ADOBE Illustrator CS6 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Illustrator

New features summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Workspace basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Create documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

System requirements | Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 2: Workspace

Workspace basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Customize the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Create documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Properties panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Tool galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Safe Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Set preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

View artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Tou ch Works pac e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Use the Touch Bar with Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Recover document data after a crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Recovery, undo, and automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Files and templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Rulers, grids, and guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Synchronize settings using Adobe Creative Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Chapter 3: Drawing

Drawing basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Draw pixel-perfect art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Draw simple lines and shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Perspective drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Edit paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Adjust path segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Symbolism tools and symbol sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Create 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Edit artwork using Image Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Define perspective grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Draw pixel-aligned paths for web workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Draw with the Pen, Curvature, or Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

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Chapter 4: Color

About color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Adjust colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Select colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Use the Adobe Color Themes panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Use and create swatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Color groups (harmonies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Color Themes panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Chapter 5: Painting

About painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Paint with fills and strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Live Paint groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Transparency and blending modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Stroke an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Create and edit patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Video tutorial: Define a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Chapter 6: Select and arrange objects

Select objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Move, align, and distribute objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Stack objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Group and expand objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Lock, hide, and delete objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Duplicate objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Rotate and reflect objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Chapter 7: Reshape objects

Crop images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Cut, divide, and trim objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Transform objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Puppet Warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Combine objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Scale, shear, and distort objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Blend objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Reshape using envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Reshape objects with effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Edit clipping masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Build new shapes with Shaper and Shape Builder tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Live Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Work with Live Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

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Create shapes using the Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Enhanced reshape workflows with touch support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Chapter 8: Import, export, and save

Import artwork files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Save artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Export artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Package files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Collect assets and export in batches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Import bitmap images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Import Adobe PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Import artwork from Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Import EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Place multiple files | Illustrator CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Links information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Create Adobe PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Adobe PDF options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Unembed images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

File information and metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Extract CSS | Illustrator CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Video: CSS extraction in Illustrator CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Chapter 9: Type

Create text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Import and export text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Format paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Format type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Create type on a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Scale and rotate type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Character and paragraph styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Line and character spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Tab s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Hyphenation and line breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Tex t and type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Text enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Find missing fonts (Typekit workflow) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Work with Typekit fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Spelling and language dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Update text from Illustrator 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Format Asian characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Arabic and Hebrew type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Indic support with new Composers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

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Chapter 10: Create special effects

Work with effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Appearance attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Graphic styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Create sketches and mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Create a drop shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Drop shadows, glows, and feathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Summary of effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Chapter 11: Web graphics

Best practices for creating web graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Create animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Create graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Slices and image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

SVG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Chapter 12: Printing

Set up documents for printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Print with color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Overprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

PostScript printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Change the page size and orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Print presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Printer’s marks and bleeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Print color separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Print and save transparent artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Print gradients, meshes, and color blends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Trapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

White Overprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Chapter 13: Automate tasks

Data-driven graphics through templates and variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Automation with actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Automation with scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Chapter 14: Keyboard shortcuts

Default keyboard shortcuts | Illustrator CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Customize keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

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New features summary

The October 2017 release of Illustrator CC (version 22.0) rolls out exciting new features for designers and illustrators. Read on for a quick introduction to these features and links to resources offering more information.

For a summary of features introduced in earlier releases of Illustrator CC, see Feature summary | earlier releases .

Properties panel

New in the October 2017 release

The new Properties panel in Illustrator lets you view settings and controls in the context of your current task or workflow. This new panel has been designed with ease of use in mind, ensuring that you have access to the right controls right when you need them.

The Properties panel is available by default in the Essentials workspaces. You can also select Win d ow > Properties to view it.

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To lear n h ow to u s e it, s e e Properties panel .

Puppet Warp tool

New in the October 2017 release

Puppet Warp lets you twist and distort parts of your artwork, such that the transformations appear natural. You can add, move, and rotate pins to seamlessly transform your artwork into different positions and stances using the Puppet Warp tool in Illustrator.

Access this new tool from the Tools panel. To learn how to use it, see Puppet Warp.

Artboard-related improvements

Enhanced in the October 2017 release

Artboards are much easier to work with in this release of Illustrator CC. Also, you can now create 1 to

artboards per document depending on the size of your artboards.

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Select multiple artboards

Do one of the following:

• Shift-click the artboards.

• Shift-click the canvas and drag the cursor to select multiple artboards using a marquee control.

• Press Control/Command+A to select all the artboards in your document.

Align and distribute artboards

You can now align or distribute the selected artboards in Align panel or the Control panel. Do the following:

• Select the artboards you want to align or distribute.

• Do one of the following:

• Click Align in the Control panel and then click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

• Choose Window > Align and then click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

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Align artboards

For more information, see ArtboardsArtboards

Variable fonts

New in the October 2017 release

Illustrator now supports Var i a bl e Font, a new OpenType font format supporting custom attributes like weight, width, slant, optical size, etc. This release of Illustrator ships with several variable fonts for which you can adjust weight, width, and slant using convenient slider controls available when you click Character Styles panel, and Paragraph Styles panel.

Search for variablein the font list to look for variable fonts. Alternatively, look for the icon next to the font name.

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Move the slider to adjust the Weight, Width, and Slant of the font.

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Font list: Some variable fonts

For more information, see Fonts.

OpenType SVG fonts

New in the October 2017 release

Illustrator now supports OpenType SVG fonts that provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph.

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OpenType SVG fonts: Multiple colors and gradients

To use OpenType SVG fonts, follow these steps:

• Create either a text object using the Type tool.

• Set the font to an OpenType SVG font. These fonts are marked with in the font list.

• Sel ect sp ecific glyphs us ing the Gly phs Panel. To v iew th e Glyphs Panel, sele ct Ty pe > Glyphs. Alternatively, you can

open the Glyphs panel by selecting

Window > Typ e > Glyphs.

Using Emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents.

OpenType SVG emoji fonts, such as the EmojiOne font, let you create certain composite glyphs from one or more other glyphs. For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of certain glyphs depicting people and body parts such as hands and nose.

Combine glyphs to form the flags of countries

Combine single-person characters with skin colors

For more information, see Fonts.

Use the Touch Bar with Illustrator

New in the October 2017 release

Illustrator now supports Touch Bar, the multitouch display at the top of the new MacBook Pro keyboard. Using the Touch Bar, you can access Illustrator features and controls right in the context of your current task on the main screen. The Touch Bar supports familiar gestures, such as tap, drag, and slide.

By default, a part of the Touch Bar interface is reserved for macOS system controls. Controls for Illustrator are displayed in the app-specific area in the middle of the Touch Bar interface.

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Tou ch Bar i nter fa ce

For more information, see Use the Touch Bar with Illustrator.

Apply stylistic sets to text

New in the October 2017 release

A stylistic set is a group of glyph alternates that can be applied to a selected block of text. When you apply a stylistic set, the glyphs defined in the set replace the font’s default glyphs in the selected text. The name of the stylistic set provided by the Font Developer is shown in various places in Illustrator. For some fonts, Illustrator displays the stylistic set names as Set 1, Set 2, and so on. You can apply multiple stylistic sets to a range of text.

To apply stylistic sets to your text object, do the following:

1 Select the text block or the text range to which you want to apply a stylistic set.

2 Choose Window > Typ e > OpenType to open the OpenType panel. Now, do one of the following:

• Click the Stylistic Sets icon at the bottom of the panel and choose the desired set.

• Select Stylistic Sets from the panel menu and choose the desired set.

Apply stylistic sets using the OpenType panel

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Add stylistic sets to a character style

To add stylistic sets to a character or a paragraph style, do the following:

1 Choose Window > Typ e > Character Styles/ Paragraph Styles to open the Character Styles panel or the Paragraph

Styles panel.

2 Choose the New Character/ Paragraph Style option from the panel menu.

3 Select the OpenType Features tab on the left of the New Character/ Paragraph Style dialog.

4 Click and choose the desired stylistic sets from the list.

5 Click OK.

For more information, see Use stylistic sets.

Enhanced export experience

New in the October 2017 release

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Now, you can collect objects in the Asset Export panel for export as a single asset or multiple assets. Simply drag your artwork to the Asset Export panel. Alternatively, Multiple Assets

While exporting assets, Illustrator creates subfolders at the export location by default based on the scaling options you choose. For example, if you select multiple scale formats in the Asset Export panel, say 1x 2x, and 3x to export a file as PNG, Illustrator creates subfolders named 1x, 2x, and 3x for the exported files. options, Illustrator names the subfolders based on the file formats selected for exporting—for example, SVG and PDF.

from the context menu.

right-click a piece of artwork and then choose Collect for Export > As

For formats that do not support scaling

Illustrator also exports raster objects accurately when you do one of the following while exporting assets using the Asset Export panel or the Export For Screens dialog box:

• Define a non-integral scale—a scaling value that is not a multiple of 72 pixels.

• Specify the desired width and height that’s not a multiple of 100 pixels.

Note: Exercise caution while exporting artwork or artboards not aligned to the pixel grid or containing strokes not aligned to Inside. The exported asset for such artwork may still have an extra pixel.

For more information, see Collect assets and export in batches .

Add and share text assets using Creative Cloud Libraries

New in the October 2017 release

Now, you can add text objects from your Illustrator documents to Creative Cloud libraries and then share them with other users and across applications. Text assets in a library retain the character/paragraph styles and other attributes originally applied to them. You can reuse text assets in libraries across Illustrator or InDesign documents. However, if a text object has effects and appearances applied to it, you must add it to the library as a graphics asset to preserve them.

For more information, see Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator.

Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator

New in the October 2017 release

Illustrator now supports Microsoft Surface Dial on Windows 10 Anniversary edition and later or directly on Surface Studio. You can use Surface Dial to adjust settings and parameters for your Illustrator documents.

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While using Illustrator, long press Surface Dial to access the following options:

• Undo/ Redo

• Arrange

• Zoom

• Artboard Navigation

• Tools, including Rotate, Scale, Brush, Blob Brush, and Eraser.

For more information, see Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator.

Other enhancements and fixes

Issues fixed in Illustrator CC (version 22.0.1)

Unable to export artwork as PNG other than 72 ppi using the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

Text layout issues while working with Japanese text with the None preset applied for Mojikumi and Kinsoku

Enhancements in Illustrator CC (version 22.0)

You can now disable zoom to selection. Go to Preferences > Selection And Anchor Display and then deselect

the Zoom To Selection option.

You can now create text objects, select text, or edit text in sequence without having to reselect the Text tool.

You can now preview font characteristics, such as size, style, leading, and tracking in real time by simply hovering

over the font characteristics in the Control panel and the Character panel. For details, see Fonts.

The Missing Font dialog is now enabled for Composite fonts. If your document has one or more fonts missing from

the Composite font, an alert message appears when you open it.

The text caret is more responsive now. For example, the text caret now appears promptly on the screen as you type.

The length of the text caret increases or decreases when you change the font size.

Now, when you triple-click anywhere in a paragraph or use Ctrl/Cmd+Up/Down Arrow keys, Illustrator selects

the entire paragraph even if it contains forced line breaks.

When you convert a spot color into a process color (CMYK), Illustrator displays the correct CMYK values

according to the standards communicated by the International Color Consortium (ICC).

Now, scripts in the Actions panel are preserved when you relaunch Illustrator.

A new swatch is now a Global swatch by default.

New Document dialog box improvements:

• The New Document dialog box displays the units of measurement in the text boxes, such as Width and Height.

• You can use the formulas: add, subtract, multiply, or divide for quick computations of the preset dimensions in the

New Document dialog box.

• Yo u can s pec i fy t he Color Mode, Raster Effects, and Preview Mode of your document.

You ca n no w u se th e Path > Join (Ctrl/ Command + J) command in Illustrator to join the endpoints of compound

paths and artwork in different groups.

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Now, when the folder containing the Illustrator document and the linked files is moved, Illustrator automatically

finds and updates the linked files using the current path of the Illustrator document.

Workspace basics

You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a look similar so that you can move between the applications easily.) You can adapt Illustrator to the way you work by selecting from several preset workspaces or by creating one of your own.

Start workspace

The Start workspace in Illustrator gives you quick access to your recent files, libraries, and mobile creations. Depending on your subscription status, the Start workspace may also display content tailored for your requirements. You can also look for the right Adobe Stock asset for your project directly from within the Start workspace.

Illustrator displays the Start workspace at launch or whenever no documents are open.

workspace. (The workspaces of the different applications in Creative Cloud

Start workspace

Work with Start workspace

Toggle between tile and list views Click the List icon ( ) or the Tile icon ( ).

Interact with your Libraries Use the integrated Libraries panel to quickly view, work with, or edit assets in your own

or shared Creative Cloud Libraries.

Find a Stock asset Enter a keyword in the Search field. Illustrator displays the search results from Adobe Stock in a new browser window.

Disable the Start workspace

1 Select Preferences > General.

2 Deselect Show The Start Workspace When No Documents Are Open.

You can use the keyboard shortcuts to open files (Ctrl/Cmd + O) or start new documents (Ctrl/Cmd + N).

Create documents

When you create a document in Illustrator, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety of templates, including templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include stock assets and illustrations that you can build on to complete your project. When you open a template in Illustrator, you can work with it just as you would work with any other Illustrator document (.ai).

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Illustrator.

For more information, see Create documents.

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New Document dialog | Templates from Adobe Stock and presets

Recent Files workspace

Use the Recent Files workspace to review a list or thumbnail view of the files you have been working on recently. Select Recent Files from the Workspace Switcher menu to view Recent Files workspace.

To set the number of files you want to view, modify the value of Number Of Recent Files To Display text box (Preferences

> File Handling & Clipboard > Files).

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Recent Files workspace

This feature is disabled by default. To enable the Recent Files workspace from the Preferences dialog, select the Show The Recent Files Workspace While Opening A File check box (Preferences > General tab).

Workspace overview

• The Application frame groups all the workspace elements in a single, integrated window that lets you treat the

application as a single unit. When you move or resize the Application frame or any of its elements, all the elements within it respond to each other so none overlap. Panels don’t disappear when you switch applications or when you accidentally click out of the application. If you work with two or more applications, you can position each application side by side on the screen or on multiple monitors. If you are using a Mac and prefer the traditional, freeform user interface, you can turn off the Application frame. Select off.

• The Application bar across the top contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows only), and other application

controls. On Mac, the application bar is available only when Application frame is off. You can toggle it on or off using the Window menu.

• The Tools panel contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and so on. Related tools are

grouped.

• The Control panel displays options for the currently selected object.

• The Document window displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be tabbed and, in certain cases,

grouped and docked.

• Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.

Window > Application Frame to toggle it on or

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Default Illustrator workspace A Tabb ed Docume nt w indows B Application bar C Workspace switcher D Panel title bar E Collapse To Icons button F Four panel groups in vertical dock G

Control panel H Tools panel

Properties panel

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

The Properties panel in Illustrator lets you view settings and controls in the context of your current task or workflow. This new panel has been designed with ease of use in mind, ensuring that you have access to the right controls right when you need them.

The Properties panel is available by default in the Essentials workspaces. You can also select Wi n do w > Properties to view it.

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Properties panel

For details, see Properties panel .

Manage windows and panels

Hide or show all panels

• To hide or show all panels, including the Tools panel and Control panel, press Ta b.

• To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel, press Shift+Tab.

Ti p: You can temporarily display hidden panels if Auto-Show Hidden Panels is selected in Interface preferences. It’s always on in Illustrator. Move the pointer to the edge of the application window (Windows®) or to the edge of the monitor (Mac

Display panel options

Click the panel menu icon in the upper-right corner of the panel.

Ti p: You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized.

Adjust panel brightness

In User Interface preferences, you can customize the interface to sport one of the four available color options designed for optimal user experience:

Note: The canvas color in Illustrator is matched to the user interface brightness by default. Choose Preferences > User Interface > Canvas Color > White

OS®) and hover over the strip that appears.

Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light, and Light.

to change the canvas color to white.

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Reconfigure the Tools panel

You can display the tools in the Tools panel in a single column, or side by side in two columns.

Click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel.

If you work with only a specific set of tools, you can create a customized tools panel that contains only those tools. For details, see

Custom tools panel .

Enter values in panels and dialog boxes

You enter values using the same methods in all panels and dialog boxes. You can also perform simple math in any box that accepts numeric values. For example, if you want to move a selected object 3 units to the right using the current measurement units, you don’t have to work out the new horizontal position—simply type +3 after the current value in the Transform panel.

Enter a value in a panel or dialog box

Do any of the following:

Ways to enter values

• A Click the arrow buttons in the panel to increase or decrease the value.

• B Type a value in the box, and press Enter or Return.

• C Select a value from the menu associated with the box.

• D Drag the slider.

• E Drag the dial.

Note: Press Cmd/ Ctrl key while clicking the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the numerical values in fractions. For example, when you press Cmd/ Ctrl key while clicking Arrow Up to increase the Stroke Weight, the value increases from 1 point to 1.1 point.

Calculate values in a panel or dialog box

1 In a text box that accepts numerical values, do one of the following:

• To replace the entire current value with a mathematical expression, select the entire current value.

• To use the current value as part of a mathematical expression, click before or after the current value.

2 Type a simple mathematical expression using a single mathematical operator, such as + (plus), - (minus), x

(multiplication), / (division), or %

(percent).

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For example, 0p0 + 3 or 5mm + 4. Similarly, 3cm * 50% equals 3 centimeters multiplied by 50%, or 1.50 cm, and 50pt + 25% equals 50 points plus 25% of 50 points, or 62.5 points.

3 Press Enter or Return to apply the calculation.

Control panel overview

The Control panel offers quick access to options related to the objects you select. By default, the Control panel is docked at the top of the workspace.

Options displayed in the Control panel vary depending on the type of object or tool you select. For example, when you select a text object, the Control panel displays text-formatting options in addition to options for changing the color, placement, and dimensions of the object. When a selection tool is active, you can access Document Setup and Preferences from the Control panel.

Control panel A Hidden options B Link to another panel C Panel menu

When text in the Control panel is blue and underlined, you can click the text to display a related panel or dialog box. For example, click the word Stroke to display the Stroke panel.

Change the kinds of controls that appear in the Control panel

Select or deselect options in the Control panel menu.

Open and close a panel or dialog box from the Control panel

1 Click a blue underlined word to open its associated panel or dialog box.

2 Click anywhere outside the panel or dialog box to close it.

Dock the Control panel at the bottom of the workspace

Choose Dock To Bottom from the Control panel menu.

Convert the Control panel to a floating panel

Drag the gripper bar (located on the left edge of the panel) away from its current position.

To redock the Control panel, drag the gripper bar to the top or bottom of the application window (Windows) or screen (Mac

OS).

About screen modes

You can change the visibility of the illustration window and menu bar using the mode options at the bottom of the Tools panel. To access panels when in Full Screen Mode, position the cursor at the left or right edge of the screen and the panels will pop up. If you’ve moved them from their default locations, you can access them from the Window menu.

You can choose one of the following modes:

• Normal Screen Mode displays artwork in a standard window, with a menu bar at the top and scroll bars on the

sides.

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• Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar displays artwork in a full-screen window, with a menu bar at the top and scroll

bars.

• Full Screen Mode displays artwork in a full-screen window, with no title bar or menu bar.

Use F key to toggle between the screen modes.

Using the status bar

The status bar appears at the lower-left edge of the illustration window. It displays any of the following:

• current zoom level

• current tool in use

• current artboard in use

• navigation controls for multiple artboards

Search box

Search for Help topics and assets from Adobe Stock directly from within the Illustrator workspace. Select one of the following options from the drop-down menu of the search box on the right side of the Application bar:

• Adobe Stock

• Adobe Help

Search for Adobe Stock assets

You can search for high-quality, curated, royalty-free stock illustrations and vector graphics from for all your creative projects from right within Illustrator.

1 In the search box in the upper-right corner of the workspace, enter the name of the item that you want to find.

2 Press Enter.

Note: You can also search for stock asset by selecting File > Search Adobe Stock.

All assets available from Adobe Stock for a particular search query appear in a separate browser window.

Search Adobe Help

Use the Search For Help box to search for Help topics and online content. If you have an active Internet connection, you can access all content on the Community Help website. If you search for Help without an active Internet connection, search results are limited to Help content that is included with Illustrator.

1 In the search box, type the name of the item on which you want to search (such as a feature, application, or tool).

2 Press Enter.

All topics available from the Community Help center appear in a separate browser window.

Use Illustrator with the Touch Bar on M acB ook Pro

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

Illustrator supports Touch Bar, the multitouch display at the top of the new MacBook Pro keyboard. Using the Touch Bar, you can access Illustrator features and controls right in the context of your current task on the main screen. The Touch Bar supports familiar gestures, such as tap, drag, and slide. For details, see

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Use Illustrator with Microsoft Dial

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

Illustrator supports the new Microsoft Dial on Windows 10 Anniversary edition and later or directly on the SurfaceStudio. You can use Dial to adjust settings and parameters for your Illustrator documents.

While using Illustrator, long press the Dial to access the following options:

• Undo/ Redo

• Arrange

• Zoom

• Artboard Navigation

• Tools, including Rotate, Scale, Brush, Blob Brush, and Eraser.

For details, see Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator.

Create documents

Introduced in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 release

While creating a document in Illustrator, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety

templates, including templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include assets and illustrations that you can build on to

of complete your project. When you open a template in Illustrator, you can work with it just as you would work with other Illustrator document (.ai).

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Illustrator.

any

Templates and presets

Te mp l at es provide rich, inspirational, and reusable content for your documents. You can download templates from

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templates with predefined dimensions and settings for common tasks, such as designing business cards or brochures. Templates open as .ai files in Illustrator and generally include multiple artboards.

Blank Document Presets are blank documents with predefined dimensions and settings. Presets make designing for

specific device form factors or use cases easier. For example, you can use a preset to quickly start designing for the iPad Pro. Blank document presets have predefined size, color, mode, unit, orientation, positioning, bleed, and resolution settings. You can

Templates and presets are categorized into these sets:

modify these settings before creating a document using the preset.

• Mobile

• We b

• Print

• Film & Video

• Art & Illustration

Access the New Document dialog

1 Launch Illustrator.

2 Do one of the following:

• Select File > New.

• Click New or Start New in the Start workspace.

• Use the following keyboard shortcut:

• (Mac) Cmd+N

• (Windows) Ctrl+N

• Right-click the tab for an open document and choose New Document from the in-context menu.

Overview: New Document dialog

Among other operations, the New Document dialog lets you:

• Create documents using selected templates from Adobe Stock across several categories: Mobile, Web, Print, Film &

Video, and Art & Illustration

• Search for more templates on Adobe Stock and create documents using them

• Quickly access files, templates, and items that you've have recently accessed (Recents tab)

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• Quickly access templates that you've downloaded from Adobe Stock (Saved tab)

• Create documents using Blank Document presets for multiple categories and device form factors. Before opening

the presets, you can modify their settings.

Mobile tab | New Document dialog box

Create documents using presets

1 In the New Document dialog box, click a category tab: Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, or Art & Illustration.

2 Select a preset.

3 Optionally, change the settings for the selected preset in the Preset Details pane on the right. See Modify presets to

understand how.

4 Click Create. Illustrator opens a new document based on the preset.

Modify presets

Before opening a document using the preset, you can modify its settings in the right pane.

1 Specify a name for the document.

2 Specify the following options for the selected preset:

Width and Height: Specify the size of the artboard. Select the unit from the pop-up menu.

Orientation: Specify a page orientation for the document: Landscape or Portrait

Artboard: Specify the number of artboards in the document

Bleed: Specify the position of the bleed along each side of the artboard. To use different values for different sides,

delink the dimensions by clicking the chain (

) icon.

Color Mode: Specify a color mode for the document: RGB or CMYK. Changing the color mode converts the default contents (swatches, brushes, symbols, graphic styles) of the

selected new document profile to a new color mode,

resulting in a color change.

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3 Click More Settings to specify additional options:

Raster Effects: Specify the resolution for raster effects in the document. It is especially important to set this at High when you plan to output to a high-end printer at high

resolution. The Print profile sets this at High by default.

Preview Mode: Set the default preview mode for the document:

• Default displays artwork created in the document in vector vie w with fu ll color. Zo om in/out ret ains smoot hness

curves.

in the

• Pixel displays artwork with a rasterized (pixelated) appearance. It does not actually rasterize the content, but

displays a simulated preview, as if the contents were rasters.

• Overprint provides an “ink preview” that approximates how blending, transparency, and overprinting will

appear in color-separated output.

Note: You can change the Preview Mode at any time using the Vie w menu.

4 Click Create Document to open a document with the preset settings.

Note: Options in the More Settings dialog are similar to options in the legacy New Document dialog in earlier versions of Illustrator. See

Files and templatesfor more information about those options.

Create documents using templates from Stock

Illustrator comes with a variety of templates from Adobe Stock, including templates for tablet illustrations, mobile illustrations, laptop illustrations, letterheads,

basic fonts or fonts that can be synced from Adobe Typekit. To create a document using a template, do one of the

use following:

1 In the New Document dialog, click a category tab: Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, or Art & Illustration.

2 Select a template.

envelopes, business cards, and many more. Templates with font layers

3 Click See Preview to view a preview of the template. A preview is an image representation of a template that you can

review and decide if you want to license that template.

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Preview the template before licensing it

4 Click Download.

Illustrator prompts you to license the template from Adobe Stock. See Adobe Stock Help for more information about licensing and related considerations. After the template has been licensed using asset entitlements or credits in your account, you can open it as an Illustrator document (.ai)

for you to work on.

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Template licensing in progress

5 After the template has downloaded, click Open. While opening the template, if you're prompted to sync some fonts

from Typekit, click OK.

You can now work with the open document in Illustrator just as you would work with any other .ai document.

Note: Downloaded templates are added to a Creative Cloud library called Stock Templates. You can access this library in the Libraries panel.

Libraries panel | Stock Template library

Note: Illustrator templates carry the .ait filename extension. However, when you open a template, an instance of it is opened as a document with the .ai extension. Changes made to that .ai document don't affect the original .ait template.

Search for more templates from Adobe Stock

Aside from the preselected templates from Adobe Stock, you can search for and download numerous other such templates directly from within the New Document dialog.

• While work ing in th e New Doc ument dial og, enter a search str ing in the Fin d More Templates On Adob e Sto ck box.

Alternatively, simply click Go to browse the full selection of available templates.

Illustrator opens the Adobe Stock website in a new browser window for you to explore. License and download the one that best meets your project's requirements. For more information about Adobe Stock, see

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Explore and license templates on the Adobe Stock website

Create documents using blank templates

Blank templates make designing common deliverables, such as brochures, business cards, CD covers, and T-shirts, easier. Do the following to create a document using a blank template:

1 Select File > New From Template.

2 In the New From Template dialog, open the Blank Templates folder.

Note: Alternatively, you can open the Blank Templates folder directly from the New Document window. In the New Document dialog, click More Settings and then click Templates.

3 Select a template; for example, Gift Certificate Pouchette.ait. Click New. Illustrator creates a new document based

on the selected blank template. You can work with it just as you'd work with any other .ai document.

Note: Illustrator templates carry the .ait filename extension. When you open a template, an instance of it is opened as a document with the .ai extension. Changes made to that .ai document don't affect the original .ait template.

Use the legacy File New experience

If necessary, you may disable the latest New Document experience and revert to the experience that Illustrator provided by default in versions CC 2015.3 and earlier.

1 Select Edit > Preferences > General.

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2 Select Use Legacy File New Interface. Click OK.

Enable the legacy experience (not recommended)

Note: See Files and templatesfor more information about options in the legacy New Document dialog.

To ols

Tools panel over view

When you start Illustrator, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. You use tools in the Tools panel to create, select, and manipulate objects in Illustrator. Some tools have options that appear when you double-click a tool. These include tools that let you select, type, paint, draw, sample, edit, and move images. pointer over it.

To see the name of a tool, hover the

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Overview: Tools panel

Work with the Tools panel

View hidden tools

You can expand some tools to show tools hidden beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon signals the presence of hidden tools. Hold down the mouse button on the visible tool to view the tools hidden under it.

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View hidden tools in the Tools panel

View tool options

Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. Additionally, you can also double-click a tool in the Tools panel to view and change the settings for that tool.

Move the Tools panel

You can move the Tools panel by dragging its title bar.

View the Tools panel in double-stack or single-column

Click the double-arrow on the title bar to toggle between the double-stack and single-column view of the Tools panel.

Hide the Tools panel

You can also show or hide the Tools panel by choosing Window > To ol s .

Tear off hidden tools into a separate panel

Drag the pointer over the arrow at the end of the hidden tools panel and release the mouse button.

Close a separate tools panel

Click the close button on the panel’s title bar. The tools return to the Tools panel.

Change drawing modes and screen modes using the Tools panel

Click the icons at the bottom of the Tools panel to change the drawing mode from Draw Normal ( ) to Draw Behind ( ) or Draw Inside ( ).

Additionally, you can also change the screen mode by clicking the Change Screen Mode icon ( ) at t he bottom of t he Tools panel and choosing the desired screen mode.

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Create custom tools panels

If you work with only a specific set of tools, you can create a customized tools panel that contains only those tools.

1 Click Win d ow > To ol s > New Tools Panel, and then provide a name and click OK.

A new Too l s p ane l is created and displayed.

A Provide a name for the new tools panel B New tools panel created with a default fill/stroke proxy

Note: A Fill/Stroke proxy is added by default. This cannot be removed from the custom tools panel.

2 Drag a tool from an existing tools panel into a new or existing custom tools panel. If the tool is part of a group of

tools, then the topmost tool is copied. Release the mouse when the cursor appears with a plus sign (

Tools from three tool groups (left) have been added to create a tools panel (right)

Note: Dragging and dropping a tool when the cursor appears with a cancel operation sign ( ) performs no addition or deletion of tools.

3 To get a tool that does not appear as the top-most tool in a group, do one of the following:

a Press Alt/ Option and click the tool group. This action cycles through all the tools present in the tool group.

b When the tool that you want appears at the top of the group, drag it to the custom tools panel. Release the mouse

when the cursor appears with a plus sign (

c Drag the tool group into an empty portion of the workspace, to view it as a toolstrip.

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d From the toolstrip, drag a tool to the new tools panel. Release the mouse when the cursor appears with a plus

sign (

4 To remove a tool, drag the tool out of the custom tools panel, and drop it when the cursor appears with a minus sign

(

Note: A tool can be removed from a tools panel only when a document is open.

5 To swap positions of tools within a custom-created tools panel, press the Alt/ Option key, drag a tool on top of the

tool you want to swap positions with, and then drop the tool when the cursor appears with a two-way arrow sign

(

Note: A custom tools panel is persistent in the workspace it is created in. If you change to another workspace and then return to the original workspace, any tools panels created are retained and reopened.

Manage custom tools panels

1 Click Win d ow s > To o ls > Manage Tools Panel.

Actions that you can perform with the Manage Tools Panel dialog A View the list of custom tools panels B Delete selected tools panel C Create a tools panel, or a copy of the selected tools panel D Rename a selected tools panel

2 In the Manage Tools Panel dialog, do one of the following:

• Rename: Select a tools panel from the list, type a new name for the panel in the text box, and then click OK.

• New/Copy: Select a tools panel from the list, click the copy button, rename the tools panel if required, and then

click OK. If no tools panel is selected, a new tools panel is created.

• Delete: Select a tools panel from the list, and then click the Delete button.

Select a tool

Do one of the following:

• Click a tool in the Tools panel. If there is a small triangle at a tool’s lower-right corner, hold down the mouse button

to view the hidden tools, and then click the tool you want to select.

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• Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS), and then click a tool to cycle through and select hidden tools.

• Press the tool’s keyboard shortcut. The keyboard shortcut is displayed in its tool tip. For example, you can select the

Move tool by pressing the V key.

Selecting a hidden tool A Tools panel B Active tool C Tear off panel with hidden tools D Hidden tool triangle E Tool name and shortcut

Ti p: To hide tool tips, choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (macOS), and deselect Show Tool Tips.

Change tool pointers

The pointer for most tools matches the tool’s icon. Each pointer has a different hotspot, where an effect or action begins. With most tools, you can switch to precise cursors, which appear as cross hairs centered on the hotspot, and provide for greater accuracy when working with detailed artwork.

Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (macOS), and select Use Precise Cursors.

Alternatively, press CapsLock on the keyboard.

System requirements | Illustrator

Illustrator CC October 2017 (22.0) system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10*

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64 bit

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

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• To view Illustrator in HiDPI mode, your monitor must support a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more.

• OpenGL 4.x

• To use the new Touch workspace in Illustrator, you must have a touch-screen-enabled tablet/monitor running

Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended).

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: an Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD video adapter from those listed below

(medium/high-end recommended); 1 GB performance

* October 2017 release of Illustrator CC is not supported on Windows 10 version 1507.

Note: Graphics processor-powered features are not supported on 32-bit Windows platforms.

of VRAM (2 GB recommended); and latest drivers for optimal

• The following video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:

NVIDIA

• NVIDIA Quadro K Series

• NVIDIA Quadro 6xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 5xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 4xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxxD

• NVIDIA Quadro 6xx

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX Series (4xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, 9xx, Titan)

• NVIDIA Quadro M Series

• NVIDIA Quadro P Series

Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest device drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards. Get the latest GPU card device drivers:

- Quadro series - Other series

Intel •Intel HD Graphics 4600 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 6000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 6000 Series

AMD

The following series are supported only on Windows 8 or later:

• AMD Radeon R9 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon R7 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Graphics

• AMD FirePro V Series Graphics

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• AMD FirePro W Series Graphics

Note: Ensure that you have the latest GPU card drivers installed. See Illustrator GPU Performance | Driver Updates .

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

macOS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• mac OS version 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS version 10.12 (Sierra), or Mac OS X version 10.11 (El Capitan)

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: Your Mac should have a minimum of 1 GB of VRAM (2 GB recommended),

and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater.

• To check for VRAM values: Choose Mac > About This Mac (Graphics information).

• To find out if your computer supports the required OpenGL version (4.0 or later), see this Apple Support

document.

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

* NOTICE TO USERS:

• Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This

product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional

Policy. Applications and services may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or

discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

• Illustrator is not supported on virtualized or server-based environments. These environments include, but are not

limited to, Citrix Metaframe/Citrix Presentation Server, NVIDIA Grid, Microsoft App-V, VMWare, Parallels, and Virtual PC. "Thin Clients" are also server-based environments.

Language versions

Illustrator CC is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

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Nederlands

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

????*

???

????

???

* Arabic and Hebrew supported in a Middle Eastern version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and an English interface; also in a North African French (Français*) version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and a French interface.

Illustrator CC (2017) system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64 bit

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• To view Illustrator in HiDPI mode, your monitor must support a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more.

• OpenGL 4.x

• To use the new Touch workspace in Illustrator, you must have a touch-screen-enabled tablet/monitor running

Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended).

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: an Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD video adapter from those listed below

(medium/high-end recommended); 1 GB performance

Note: Graphics processor-powered features are not supported on 32-bit Windows platforms.

• The following video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:

NVIDIA

of VRAM (2 GB recommended); and latest drivers for optimal

• NVIDIA Quadro K Series

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• NVIDIA Quadro 6xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 5xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 4xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxxD

• NVIDIA Quadro 6xx

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX Series (4xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, 9xx, Titan)

• NVIDIA Quadro M Series

• NVIDIA Quadro P Series

Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest device drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards. Get the latest GPU card device drivers:

- Quadro series - Other series

Intel

• Intel HD Graphics 4600 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 6000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 6000 Series

AMD

The following series are supported only on Windows 8 or later:

• AMD Radeon R9 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon R7 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Graphics

• AMD FirePro V Series Graphics

• AMD FirePro W Series Graphics

Note: Ensure that you have the latest GPU card drivers installed. See Illustrator GPU Performance | Driver Updates .

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

macOS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• macOS version 10.12 (Sierra) or Mac OS X version 10.11 (El Capitan)

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

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• Optional: To use GPU Performance: Your Mac should have a minimum of 1 GB of VRAM (2 GB recommended),

and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater.

• To check for VRAM values: Choose Mac > About This Mac (Graphics information).

• To find out if your computer supports the required OpenGL version (4.0 or later), see this Apple Support

document.

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

* NOTICE TO USERS:

• Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This

product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional

Policy. Applications and services may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or

discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

• Illustrator is not supported on virtualized or server-based environments. These environments include, but are not

limited to, Citrix Metaframe/Citrix Presentation Server, NVIDIA Grid, Microsoft App-V, VMWare, Parallels, and Virtual PC. "Thin Clients" are also server-based environments.

Language versions

Illustrator CC is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

????*

???

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Illustrator CC (2015) system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64 bit

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• To view Illustrator in HiDPI mode, your monitor must support a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more.

• OpenGL 4.x

• To use the new Touch workspace in Illustrator, you must have a touch-screen-enabled tablet/monitor running

Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended).

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: an Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD video adapter from those listed below

(medium/high-end recommended); 1 GB performance

of VRAM (2 GB recommended); and latest drivers for optimal

• The following video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:

NVIDIA

• NVIDIA Quadro K Series

• NVIDIA Quadro 6xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 5xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 4xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxx

• NVIDIA Quadro 2xxxD

• NVIDIA Quadro 6xx

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX Series (4xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, 9xx, Titan)

• NVIDIA Quadro M Series

Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest device drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards. Get the latest GPU card device drivers:

- Quadro series - Other series

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Intel

• Intel HD Graphics 4600 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5000 Series

• Intel HD Graphics 6000 Series

• Intel Iris Graphics 6000 Series

AMD

The following series are supported only on Windows 8 or later:

• AMD Radeon R9 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon R7 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Graphics

• AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Graphics

• AMD FirePro V Series Graphics

• AMD FirePro W Series Graphics

Ensure that you have the latest GPU card drivers installed. See Illustrator GPU Performance | Driver Updates .

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X versions 10.9, 10.10, or 10.11(recommended)

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: Your Mac should have a minimum of 512 MB of VRA M (2 GB r ecomm end ed) ,

and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater.

• To c h e ck f o r V R AM v a lue s : Mac 10.9: Choose Mac > About This Mac > More Info (Graphics information).

Mac 10.10, 10.11: Choose Mac > About This Mac (Graphics information).

• To find out if your computer supports the required OpenGL version (4.0 or later), see this Apple Support

document.

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

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* NOTICE TO USERS:

• Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This

product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional

Policy. Applications and services may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or

discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

• Illustrator is not supported on virtualized or server-based environments. These environments include, but are not

limited to, Citrix Metaframe/Citrix Presentation Server, NVIDIA Grid, Microsoft App-V, VMWare, Parallels, and Virtual PC. "Thin Clients" are also server-based environments.

Language versions

Illustrator CC is available in the following languages:

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Français

Français*

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Italiano

Nederlands

Polish

Português (Brasil)

Svenska

Tu rk i s h

Ukrainian

čeština

Русский

????*

???

????

???

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Illustrator CC (2014) system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor

• Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64 bit

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• To view Illustrator in HiDPI mode, your monitor must support a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more. For more

information, see

• To use the new Touch workspace in Illustrator, you must have a touch-screen-enabled tablet/monitor running

Windows 8.1 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended).

• Optional: To use GPU Performance: NVIDIA video adapter listed below (medium/high-end recommended); 1

of VRAM (2 GB recommended); and latest NVIDIA drivers for optimal performance (recommended driver

GB version 335.23 or later for GeForce series, version 332.76 or later for Quadro series)

• The following NVIDIA video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:

Enhanced Windows Support: HiDPI devices.

• Quadro K Series

• Quadro 6xxx

• Quadro 5xxx

• Quadro 4xxx

• Quadro 2xxx

• Quadro 2xxxD

• Quadro 6xx

• GeForce GTX Series (4xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, Ti ta n)

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, v10.9, or v10.10

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and

access to online services.*

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NOTICE TO USERS: Illustrator is not supported on virtualized or server-based environments. These environments include, but are not limited to, Citrix Metaframe/Citrix Presentation Server, NVIDIA Grid, Microsoft App-V, VMWare, Parallels, and Virtual PC. "Thin Clients" are also server-based environments.

Illustrator CC system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2G B of RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64 bit

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support

• Mac OS X v10.6.8, v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9

• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install

on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

• 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended)

• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and

access to online services.*

* This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe online services, including the Adobe® Creative Cloud™ service, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. The applications and online services are not available in all

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Workspace basics

Start workspace

workspace. (The workspaces of the different applications in Creative Cloud

Illustrator displays the Start workspace at launch or whenever no documents are open.

Start workspace

Work with Start workspace

Toggle between tile and list views Click the List icon ( ) or the Tile icon ( ).

Interact with your Libraries Use the integrated Libraries panel to quickly view, work with, or edit assets in your own

or shared Creative Cloud Libraries.

Find a Stock asset Enter a keyword in the Search field. Illustrator displays the search results from Adobe Stock in a new browser window.

Disable the Start workspace

1 Select Preferences > General.

2 Deselect Show The Start Workspace When No Documents Are Open.

You can use the keyboard shortcuts to open files (Ctrl/Cmd + O) or start new documents (Ctrl/Cmd + N).

Create documents

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Illustrator.

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For more information, see Create documents.

New Document dialog | Templates from Adobe Stock and presets

Recent Files workspace

Use the Recent Files workspace to review a list or thumbnail view of the files you have been working on recently. Select Recent Files from the Workspace Switcher menu to view Recent Files workspace.

To set the number of files you want to view, modify the value of Number Of Recent Files To Display text box (Preferences

> File Handling & Clipboard > Files).

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Recent Files workspace

Workspace overview

• The Application frame groups all the workspace elements in a single, integrated window that lets you treat the

• The Application bar across the top contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows only), and other application

controls. On Mac, the application bar is available only when Application frame is off. You can toggle it on or off using the Window menu.

• The Tools panel contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and so on. Related tools are

grouped.

• The Control panel displays options for the currently selected object.

• The Document window displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be tabbed and, in certain cases,

grouped and docked.

• Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.

Window > Application Frame to toggle it on or

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Default Illustrator workspace A Tabb ed Docume nt w indows B Application bar C Workspace switcher D Panel title bar E Collapse To Icons button F Four panel groups in vertical dock G

Control panel H Tools panel

Properties panel

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

The Properties panel is available by default in the Essentials workspaces. You can also select Wi n do w > Properties to view it.

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Properties panel

For details, see Properties panel .

Manage windows and panels

Hide or show all panels

• To hide or show all panels, including the Tools panel and Control panel, press Ta b.

• To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel, press Shift+Tab.

Display panel options

Click the panel menu icon in the upper-right corner of the panel.

Ti p: You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized.

Adjust panel brightness

In User Interface preferences, you can customize the interface to sport one of the four available color options designed for optimal user experience:

Note: The canvas color in Illustrator is matched to the user interface brightness by default. Choose Preferences > User Interface > Canvas Color > White

OS®) and hover over the strip that appears.

Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light, and Light.

to change the canvas color to white.

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Reconfigure the Tools panel

You can display the tools in the Tools panel in a single column, or side by side in two columns.

Click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel.

If you work with only a specific set of tools, you can create a customized tools panel that contains only those tools. For details, see

Custom tools panel .

Enter values in panels and dialog boxes

Enter a value in a panel or dialog box

Do any of the following:

Ways to enter values

• A Click the arrow buttons in the panel to increase or decrease the value.

• B Type a value in the box, and press Enter or Return.

• C Select a value from the menu associated with the box.

• D Drag the slider.

• E Drag the dial.

Calculate values in a panel or dialog box

1 In a text box that accepts numerical values, do one of the following:

• To replace the entire current value with a mathematical expression, select the entire current value.

• To use the current value as part of a mathematical expression, click before or after the current value.

2 Type a simple mathematical expression using a single mathematical operator, such as + (plus), - (minus), x

(multiplication), / (division), or %

(percent).

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For example, 0p0 + 3 or 5mm + 4. Similarly, 3cm * 50% equals 3 centimeters multiplied by 50%, or 1.50 cm, and 50pt + 25% equals 50 points plus 25% of 50 points, or 62.5 points.

3 Press Enter or Return to apply the calculation.

Control panel overview

The Control panel offers quick access to options related to the objects you select. By default, the Control panel is docked at the top of the workspace.

Control panel A Hidden options B Link to another panel C Panel menu

When text in the Control panel is blue and underlined, you can click the text to display a related panel or dialog box. For example, click the word Stroke to display the Stroke panel.

Change the kinds of controls that appear in the Control panel

Select or deselect options in the Control panel menu.

Open and close a panel or dialog box from the Control panel

1 Click a blue underlined word to open its associated panel or dialog box.

2 Click anywhere outside the panel or dialog box to close it.

Dock the Control panel at the bottom of the workspace

Choose Dock To Bottom from the Control panel menu.

Convert the Control panel to a floating panel

Drag the gripper bar (located on the left edge of the panel) away from its current position.

To redock the Control panel, drag the gripper bar to the top or bottom of the application window (Windows) or screen (Mac

OS).

About screen modes

You can choose one of the following modes:

• Normal Screen Mode displays artwork in a standard window, with a menu bar at the top and scroll bars on the

sides.

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• Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar displays artwork in a full-screen window, with a menu bar at the top and scroll

bars.

• Full Screen Mode displays artwork in a full-screen window, with no title bar or menu bar.

Use F key to toggle between the screen modes.

Using the status bar

The status bar appears at the lower-left edge of the illustration window. It displays any of the following:

• current zoom level

• current tool in use

• current artboard in use

• navigation controls for multiple artboards

Search box

• Adobe Stock

• Adobe Help

Search for Adobe Stock assets

You can search for high-quality, curated, royalty-free stock illustrations and vector graphics from for all your creative projects from right within Illustrator.

1 In the search box in the upper-right corner of the workspace, enter the name of the item that you want to find.

2 Press Enter.

Note: You can also search for stock asset by selecting File > Search Adobe Stock.

All assets available from Adobe Stock for a particular search query appear in a separate browser window.

Search Adobe Help

1 In the search box, type the name of the item on which you want to search (such as a feature, application, or tool).

2 Press Enter.

All topics available from the Community Help center appear in a separate browser window.

Use Illustrator with the Touch Bar on M acB ook Pro

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

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Use Illustrator with Microsoft Dial

Introduced in the October 2017 release of Illustrator CC

While using Illustrator, long press the Dial to access the following options:

• Undo/ Redo

• Arrange

• Zoom

• Artboard Navigation

• Tools, including Rotate, Scale, Brush, Blob Brush, and Eraser.

For details, see Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator.

Customize the workspace

Manage windows and panels

You can create a custom workspace by moving and manipulating Document windows and panels. You can also save workspaces and switch among them.

Rearrange, dock, or float document windows

When you open more than one file, the Document windows are tabbed.

• To rearrange tabbed Document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To undock (float or untab) a Document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.

• To dock a Document window to a separate group of Document windows, drag the window into the group.

• To create groups of stacked or tiled documents, drag the window to one of the drop zones along the top, bottom, or

sides of another window. You can also select a layout for the group by using the Layout button on the Application bar.

• To switch to another document in a t abbed group when dragging a selection, drag the selection over the document’s

tab for a moment.

Dock and undock panels

A dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together, generally in a vertical orientation. You dock and undock panels by moving them into and out of a dock.

• To dock a panel, drag it by its tab into the dock, at the top, bottom, or in between other panels.

• To dock a panel group, drag it by its title bar (the solid empty bar above the tabs) into the dock.

• To remove a panel or panel group, drag it out of the dock by its tab or title bar. You can drag it into another dock or

make it free-floating.

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Navigator panel being dragged out to new dock, indicated by blue vertical highlight

Navigator panel now in its own dock

You can prevent panels from filling all the space in a dock. Drag the bottom edge of the dock up so it no longer meets the edge of the workspace.

Move panels

As you move panels, you see blue highlighted drop zones, areas where you can move the panel. For example, you can move a panel up or down in a dock by dragging it to the narrow blue drop zone above or below another panel. If you drag to an area that is not a drop zone, the panel floats freely in the workspace.

Note: The position of the mouse (rather than the position of the panel), activates the drop zone, so if you can’t see the drop zone, try dragging the mouse to the place where the drop zone should be.

• To move a panel, drag it by its tab.

• To move a panel group, drag the title bar.

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Narrow blue drop zone indicates Swatches panel will be docked on its own above the Color panel group. A Title bar B Tab C Drop zone

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while moving a panel to prevent it from docking. Press Esc while moving the panel to cancel the operation.

Add and remove panels

If you remove all panels from a dock, the dock disappears. You can create a dock by moving panels to the right edge of the workspace until a drop zone appears.

• To remove a panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) its tab and then select Close, or deselect it from

the Window menu.

• To add a panel, select it from the Window menu and dock it wherever you want.

Manipulate panel groups

• To move a panel into a group, drag the panel’s tab to the highlighted drop zone in the group.

Adding a panel to a panel group

• To rearrange panels in a group, drag a panel’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To remove a panel from a group so that it floats freely, drag the panel by its tab outside the group.

• To move a group, drag the title bar (the area above the tabs).

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Stack floating panels

When you drag a panel out of its dock but not into a drop zone, the panel floats freely. The floating panel allows you to position it anywhere in the workspace. You can stack floating panels or panel groups so that they move as a unit when you drag the topmost title bar.

Free-floating stacked panels

• To stack floating panels, drag a panel by its tab to the drop zone at the bottom of another panel.

• To change the stacking order, drag a panel up or down by its tab.

Note: Be sure to release the tab over the narrow drop zone between panels, rather than the broad drop zone in a title bar.

• To remove a panel or panel group from the stack, so that it floats by itself, drag it out by its tab or title bar.

Resize panels

• To minimize or maximize a panel, panel group, or stack of panels, double-click a tab. You can also double-click the

tab area (the empty space next to the tabs).

• To resize a panel, drag any side of the panel. Some panels, such as the Color panel in Photoshop, cannot be resized

by dragging.

Collapse and expand panel icons

You can collapse panels to icons to reduce clutter on the workspace. In some cases, panels are collapsed to icons in the default workspace.

Panels collapsed to icons

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Panels expanded from icons

• To collapse or expand all panel icons in a column, click the double arrow at the top of the dock.

• To expand a single panel icon, click it.

• To resize panel icons so that you see only the icons (and not the labels), adjust the width of the dock until the text

disappears. To display the icon text again, make the dock wider.

• To collapse an expanded panel back to its icon, click its tab, its icon, or the double arrow in the panel’s title bar.

• To add a floating panel or panel group to an icon dock, drag it in by its tab or title bar. (Panels are automatically

collapsed to icons when added to an icon dock.)

• To move a panel icon (or panel icon group), drag the icon. You can drag panel icons up and down in the dock, into

other docks (where they appear in the panel style of that dock), or outside the dock (where they appear as floating icons).

Use panel menus

Access the panel menus using the icon on the upper-right corner of the panel.

Panel menu (Symbols panel)

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Set UI color

You can customize the interface to sport one of following available color options: Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light,

Light.

and

1 Do one the following:

• (Windows) Choose Edit > Preferences > User Interface.

• (Mac OS) Choose Illustrator > Preferences > User Interface.

2 Choose the desired interface color from the following Brightness options: Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light, and

Light.

Available UI color options

3 Choose a Canvas Color from the following options:

• Match User Interface Brightness Sets the color of the canvas to the selected brightness level.

• WhiteSets the color of the canvas to white.

Rename or duplicate a workspace

1 Choose Window > Workspace > Manage Workspaces.

2 Do any of the following, and then click OK:

• To rename a workspace, select it, and edit the text.

• To duplicate a workspace, select it, and click the New button.

For a video on customizing the workspace based on different workflows, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0032_en.

Save and switch workspaces

By saving the current size and position of panels as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if you move or close a panel. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

Save a custom workspace

1 Choose Window > Workspace > Save Workspace.

2 Type a name for the workspace.

Display or switch workspaces

Select a workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

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Delete a custom workspace

Choose Window > Workspace > Manage Workspaces, select the workspace, and then click the Delete icon.

Restore the default workspace

Select the Default or Essentials workspace from the workspace switcher in the application bar.

Create documents

Introduced in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 release

While creating a document in Illustrator, instead of beginning with a blank canvas, you can choose from a wide variety

templates, including templates from Adobe Stock. Templates include assets and illustrations that you can build on to

of complete your project. When you open a template in Illustrator, you can work with it just as you would work with other Illustrator document (.ai).

In addition to templates, you can also create a document by selecting one of the numerous presets available in Illustrator.

any

Templates and presets

Te mp l at es provide rich, inspirational, and reusable content for your documents. You can download templates from

Adobe Stock that include quality graphics and illustrations right within Illustrator. You can then build on these templates to easily create documents that share common settings and design elements. Illustrator also provides blank templates with predefined dimensions and settings for common tasks, such as designing business cards or brochures. Templates open as .ai files in Illustrator and generally include multiple artboards.

Blank Document Presets are blank documents with predefined dimensions and settings. Presets make designing for

modify these settings before creating a document using the preset.

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Templates and presets are categorized into these sets:

• Mobile

• We b

• Print

• Film & Video

• Art & Illustration

Access the New Document dialog

1 Launch Illustrator.

2 Do one of the following:

• Select File > New.

• Click New or Start New in the Start workspace.

• Use the following keyboard shortcut:

• (Mac) Cmd+N

• (Windows) Ctrl+N

• Right-click the tab for an open document and choose New Document from the in-context menu.

Overview: New Document dialog

Among other operations, the New Document dialog lets you:

• Create documents using selected templates from Adobe Stock across several categories: Mobile, Web, Print, Film &

Video, and Art & Illustration

• Search for more templates on Adobe Stock and create documents using them

• Quickly access files, templates, and items that you've have recently accessed (Recents tab)

• Quickly access templates that you've downloaded from Adobe Stock (Saved tab)

• Create documents using Blank Document presets for multiple categories and device form factors. Before opening

the presets, you can modify their settings.

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Mobile tab | New Document dialog box

Create documents using presets

1 In the New Document dialog box, click a category tab: Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, or Art & Illustration.

2 Select a preset.

3 Optionally, change the settings for the selected preset in the Preset Details pane on the right. See Modify presets to

understand how.

4 Click Create. Illustrator opens a new document based on the preset.

Modify presets

Before opening a document using the preset, you can modify its settings in the right pane.

1 Specify a name for the document.

2 Specify the following options for the selected preset:

Width and Height: Specify the size of the artboard. Select the unit from the pop-up menu.

Orientation: Specify a page orientation for the document: Landscape or Portrait

Artboard: Specify the number of artboards in the document

Bleed: Specify the position of the bleed along each side of the artboard. To use different values for different sides,

delink the dimensions by clicking the chain (

) icon.

Color Mode: Specify a color mode for the document: RGB or CMYK. Changing the color mode converts the default contents (swatches, brushes, symbols, graphic styles) of the

selected new document profile to a new color mode,

resulting in a color change.

3 Click More Settings to specify additional options:

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Raster Effects: Specify the resolution for raster effects in the document. It is especially important to set this at High when you plan to output to a high-end printer at high

Preview Mode: Set the default preview mode for the document:

resolution. The Print profile sets this at High by default.

• Default displays artwork created in the document in vector vie w with fu ll color. Zo om in/out ret ains smoot hness

curves.

in the

• Pixel displays artwork with a rasterized (pixelated) appearance. It does not actually rasterize the content, but

displays a simulated preview, as if the contents were rasters.

• Overprint provides an “ink preview” that approximates how blending, transparency, and overprinting will

appear in color-separated output.

Note: You can change the Preview Mode at any time using the Vie w menu.

4 Click Create Document to open a document with the preset settings.

Note: Options in the More Settings dialog are similar to options in the legacy New Document dialog in earlier versions of Illustrator. See

Files and templatesfor more information about those options.

Create documents using templates from Stock

Illustrator comes with a variety of templates from Adobe Stock, including templates for tablet illustrations, mobile illustrations, laptop illustrations, letterheads,

basic fonts or fonts that can be synced from Adobe Typekit. To create a document using a template, do one of the

use following:

1 In the New Document dialog, click a category tab: Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, or Art & Illustration.

2 Select a template.

3 Click See Preview to view a preview of the template. A preview is an image representation of a template that you can

review and decide if you want to license that template.

envelopes, business cards, and many more. Templates with font layers

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Preview the template before licensing it

4 Click Download.

for you to work on.

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Template licensing in progress

5 After the template has downloaded, click Open. While opening the template, if you're prompted to sync some fonts

from Typekit, click OK.

You can now work with the open document in Illustrator just as you would work with any other .ai document.

Note: Downloaded templates are added to a Creative Cloud library called Stock Templates. You can access this library in the Libraries panel.

Libraries panel | Stock Template library

Search for more templates from Adobe Stock

Aside from the preselected templates from Adobe Stock, you can search for and download numerous other such templates directly from within the New Document dialog.

• While work ing in th e New Doc ument dial og, enter a search str ing in the Fin d More Templates On Adob e Sto ck box.

Alternatively, simply click Go to browse the full selection of available templates.

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Explore and license templates on the Adobe Stock website

Create documents using blank templates

Blank templates make designing common deliverables, such as brochures, business cards, CD covers, and T-shirts, easier. Do the following to create a document using a blank template:

1 Select File > New From Template.

2 In the New From Template dialog, open the Blank Templates folder.

Note: Alternatively, you can open the Blank Templates folder directly from the New Document window. In the New Document dialog, click More Settings and then click Templates.

3 Select a template; for example, Gift Certificate Pouchette.ait. Click New. Illustrator creates a new document based

on the selected blank template. You can work with it just as you'd work with any other .ai document.

Use the legacy File New experience

If necessary, you may disable the latest New Document experience and revert to the experience that Illustrator provided by default in versions CC 2015.3 and earlier.

1 Select Edit > Preferences > General.

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2 Select Use Legacy File New Interface. Click OK.

Enable the legacy experience (not recommended)

Note: See Files and templatesfor more information about options in the legacy New Document dialog.

Properties panel

The Properties panel is available by default in the Essentials workspace. It is also available in Window > Prop e r ties.

The frequently used controls for each Properties panel area are displayed upfront. You can access additional controls either by clicking the ellipses in the lower-right corner of an area or clicking an underlined option.

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Properties panel

No selection

When no objects are selected in your document and the Selection tool is selected, the Properties panel displays controls related to the artboards, ruler,

grids, guides, snapping, and some commonly used preferences. In this state, the Properties panel displays quick action buttons that let you open the Document Setup and Preferences dialog boxes and enter the artboard editing mode.

Selected objects

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For any selection, the Properties panel displays two sets of controls:

• Transformation and appearance controls:Width, Height, Fill, Stroke, Opacity, etc

• Dynamic controls: Additional controls, depending on the contents of your selection, may become available. For

example, you can adjust the character and paragraph attributes of panel displays crop, mask, embed or unembed, and

Edit artwork using Image Tracecontrols.

text objects. For image objects, the Properties

Contextual options available in the Properties panel A View more options B Controls available for a text object C Controls available for a path D Controls available for a linked image

Artboards

Artboards help streamline your design process by giving you an area where you can lay out designs for different devices and screens. Artboards represent the regions that can contain printable or exportable artwork. While creating artboards, you can choose from a wide variety of preset sizes or define your own custom artboard size.

You can have 1 to 1000 artboards per document depending on the size of your artboards. You can specify the number of artboards for a document when you first create it, and you can add and remove artboards at any time while working in a document. You can create artboards in different sizes, resize them by using the Artboard tool and position them anywhere on the screen—even overlapping one another. Illustrator also provides options to set the orientation, reorder, and rearrange artboards using the Artboards panel, Properties panel, or the Control panel (when the Artboard tool is selected). You can specify custom names for an artboard. You can also set reference points for artboards in Illustrator.

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You can use artboards as crop areas for printing or exporting purposes. Multiple artboards are useful for creating various things such as multiple page PDFs, printed pages with different sizes or different elements, independent elements for websites, video storyboards, or individual items for animation in Adobe Animate or After Effects.

Create an artboard

1 Do any of the following:

• To create a custom artboard, select the Artboard tool , and drag in the document to define the shape, size,

and location.

• To use a preset artboard, double-click the Artboard tool, select a preset and specify other options in the Artboard

Options dialog box, and click OK. Drag the artboard to position it where you want.

• To duplicate an existing artboard, select the Artboard tool, click to select the artboard you want to duplicate, and

click the New Artboard button Alt-click as many times as you want. Or, using the Artboard tool, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (macOS) the artboard you want to duplicate.

• To duplicate an artboard with the contents, select the Artboard tool, click to select the Move/Copy Artwork With

Artboard ( drag.

If you want the artwork to contain a bleed, make sure that there’s enough artwork beyond the artboard bounds to accommodate the bleed.

) in the Properties panel or the Control panel, press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS), and then

in the Control panel or the Properties panel. To create multiple duplicates,

2 To commit the artboard and exit the artboard-editing mode, click a different tool in the Tools panel or click Esc.

See a video on using multiple artboards.

Artboard options

To open the Artboard Options dialog box, do one of the following:

• Double-click the Artboard tool

• Click the Artboard tool and then click the Artboard Options button in the Properties panel or the Control

panel.

• Choose Artboard Options from the flyout menu of the Artboards panel.

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In the Artboard Options dialog, specify the following options:

Name Specifies the name of the artboard.

Preset Specifies artboard dimensions. These presets set the video ruler pixel aspect ratio appropriately for the specified

output.

Width and Height Specifies the size of the artboard.

X: and Y: Position Specifies the position of the artboard according to Illustrator’s workspace rulers. To view these rulers,

choose View

Orientation Specifies portrait or landscape page orientation.

Constrain Proportions Keeps the aspect ratio of the artboard intact if you manually resize it.

Show Center Mark Displays a point in the center of the artboard.

Show Cross Hairs Displays cross lines through the center of each side of the artboard.

Show Video Safe Areas Displays guides that represent the areas that fall inside the viewable area of video. You want to

> Show Rulers.

keep all text and art that must be viewable to users inside the video safe areas.

Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio Specifies the pixel aspect ratio used for the video rulers.

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Fade Region Outside Artboard Displays the area outside the artboard a darker shade than the area inside the artboard

when the Artboard tool is active.

Update While Dragging Keeps the area outside the artboard darker as you drag to resize the artboard. If this is not

selected, the outside area displays in the same color as inside the artboard while resizing.

Artboards Indicates how many artboards exist.

Artboards panel overview

To access the Artboards panel, click Win do w > Artboards. You can do the following using the Artboards panel:

• Add, rearrange, and delete artboards

• Reorder and renumber artboards

• Select and navigate through multiple artboards

• Specify artboard options such as presets, artboard size, and relative artboard position

Artboards panel A Rearrange all artboards B Up Arrow C Down Arrow D Add new artboards E Delete artboards

See a video on using the Artboards panel.

Work with artboards

Add artboards

To add artboards, do any one of the following:

• Click the New Artboard icon in the Properties panel, Control panel, or Artboards panel.

• Select the New Artboard option from the flyout menu of the Artboards panel.

• Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (macOS) to duplicate an artboard.

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Select multiple artboards

1 Select the Artboard tool from the Tools panel.

2 Do one of the following:

• Press Control/ Command + A to select all the artboards in your document.

• Shift-click to select artboards.

• Shift-click the canvas and drag the cursor to select multiple artboards using a marquee.

Note: Marquee selection toggles the selection state of the artboard. Selected artboards are deselected when you drag the marquee.

Delete an artboard

1 Select the artboards you want to delete.

2 Do any one of the following:

• Click the Delete Artboard icon in the Properties panel, Control panel, or Artboards panel.

• Select the Delete option from the Artboards panel menu (flyout menu).

• Press Delete key.

View artboards and the canvas

Each artboard is bound by solid lines and represents the maximum printable area. To hide the artboard boundaries, choose View square window. The canvas represents a space on which you can create, edit, and store elements of artwork before moving them onto an artboard. Objects placed onto the canvas are visible onscreen, but they do not print.

To center an artboard and zoom it to fit the screen, click the artboard number in the status bar, at the bottom of the application window.

1 Select the Artboard tool from the Tools panel.

2 Do any of the following:

• Click an artboard to make it active. (Clicking in or drawing over an artboard using a different tool makes the

> Hide Artboards. The canvas is the area outside the artboard that extends to the edge of the 220-inches

Artboard tool active.) If artboards overlap, the artboard with the left edge closest to the click location becomes the active artboard.

View artboards A Active artboard B Inactive artboard

• To navigate between artboards, press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and click an arrow key.

• To view artboards and their contents as outlines, right-click and choose Outline from the context menu. To see

artwork again, right-click and choose Preview.

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Note: You can view the page boundaries in relation to an artboard by showing print tiling (View > Show Print Tiling). When print tiling is on, the printable and nonprintable areas are represented by a series of solid and dotted lines between the outermost edge of the window and the printable area of the page.

Edit artboards

You can create multiple artboards for your document, but only one can be active at a time. When you have multiple artboards defined, you can view them all by selecting the Artboard tool. Each artboard is numbered for easy reference. You can edit or delete an artboard at any time, and you can specify different artboards each time you print or export.

1 Select the artboards you want to edit.

2 Do any of the following:

• To resize the artboards, position the pointer on an edge or corner until the cursor changes to a double-sided

arrow, and then drag to adjust. Or, specify new Width and Height values in the Properties panel or the Control panel.

• To change the orientation of the artboards, click the Portrait or Landscape button in the Properties panel or the

Control panel.

• To rotate between artboards, press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and click an arrow key.

• To view artboards and their contents as outlines, right-click and choose Outline from the context menu. To see

artwork again, right-click and choose Preview.

Move an artboard

1 Select the artboards you want to move.

2 Do one of the following:

• To move the artboards and its contents, select the Move Artwork With Artboard options in the Properties panel

or click

in the Control panel, and then position the pointer in the artboard and drag.

• To move the artboards without its contents, click to deselect the Move Artwork With Artboard option in the

Properties panel or click

in the Control panel, and then position the pointer in the artboard and drag.

• Specify new X and Y values in the Properties panel or the Control panel.

Reorder artboards

In the Artboards panel, you can use the Up and Down Arrows at the bottom of the panel to reorder the artboards. However, reordering artboards in the Artboards panel, does not reorder the artboards in the work area.

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Rearrange artboards A Default order in the Artboards panel B Reordered artboards in the Artboards panel

Rearrange artboards

To fit all artboards in view, you can rearrange artboards using the Grid by Row, Grid by Column, Arrange by Row, and Arrange by Column options.

To rearrange artboards, do the following:

1 Select the Rearrange All Artboards option from the Properties panel or the flyout menu of the Artboards panel.

2 In the Rearrange All Artboards dialog box, choose any one layout from the following options:

Grid by Row Arranges multiple artboards in the specified number of rows. Specify the number of rows in the

Rows box. The default value creates the most square appearance possible with the specified number of artboards.

Grid by Column Arranges multiple artboards in the specified number of columns. Choose the number of

columns from the Columns menu. The default value creates the most square appearance possible with the specified number of artboards.

Arrange by Row Arranges all the artboards in a single row.

Arrange by Column Arranges all the artboards in a single column.

Change to Right-to-Left Layout/Change to Left-to-Right Layout Arranges the artboards from left to right or right to

left. By default, artboards are arranged from left to right. the Grid by Row and Grid Column options change to Right-to-Left Grid by Row and Right-to-Left Grid by Column.

3 Specify the spacing between the artboards. This setting applies to both horizontal and vertical spacing.

4 Select the Move Artwork with Artboard option to move the artwork whenever the artboards location changes.

Additionally, an artboard within an artboard is treated like a crop area and is moved along with the containing artboard.

If you select the Change to Right-to-Left Layout option,

Align and distribute artboards

You can align or distribute selected artboards along the axis you specify using the Properties panel, the Align panel, or the Control panel.

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To align or distribute artboards, do the following:

1 Select the artboards you want to align or distribute.

2 Do one of the following:

• In the Properties panel (Window > Properties), click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

• Click Align in the Control panel, and then click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

• Choose Window > Align, and then click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

• Choose Window > Properties, and then click the icon for the type of alignment or distribution you want.

Align artboards

Customize artboard names

Each artboard can now be given a custom name, when in artboard edit mode.

To assign a custom name to an artboard, do the following:

1 Select the Artboard Tool to edit the artboard.

2 Select the artboard and specify the artboard name in the Name box of the Artboard Control Panel or the Properties

panel.

Alternatively, you can provide a custom name in the Name field of the Artboard Options dialog box. To open the dialog box, click Artboard Options commit the new name for the chosen artboard.

Th e ne w ar tbo ard name app ear s on the up per-l eft sid e of the art boa rd. Th e cu stom n ame als o sh ows up in t he A rtb oar d Navigation field and drop-down next to document’s status area.

If you assign a custom name to artboards, these names are added as suffix to the filename while saving artboard-specific files to all formats.

in the Properties panel or the flyout menu of the Artboards Panel. Click OK to

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Enter a custom name for an artboard in the Properties panel.

Note: To return to the default name, clear the name of the artboard from the Name field in the Properties panel or the Control panel.

Set reference points for artboards (9-point referencing)

To set reference points for artboards, use the Artboard Options dialog box or the Artboard options in the Properties panel or the Control panel.

This option allows you to hinge a corner or center of an artboard while its size is being changed.

Display artboard rulers, center mark, cross hairs, or safe area

You can choose to display a center mark, cross hairs, video safe markers, and rulers around an artboard. Rulers are useful when you’re working with art intended for export to video. The numbers on the rulers reflect device-specific pixels, regardless of the measurement unit specified in preferences. The default Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (VPAR) for Illustrator is 1.0 (for square pixels)—this value changes according to the preset you choose either in the Artboard Options dialog box or the New Document dialog box.

If you’re using nonsquare pixels, the ruler provides for easier device-specific pixel calculations. For example, if you specify an artboard of 100 x100 Illustrator points, and you want to know the exact size in device-dependent pixels before exporting the file for use in an NTSC DV Widescreen, you can set the video ruler in Illustrator to use a video ruler pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 (for wide pixels) and the ruler reflects the change and displays the artboard as 83 x100 device pixels (100/1.2 = 83.333).

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Artboard with rulers

Display center mark, cross hairs, or video safe areas

The center mark, cross hairs, and video safe area are video properties that assist you in creating videos. To display these properties:

1 Double-click the Artboard tool in the Tools panel, or, with the Artboard tool active, click the Artboard Options

icon in the Properties panel or the Control panel.

2 In the Display section, select the options you’d like displayed in your artboards.

Note: You can also set or remove the center point by clicking the Show Center Mark icon in the Control panel.

Save, export, and print artboards

Save and export artboards

You can save and export artboards in different file formats. When you save or export artwork, Illustrator writes the artwork data to a file. The structure of the data depends on the file format that you select. For details, see

You can also export artwork in a variety of file formats for use outside Illustrator. These formats are called non-native formats because Illustrator won't be able to retrieve all the data if you reopen the file in Illustrator. For this reason, it is recommended that you save artwork in AI format until you have finished creating it, and then export the artwork to the desired format. For details, see

Export artwork.

Print artboards

All artboards in a document share the same media type format, such as Print. You can print each artboard individually, tiled, or combined into one page. If you save a multiple-artboard Illustrator document to a previous version of Illustrator, you can choose to save each artboard as a separate file, along with a master file that includes all artboards merged.

You can preview artboards from the print dialog box before printing them. The print settings you choose are applied to all the artboards you selected to print.

By default all artwork is cropped to an artboard and all artboards print as individual pages. Use the Range option in the Print dialog box to print specific pages, select Ignore Artboards and specify placement options to combine all art onto a single page or tile the artwork as desired.

Save artwork.

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In Illustrator, artboards in a document can automatically rotate to print to the chosen media size. Select the Auto-Rotate check box in the Print dialog box to set auto rotation for Illustrator documents. For a document created in Illustrator CC, Auto-Rotate is enabled by default.

For example, consider a document with both landscape (width is more than height) and portrait (height is more than wi dth ) me dia siz e. If y ou sel ect t he p aper s ize as p ort rai t in the Size o f th e Pr int di alo g box, t hen the lands cap e ar tboard s automatically rotate to portrait media when printing.

Note: If Auto-Rotate is selected, you cannot change the direction of the page.

For details, see Set up documents for printing.

To ols

Tools panel over view

To see the name of a tool, hover the

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Overview: Tools panel

Work with the Tools panel

View hidden tools

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View hidden tools in the Tools panel

View tool options

Move the Tools panel

You can move the Tools panel by dragging its title bar.

View the Tools panel in double-stack or single-column

Click the double-arrow on the title bar to toggle between the double-stack and single-column view of the Tools panel.

Hide the Tools panel

You can also show or hide the Tools panel by choosing Window > To ol s .

Tear off hidden tools into a separate panel

Drag the pointer over the arrow at the end of the hidden tools panel and release the mouse button.

Close a separate tools panel

Click the close button on the panel’s title bar. The tools return to the Tools panel.

Change drawing modes and screen modes using the Tools panel

Click the icons at the bottom of the Tools panel to change the drawing mode from Draw Normal ( ) to Draw Behind ( ) or Draw Inside ( ).

Additionally, you can also change the screen mode by clicking the Change Screen Mode icon ( ) at t he bottom of t he Tools panel and choosing the desired screen mode.

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