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What’s new
Superior design features
Better integration
Enhanced workplace efficiency
Advanced drawing tools and controls
Work area
Work area basics
Workspace overview
About screen modes
Using the status bar
Enter values in panels and dialog boxes
Control panel overview
Customizing the workspace
Customize the workspace
Rename or duplicate a workspace
Save, delete, and switch between workspaces
Tools
Tools panel overview
Select a tool
Change tool pointers
Selection tool gallery
Drawing tool gallery
Type tool gallery
Painting tool gallery
Reshaping tool gallery
Symbolism tool gallery
Graph tool gallery
Slicing and cutting tool gallery
Moving and zooming tool gallery
Files and templates
About new document profiles
Create new documents
About templates
Create a new template
Open a file
Browse for files using Adobe Bridge
Adobe Version Cue
Cropping artwork
Create, edit, and delete crop areas
Use crop area rulers
Crop area options
Specify how to crop artwork for printing
Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning
Viewing artwork
Artboard overview
Change the size and color of the artboard
About page tiling
Zoom in or out
Move the view area
Navigator panel overview
View artwork as outlines
Use multiple windows and views
Previewing artwork in its final output medium
Rulers, grids, and guides
Use rulers
Change the unit of measurement
Use the grid
Use guides
About Smart Guides
Measure the distance between objects
Info panel overview
Setting preferences
About preferences
About plug-in modules
Recovery, undo, and automation
Undo and redo changes
Revert to the last saved version
Automating tasks
Drawing
Drawing basics
About vector graphics
About paths
About direction lines and direction points
Specify direction line and direction point appearance
Specify anchor point size preferences
Drawing simple lines and shapes
Draw straight lines with the Line Segment tool
Draw rectangles and squares
Change the corner radius of a rounded rectangle
Draw ellipses
Draw polygons
Draw stars
Draw arcs
Draw spirals
Draw grids
Drawing flares
Create a flare
Edit a flare
Drawing with the Pencil tool
Draw with the Pencil tool
Edit paths with the Pencil tool
Pencil tool options
Drawing with the Pen tool
Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
Draw curves with the Pen tool
Draw straight lines followed by curves
Draw curves followed by straight lines
Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
Reposition anchor points as you draw
Finish drawing a path
Editing paths
Select paths, segments, and anchor points
Adjust path segments
Adding and deleting anchor points
Smooth and simplify paths
Convert between smooth points and corner points
Erase artwork
Split a path
Tracing artwork
Trace artwork
Tracing options
Change the display of a tracing object
Adjust the results of a tracing
Specify the colors used for tracing
Use a tracing preset
Convert a tracing object to a Live Paint object
Release a tracing object
Symbols
About symbols
Symbols panel overview
Place a symbol
Create a symbol
Use 9-slice scaling
Work with symbol instances
Edit or redefine a symbol
Symbol libraries
Symbolism tools and symbol sets
About symbol sets
Create symbol sets
Modify symbol instances in a symbol set
Symbolism tool options
Color
About color
About colors in digital graphics
RGB
CMYK
Change the color mode of a document
HSB
Lab
Grayscale
Color spaces and gamuts
About spot and process colors
About spot colors
About process colors
Using spot and process colors together
Comparing colors in InDesign and Illustrator
Selecting colors
About selecting colors
Color Picker overview
Select colors using the Color Picker
Color panel overview
Select colors using the Color panel
Using and creating swatches
About swatches
About swatch libraries
Swatches panel overview
Add colors from artwork to Swatches panel
Share swatches between applications
Create a process-color swatch
Create spot-color swatches
Display and output spot colors using Lab values
Swatch options
Change the tint of a color
Create gradient swatches
Managing swatches
Duplicate swatches
Group swatches
Replace, merge, or delete swatches
Move swatches from a swatch library to the Swatches panel
Import swatches from another document
Create swatch libraries
Working with color groups
About color groups
Color Guide overview
Create a color harmony using the Color Guide
Color artwork with colors from the Color Guide
Save Color Guide colors to the Swatches panel
Live Color overview
Create a color group in Live Color
Edit colors in the Live Color dialog box
Assign colors to your artwork
Reduce colors in your artwork
Adjusting colors
Shift an out-of-gamut color to a printable color
Shift a color to a web-safe color
Blend colors
Change a color to its inverse or complement
Invert multiple colors
Adjust color balance of one or more colors
Convert colors to grayscale
Convert grayscale images to RGB or CMYK
Colorize grayscale or 1-bit images
Adjust the saturation of multiple colors
Mix overlapping colors
Color management
Understanding color management
Why colors sometimes don’t match
What is a color management system?
Do you need color management?
Creating a viewing environment for color management
Keeping colors consistent
About color management in Adobe applications
Basic steps for producing consistent color
Synchronize color settings across Adobe applications
Set up color management
Change the appearance of CMYK black (Illustrator, InDesign)
Managing process and spot colors
Color-managing imported images
Color-managing imported images (Illustrator, InDesign)
Using a safe CMYK workflow
Preparing imported graphics for color management
View or change profiles for imported bitmap images (InDesign)
Color-managing documents for online viewing
Color-managing documents for online viewing
Color-managing PDFs for online viewing
Color-managing HTML documents for online viewing
Proofing colors
Soft-proofing colors
Soft-proof colors
Save or load a custom proof setup
Soft-proof colors (Acrobat)
Color-managing documents when printing
Printing with color management
Letting the printer determine colors when printing
Letting the application determine colors when printing
Obtaining custom profiles for desktop printers
Color-managing PDFs for printing
Working with color profiles
About color profiles
About monitor calibration and characterization
Calibrate and profile your monitor
Install a color profile
Embed a color profile
Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
Changing the color profile for a document
Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
Convert document colors to another profile
Color settings
Customize color settings
About color working spaces
Working Space options
About missing and mismatched color profiles
Color management policy options
Color conversion options
About rendering intents
Advanced controls in Photoshop
Painting
Painting with fills and strokes
Painting methods
About fills and strokes
Fill and Stroke controls
Apply a fill color to an object
Stroke an object
Convert strokes to compound paths
Add arrowheads to lines
Remove the fill or stroke from an object
Select objects with the same fill and stroke
Create multiple fills and strokes
Live Paint groups
About Live Paint
Live Paint limitations
Create Live Paint groups
Expand or release a Live Paint group
Select items in Live Paint groups
Modify Live Paint groups
Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool
Close gaps in Live Paint groups
Brushes
About brushes
Brushes panel overview
Work with brush libraries
Apply brush strokes
Draw lines and apply brush strokes simultaneously
Paintbrush tool options
Remove brush strokes
Convert brush strokes to outlines
Create or modify brushes
Brush options
Transparency and blending modes
About transparency
Transparency panel overview
View transparency in artwork
Change the opacity of artwork
Create a transparency knockout group
Use opacity masks to create transparency
Use transparency to shape a knockout
About blending modes
Change the blending mode of artwork
Gradients, meshes, and color blends
About gradients and meshes
Gradient panel overview
Create or modify gradients
Apply an existing gradient to an object
Change gradient direction or apply across multiple objects
About mesh objects
Create mesh objects
Edit mesh objects
Patterns
About patterns
Guidelines for constructing pattern tiles
Create pattern swatches
Create seamless geometric patterns
Construct irregularly textured patterns
Create corner tiles for brush patterns
Modify patterns
Selecting and arranging objects
Selecting objects
Options for selecting objects
Specify selection preferences
Isolate groups and sublayers
Select objects using the Layers panel
Select objects with the Selection tool
Select objects with the Lasso tool
Select objects with the Magic Wand tool
Select filled objects
Select groups and objects in a group
Select faces and edges in a Live Paint group
Live Paint Selection tool options
Select the next object in the stacking order
Select objects by characteristic
Repeat or invert a selection
Save a selection
Grouping and expanding objects
Group or ungroup objects
Expand objects
Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
Move objects
Paste an object relative to other objects
Pasting objects between layers
Align and distribute objects
Rotating and reflecting objects
Rotate objects
Rotate the x and y axes of a document
Reflect objects
Using layers
About layers
Layers panel overview
Create a new layer
Move an object to a different layer
Release items to separate layers
Consolidate layers and groups
Locate an item in the Layers panel
Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
Lock or unlock objects or layers
Hide or show objects or layers
Delete objects
Stacking objects
Specify where to add new objects in the stacking order
Change the stacking order using the Layers panel
Change the stacking order using commands
Duplicating objects
Duplicate objects by dragging
Duplicate objects by using the Layers panel
Duplicate selections using drag and drop
Offset duplicate objects
Reshaping objects
Transforming objects
Transforming
Transform panel overview
Transform an object’s patterns
Transform using the bounding box
Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
Scale objects
Shear objects
Distort objects
Reshape using envelopes
About envelopes
Distort objects using an envelope
Edit the contents of an envelope
Reset an envelope
Remove an envelope
Envelope options
Combining objects
Methods of combining objects
Pathfinder panel overview
Pathfinder options
Apply Pathfinder effects
About compound shapes
Work with compound shapes
About compound paths
Cut a hole in an object using a compound path
Apply fill rules to compound paths
Return a compound path to its original components
Cutting and dividing objects
Methods for cutting, dividing, and trimming objects
Cut objects with the Divide Objects Below command
Cut objects with the Knife tool
Divide an object into a grid
Clipping masks
About clipping masks
Hide parts of objects with a clipping mask
Create a clipping mask for a group or layer
Edit a clipping mask
Add or remove an object from masked artwork
Release objects from a clipping mask
Blending objects
About blended objects
Create blends
Blend options
Change the spine of a blended object
Reverse the stacking order in a blended object
Release or expand a blended object
Reshaping objects with effects
Reshaping objects with effects
Round the corners of objects
Creating 3D objects
Create 3D objects
Set 3D rotation position options
Extrude & Bevel options
Revolve options
Surface shading options
Lighting options
Add a custom bevel path
Rotate an object in three dimensions
Map artwork to a 3D object
Importing, exporting, and saving
Importing files
About linked and embedded artwork
Place (import) files
Links panel overview
View and save metadata via the Links panel
View file information about linked or embedded artwork
Update modified links
Restore a single missing link or replace link with a different source file
Set placement options for linked artwork
Embed a linked file
Unembed a linked file
Relink an embedded file
Edit original artwork
Importing bitmap images
About bitmap images
Image resolution guidelines for final output
Importing Adobe PDF files
Importing Adobe PDF files
Adobe PDF placement options
Importing monotone, duotone, and tritone images from Adobe PDF files
Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files
Importing EPS files
Importing DCS files
Importing AutoCAD files
Importing artwork from Photoshop
Importing artwork from Photoshop
Photoshop import options
Move part of an image from Photoshop to Illustrator
Move paths from Photoshop to Illustrator
Saving artwork
About saving and exporting artwork
Save in Illustrator format
Save in EPS format
Save in SVG format
Save artwork for Microsoft Office
Exporting artwork
Export artwork
File formats for exporting artwork
AutoCAD export options
Flash export options
JPEG export options
Photoshop export options
PNG export options
TIFF export options
Creating Adobe PDF files
About Adobe PDF
Create Adobe PDF files
Adobe PDF presets
Customize PDF presets
Load PDF presets
Adobe PDF options
Setting Adobe PDF options
About PDF/X standards
PDF compatibility levels
General options for PDF
Compression and downsampling options for PDF
Mark and bleed options for PDF
Color management and PDF/X options for PDF
Font and flattening options for PDF
Adding security to PDF files
Security options
File information and metadata
About metadata
Document Info panel overview
Type
Creating and importing type
Entering text
Import text files into artwork
Delete empty type objects from your artwork
Working with area type
Resize a text area
Change the margin around a text area
Raise or lower the first baseline in a text area
Create rows and columns of text
Fit a headline across the full width of a type area
Threading text between objects
Wrap text around an object
Working with type on a path
Move or flip text along a path
Apply path type effects
Adjust the vertical alignment of type on a path
Adjust character spacing around sharp turns
Scaling and rotating type
Selecting type for transformations
Adjust the scale of type
Rotate type
Spelling and language dictionaries
Check spelling
Edit the spelling dictionary
Assign languages to text
About Unicode
Fonts
About fonts
OpenType fonts
Previewing fonts
Select a font family and style
Specify a typeface size
Find and replace fonts
Work with missing fonts
Formatting type
Selecting type
Find and replace text
Change the color and appearance of characters
Character panel overview
Underline or strike through text
Apply all caps and small caps
Change capitalization styles
Specify curly or straight quotes
Set anti-aliasing options for type
Creating superscripts or subscripts
Convert type to outlines
Choose a number style in OpenType fonts
Format fractions and ordinals in OpenType fonts
Use smart punctuation
Line and character spacing
Set the leading
Shift the baseline
Kern and track
Turn fractional character widths off or on
Special characters
About character sets and alternate glyphs
Glyphs panel overview
OpenType panel overview
Insert or replace a character using the Glyphs panel
Highlight alternate glyphs in the text
Ligatures and contextual alternates
Use ligatures and contextual alternates
Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates
Show or hide nonprinting characters
Formatting paragraphs
Paragraph panel overview
Align text
Justify text
Adjust word and letterspacing in justified text
Indent text
Adjust paragraph spacing
Hanging punctuation
Hyphenation and line breaks
Adjust hyphenation automatically
Use the hyphenation dictionary
Prevent words from breaking
Composition methods
Tabs
Tabs panel overview
Set tabs
Repeat tabs
Move tabs
Remove tabs
Specify characters for decimal tabs
Add tab leaders
Character and paragraph styles
About character and paragraph styles
Create character or paragraph styles
Edit character or paragraph styles
Remove style overrides
Delete character or paragraph styles
Load character and paragraph styles from another Illustrator document
Exporting text
Export text to a text file
Tag text for export to Flash
Formatting Asian characters
Display Asian type options
Set Asian OpenType font attributes
Replace Asian characters with a different glyph form
Specify how leading is measured in Asian type
Rotate half-width characters in vertical text
Use tate-chu-yoko
Use aki
Use warichu
Use mojisoroe to align Asian characters
Use mojikumi
Use kinsoku
Specify a burasagari option
Use kurikaeshi moji shori
Creating composite fonts
Create a composite font
Customize characters in a composite font
Delete a composite font
Export a composite font
Updating text from Illustrator 10
Updating type created in Illustrator 10
Update all legacy text in a document
Update selected legacy text
Creating special effects
Appearance attributes
About appearance attributes
Appearance panel overview
Specify how appearance attributes are applied to new objects
Targeting items for appearance attributes
Duplicate an appearance attribute
Change the stacking order of appearance attributes
Remove appearance attributes
Copy appearance attributes between objects
Working with effects and filters
About effects and filters
Apply an effect or filter
Unavailable effect and filter commands
About raster effects
Rasterization options
Applying filters and effects to bitmap images
Improving performance for filters and effects
Modify or delete an effect
Summary of effects and filters
Effects and filters quick reference
Artistic filters and effects
Blur filters and effects
Brush Strokes filters and effects
Distort filters and effects (bottom of menu)
Pixelate filters and effects
Sharpen filter and effect
Sketch filters and effects
Stylize filter and effect (bottom of menu)
Texture filters and effects
Video filters and effects
Use texture and glass surface controls
Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
Create a drop shadow
Apply an inner or outer glow
Feather the edges of an object
Creating sketches and mosaics
Create a sketch using the Scribble effect
Create a mosaic
Changing vector graphics to bitmap images
About rasterization
Rasterize a vector object
Graphic styles
About graphic styles
Graphic Styles panel overview
Create graphic styles
Apply a graphic style
Work with graphic styles
Use graphic style libraries
Import all graphic styles from another document
Web graphics
Best practices for creating web graphics
About web graphics
About pixel preview mode
Slices and image maps
About slices
Create slices
Select slices
Set slice options
Lock slices
Adjust slice boundaries
Remove slices
Show or hide slices
Create image maps
SVG
About SVG
Apply SVG effects
Import effects from an SVG file
SVG Interactivity panel overview
Add SVG interactivity to artwork
SVG events
Creating animations
About Flash graphics
Create Flash animations
Working with Illustrator and Flash
Optimizing images
Save For Web & Devices overview
Optimize an image for the web
Save or delete optimization presets
Work with slices in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box
Compress a web graphic to a specific file size
Resize artwork while optimizing
Generate CSS layers for web graphics
Preview optimized images in a web browser
Web graphics optimization options
Web graphic formats
JPEG optimization options
GIF and PNG‑8 optimization options
Optimize transparency in GIF and PNG images
View the color table for an optimized slice
Customize the color table for GIF and PNG‑8 images
PNG‑24 optimization options
WBMP optimization options
SWF optimization options (Illustrator)
SVG optimization options (Illustrator)
Output settings for web graphics
Set output options
HTML output options
Slice output options
Image Maps output settings
Background output settings
Saving Files output settings
Printing
Basic printing tasks
Print a composite of artwork
Make artwork nonprintable
Print dialog box options
Printer resolution and screen frequency
Change the printer resolution and screen frequency
Printing color separations
About color separations
Preparing artwork for color separating
Print color separations
Print an object on all plates
Setting up pages for printing
Reposition artwork on the page
Print artwork on multiple pages
Change the page size and orientation
Scale a document for printing
Printer’s marks and bleed
About printer’s marks
Add printer’s marks
About bleed
Add a bleed
PostScript printing
About PPD files
Change the PPD file
Select a PPD file
Printing long, complex paths
Control how fonts are downloaded to a printer
Change the PostScript level for printing
Printing with color management
Let your application manage colors when printing
Let your printer manage colors when printing
Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
Rasterize gradients and meshes during printing
Setting the proper screen frequency for printing gradients, meshes, and blends
Calculate the maximum blend length for gradients
Printing and saving transparent artwork
About flattening
File formats that retain transparency
Set transparency flattening options for printing
Transparency Flattener options
Preview which areas of artwork will be flattened
Flattener Preview panel overview
About transparency flattener presets
Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
Rename or delete a custom transparency flattener preset
Flatten transparency for individual objects
Rasterize all artwork during printing
Overprinting
About overprinting
Set up overprinting
Overprint black
Simulate or discard overprinting
Trapping
About trapping
Create a trap
Create a spread or choke
Trap a line
Trap a portion of an object
Print presets
Create print presets
Apply print presets
Edit print presets
Delete print presets
Export or import print presets
View a summary of print settings/presets
Automating tasks
Actions
About actions
Actions palette overview
Play an action on a file
Record an action
Insert nonrecordable tasks into actions
Insert a stop
Change settings when playing an action
Exclude commands from an action
Specify playback speed
Edit and rerecord actions
Manage action sets
Play an action on a batch of files
Scripts
Use a script
Data-driven graphics
About data-driven graphics
Variables panel overview
Create variables
Edit variables
Delete variables
Edit dynamic objects
Identifying dynamic objects using XML IDs
Use data sets
About variable libraries
Save a template for data-driven graphics
Graphs
Creating graphs
Create a graph
Adjust column width or decimal precision
Enter graph data
Use graph labels and data sets
Formatting graphs
Formatting and customizing graphs
Change the graph type
Format a graph’s axes
Assign different scales to the value axes
Format columns, bars, and lines
General graph options
Add drop shadows
Change the position of a legend
Format pie graphs
Combine different graph types
Select parts of a graph
Format the text in a graph
Adding pictures and symbols to graphs
About graph designs
Import a column or marker design
Create a column design
Create a sliding column design
Add totals to a column design
Create a marker design
Apply a column design to a graph
Apply a marker design to a line or scatter graph
Reuse a graph design
Keyboard shortcuts
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Customize keyboard shortcuts
Default keyboard shortcuts
Keys for selecting tools
Keys for viewing artwork
Keys for drawing
Keys for selecting
Keys for moving selections
Keys for editing shapes
Keys for painting objects
Keys for working with Live Paint groups
Keys for transforming objects
Keys for working with type
Keys for using panels
Keys for the Actions panel
Keys for the Brushes panel
Keys for the Character and Paragraph panels
Keys for the Color panel
Keys for the Gradient panel
Keys for the Layers panel
Keys for the Swatches panel
Keys for the Transform panel
Keys for the Transparency panel
Function keys
Legal notices
Copyright