINTOSH CUSTOM INSTALLATION— ADDITIONAL FILES......Page 700
WINDOWS CUSTOM INSTALLATION— ADDITIONAL FILES......Page 702
WHAT CAN BE SKIPPED?......Page 703
WHAT CAN BE DELETED AFTER INSTALLATION?......Page 704
APPENDIX B ILLUSTRATOR ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCES......Page 706
BASIC TROUBLESHOOTING DIAGNOSIS AND REPAIR......Page 707
WHERE TO GO FOR HELP......Page 710
TIPS FOR SEARCHING AND ASKING......Page 713
THE ADOBE EXPERT CENTER......Page 714
APPENDIX C ILLUSTRATOR TO GO......Page 716
TAKING ILLUSTRATOR WITH YOU......Page 717
PREPARING AN IMAGE FOR THE CLIENT’S COMPUTER......Page 718
SEPARATIONS AND PROOFING......Page 719
WEB ANIMATION CHECKLIST......Page 722
INDEX......Page 724