Illustrator Cs5 Help

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Chapter 1: What’s New
What’s new in Illustrator CS5
Illustrator video tutorials
Chapter 2: Workspace
Workspace basics
Customizing the workspace
Tools
Tool galleries
Files and templates
Manage connections to Adobe online services
Working with ConnectNow
Using multiple artboards
Viewing artwork
Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks
Setting preferences
Recovery, undo, and automation
Creative Suite 5 content
Chapter 3: Drawing
Drawing basics
Drawing simple lines and shapes
Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows
Aligning symbols to pixel grid
Drawing with the Pencil tool
Draw with the Pencil tool
Drawing with the Pen tool
Editing paths
Perspective drawing
Precise perpendicular movement
Tracing artwork with Live Trace
Manually trace artwork using template layers
Symbols
Symbolism tools and symbol sets
Drawing flares
Chapter 4: Color
About color
Selecting colors
“Color Picker overview” on page121
Using and creating swatches
Working with color groups (harmonies)
Create a color group in the Color Guide panel
Kuler panel
Adjusting colors
Chapter 5: Painting
About painting
Painting with fills and strokes
Live Paint groups
Brushes
Transparency and blending modes
Gradients
Meshes
Patterns
Chapter 6: Selecting and arranging objects
Selecting objects
Grouping and expanding objects
Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
Pasting objects between layers
Rotating and reflecting objects
Using layers
Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
Stacking objects
Duplicating objects
Chapter 7: Reshaping objects
Transforming objects
“Transform panel overview” on page232
Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
Reshape using envelopes
“Envelope options” on page240
Combining objects
Cutting and dividing objects
Clipping masks
Blending objects
Reshaping objects with effects
Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool
Creating 3D objects
Set 3D rotation position options
Chapter 8: Importing, exporting, and saving
Importing files
Importing bitmap images
Importing Adobe PDF files
Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files
Importing artwork from Photoshop
Saving artwork
Exporting artwork
Creating Adobe PDF files
Adobe PDF options
File information and metadata
Chapter 9: Type
About type
Importing text
Creating text
Creating type on a path
Scaling and rotating type
Spelling and language dictionaries
Fonts
Formatting type
Line and character spacing
Special characters
Formatting paragraphs
Hyphenation and line breaks
Tabs
Character and paragraph styles
About character and paragraph styles
Exporting text
Formatting Asian characters
Creating composite fonts
Updating text from Illustrator 10
Chapter 10: Creating special effects
Appearance attributes
About appearance attributes
Working with effects
Summary of effects
Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
Creating sketches and mosaics
Graphic styles
Chapter 11: Web graphics
Best practices for creating web graphics
Slices and image maps
Creating animations
Chapter 12: Working with FXG
About FXG
Save an Illustrator file in FXG format
To save a file in FXG format in Illustrator:
Illustrator and Flash Catalyst workflow
FXG mapping of Illustrator objects and attributes
Chapter 13: Printing
Setting up documents for printing
Printing color separations
Printer’s marks and bleed
PostScript printing
Printing with color management
Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
Printing and saving transparent artwork
“Transparency Flattener options” on page432
Overprinting
Trapping
Print presets
Chapter 14: Automating tasks
Actions
Scripts
Data-driven graphics
About data-driven graphics
Chapter 15: Graphs
Creating graphs
Formatting graphs
Adding pictures and symbols to graphs
Chapter 16: Keyboard shortcuts
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Customize keyboard shortcuts
Default keyboard shortcuts

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