User manual ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10

[. . . ] Adobe Illustrator Help Using Help Using Help | Contents | Index Back 1 Using Help About online Help Adobe Systems, Inc. provides complete documentation in the Adobe PDF Help system. The Help system includes information on all the tools, commands, and features for both Windows and Mac OS. The PDF format is designed for easy navigation online, and support for third-party screen readers compatible with Windows. [. . . ] The point or patch is colored with the current fill color. Creating and working with patterns To create a pattern, you create artwork you want to use as a pattern and then drag the artwork to the Swatches palette or use the Edit > Define Pattern command. You can use paths, compound paths, or text with solid fills or no fill for a pattern, or you can design a pattern from scratch with any of the tools in the Adobe Illustrator program. (However, you cannot use patterns, gradients, blends, brushstrokes, meshes, bitmap images, graphs, placed files, or masks in a pattern. ) You can customize any pattern by resizing the pattern, moving or transforming it, or coloring its objects. Patterns intended for filling objects (fill patterns) differ in design and tiling from patterns intended to be applied to a path with the Brushes palette (brush patterns). For best results, use fill patterns to fill objects and brush patterns to outline objects. How patterns tile When designing patterns, it helps to understand how Adobe Illustrator tiles patterns: · Patterns tile from left to right from the ruler origin (by default, the bottom of the artwork) to the top of the artwork. Typically, only one tile makes up a fill pattern. Brush patterns can consist of up to five tiles--for the sides, outer corners, inner corners, and the beginning and end of the path. The additional corner tiles enable brush patterns to flow smoothly at corners. Fill patterns tile perpendicular to the x axis. In contrast, brush patterns tile perpendicular to the path (with the top of the pattern tile always facing outward). Also, corner tiles rotate 90 degrees clockwise each time the path changes direction. Fill and brush patterns also tile differently in relation to the pattern bounding box-- an unfilled and unstroked rectangle backmost in the artwork. For fill patterns, the bounding box acts as a mask; fill patterns tile only the artwork within the pattern's bounding box. In contrast, brush patterns tile artwork within the bounding box and protruding from or grouped with it. · · Using Help | Contents | Index Back 206 Adobe Illustrator Help Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns Using Help | Contents | Index Back 207 Constructing simple patterns and defining patterns To create a pattern, you create artwork that you want to use as a pattern tile and then drag it to the Swatches palette. To create a pattern: 1 Create artwork for the pattern following "Guidelines for constructing patterns" on page 207. 2 To make the pattern less complex so that it prints more rapidly, remove any unnecessary detail from the pattern artwork, and group objects that are painted with the same color so that they are adjacent in the stacking order. 3 Optionally, to control the spacing between pattern elements or to clip out portions of the pattern, draw a pattern bounding box (an unfilled rectangle) around the artwork you want to use as a pattern. Choose Object > Arrange > Send to Back to make the rectangle the backmost object. To use the rectangle as a bounding box for a brush or fill pattern, fill and stroke it with None. 4 Use the selection tool to select the artwork and bounding box (if any) that will make up the pattern tile. 5 Do one of the following: · · Choose Edit > Define Pattern, and enter a name in the New Swatch dialog box. Choose Window > Swatches (if necessary), and then drag the artwork to the Swatches palette. To name a pattern in the Swatches palette: 1 Double-click a pattern swatch. [. . . ] See masks cross hair 48 Crosshatch command 244 Crystallize command 245 crystallize tool 9, 125 current tool, displaying 17 Cursor Key option 103 cursors, precision 4, 48 curve handles. See direction points curves See also drawing adjusting 59 drawing 52, 54 smoothing 50 custom colors 167 converting to process colors 358 in gradients 201 tables of 314 custom startup files 168 Cut command 103 Cutout command 242 cutting with knife tool 149 with scissors tool 61, 89 with Slice command 149 See also Clipping Mask command dashed lines, creating 160 dashes, replacing in text 284 Data command 377 data-driven graphics, rendering with Batch command 369 decimal precision in graphs 380 default actions 373 De-Interlace command 247 Delete Brush command 82 Delete Empty Text Paths option 254 Delete Riders filter 342 Delete Style command 234 delete-anchor-point tool 6, 57 deleting actions 372 brush attributes 81 brushes 82 brushes from paths 81 empty text paths 254 objects 107 Density option (ink pen) 138 Deselect All command 100, 101 Deselect command 51 deselecting objects 101 designs, graph 391 device-independent color 174 dictionaries, changing 282 Difference mode 197 Diffuse Glow command 244 Direction Handles command 101 direction handles, selecting 101 direction lines 51, 54, 56, 58 direction points 51, 98 direct-lasso tool 98, 111 direct-select lasso tool 6 direct-selection tool 6, 97, 111 activating temporarily 58 adjusting paths with 56, 58, 59 Disable Auto Add/Delete option 57 discretionary hyphens, entering 280 Dispersion option (ink pen) 138 displaying documents 27 D Dark Strokes command 244 Darken mode 197 Dash and gap settings. See Stroke palette Using Help | Contents | Index Back 409 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 410 ABCDEFGH I JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ distance, measuring 12, 93 Distort filters and effects 126, 244 distorting objects 120, 126 Distribute Objects option 106 Distribute Spacing option 106 distributing objects 106 See also transforming objects dithering, browser 315 Divide & Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork option 141 Divide Slices command 297 Document Info command 344 Document Raster Effects Settings dialog box 239 Document Setup command 18, 29, 30, 333 Document Setup dialog box flattening settings 336 Show Images In Outline option 220 dots per inch (dpi) 27, 358 Download from Server command 43 Downloadables command 22 drag and drop 105, 159 drawing adjusting segments 56, 59 changing point types 58 with cross hair 48 mixing straight and curved segments 54 open and closed paths 48 with pen tool 50 with pencil tool 48 shapes 62 drawing objects arc segments 67 curved segments 52 ellipses and circles 63, 64 line segments 67 polygons 64 rectangles and squares 63, 64 rounded rectangles 63 spirals 68 stars 64 Drop Shadow command 130 Dry Brush command 242 Duplicate Brush command 82 Duplicate Slice command 298 Duplicate Style command 233 Duplicate Swatch command 162 duplicating brushes 81 objects 99 type 263 DWG file format 328 DXF file format 32, 328 E edges, feathering and softening 131 Edit Contents command 123 Edit Envelope command 123 Edit Original option 41 Edit Selected Paths option 50 Edit Selection command 102 Edit Views command 14 effects 228 Artistic 242 Blur 243 Brush Strokes 243 Distort 244 Outline Type 267 Pixelate 244 Sharpen 245 Sketch 245 Stylize 246 Texture 246 Video 247 effects, working with applying 235 changing objects and paths 126 compared to filters 239 editing 230 Layers palette and 223 removing 230 SVG and 301 Ellipse command 127 ellipse tool 7, 62, 63 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 410 Adobe Illustrator Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 411 ABCDEFGH I JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ellipses, drawing 63, 64 ellipsis (symbol), in text 284 em space, in text 260 Embed Image command 39 embedded objects 37 emulsion 361 en and em dashes, in text 284 endpoints joining 62 in open paths 47 engraved effects. See Pen and Ink filter Envelope Distort command 123 envelopes 122 creating 123 editing 123 expanding 124 Layers palette and 223 mesh and 123 options for 124 releasing 124 removing from objects 124 EPS file format 321 placing files 36 printing embedded 37 problems with spot colors and transparent artwork 155 EPSF Riders file 342 erase tool 8, 50 Error Handler option 343 Exclude command 147 Exclusion mode 197 Exit command 28 Expand Appearance command 81 Expand command converting fills and strokes to objects 214 converting to regular objects 214 creating mesh object from gradients 204 envelopes and 124 expanding complex objects 214 Expand Compound Shape command 145 Expand Stroke. [. . . ]