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February 2013

Contents

What's New ...................................................................................................................................................1

What's new in CS6..................................................................................................................................................................2 Improved User Interface..........................................................................................................................................................5 Using Image Trace | CS6........................................................................................................................................................8 Arabic and Hebrew type........................................................................................................................................................10 What's new in CS5 ................................................................................................................................................................15

Getting Started tutorials...............................................................................................................................18

Clipping masks......................................................................................................................................................................20 Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows.....................................................................................................................22 Editing paths..........................................................................................................................................................................25 Painting with fills and strokes.................................................................................................................................................31

Workspace...................................................................................................................................................38

Workspace basics..................................................................................................................................................................39 Customizing the workspace...................................................................................................................................................43 Tools......................................................................................................................................................................................49 Tool galleries.........................................................................................................................................................................51 Improved User Interface........................................................................................................................................................57 Slicing and cutting tool gallery...............................................................................................................................................60 Artboard overview..................................................................................................................................................................61 Files and templates................................................................................................................................................................63 Recovery, undo, and automation...........................................................................................................................................67 Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks...................................................................................................................................68 Setting preferences................................................................................................................................................................72 Using multiple artboards........................................................................................................................................................74 Viewing artwork.....................................................................................................................................................................79 Working with ConnectNow.....................................................................................................................................................82

Drawing........................................................................................................................................................83

Drawing basics......................................................................................................................................................................84 Drawing simple lines and shapes..........................................................................................................................................88 Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows.....................................................................................................................91 Drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool............................................................................................................................94 Editing paths........................................................................................................................................................................101 Adjust path segments..........................................................................................................................................................107 Using Live Trace | CS5 and earlier......................................................................................................................................110 Using Image Trace | CS6....................................................................................................................................................114 About Perspective Grid........................................................................................................................................................116 Perspective drawing............................................................................................................................................................118 Symbolism tools and symbol sets........................................................................................................................................130 Symbols...............................................................................................................................................................................134

Color..........................................................................................................................................................140

About color...........................................................................................................................................................................141 Selecting colors...................................................................................................................................................................146 Using and creating swatches...............................................................................................................................................149 Color groups (harmonies)....................................................................................................................................................155 Create color themes with Kuler............................................................................................................................................168 Adjusting colors...................................................................................................................................................................170

Painting......................................................................................................................................................174

About painting......................................................................................................................................................................175 Painting with fills and strokes...............................................................................................................................................176 Live Paint groups.................................................................................................................................................................183 Brushes................................................................................................................................................................................189 Transparency and blending modes.....................................................................................................................................199 Gradients.............................................................................................................................................................................205 Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview.........................................................................................................................206 Apply or edit a gradient........................................................................................................................................................208 Stroke an object...................................................................................................................................................................211 Meshes................................................................................................................................................................................214 Patterns...............................................................................................................................................................................217

Selecting and arranging objects................................................................................................................222

Selecting objects..................................................................................................................................................................223 Grouping and expanding objects.........................................................................................................................................230 Moving, aligning, and distributing objects............................................................................................................................232 Rotating and reflecting objects............................................................................................................................................236 Layers..................................................................................................................................................................................240 Locking, hiding, and deleting objects...................................................................................................................................244 Duplicating objects...............................................................................................................................................................246 Stacking objects...................................................................................................................................................................248

Reshaping objects.....................................................................................................................................250

Transforming objects...........................................................................................................................................................251 Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects.............................................................................................................................253 Reshape using envelopes...................................................................................................................................................257 Combining objects...............................................................................................................................................................259 Cutting and dividing objects.................................................................................................................................................265 Clipping masks....................................................................................................................................................................267 Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool | CS6, CS5.......................................................................................................269 Blending objects..................................................................................................................................................................271 Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool..............................................................................................................274 Creating 3D objects.............................................................................................................................................................276 Reshaping objects with effects............................................................................................................................................282

Importing, exporting, and saving................................................................................................................283

Adobe PDF options..............................................................................................................................................................284 Creating Adobe PDF files....................................................................................................................................................289 Exporting artwork.................................................................................................................................................................293 File information and metadata.............................................................................................................................................298 Importing Adobe PDF files...................................................................................................................................................299 Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files.............................................................................................................................300 Importing artwork files..........................................................................................................................................................302 Importing artwork from Photoshop.......................................................................................................................................306 Importing bitmap images.....................................................................................................................................................308 Saving artwork.....................................................................................................................................................................310

Type...........................................................................................................................................................315

Importing and exporting text................................................................................................................................................316 Creating text........................................................................................................................................................................318 Creating type on a path.......................................................................................................................................................325

Scaling and rotating type.....................................................................................................................................................329 Spelling and language dictionaries......................................................................................................................................330 Fonts....................................................................................................................................................................................332 Arabic and Hebrew type......................................................................................................................................................335 Character and paragraph styles..........................................................................................................................................340 Creating composite fonts.....................................................................................................................................................342 Formatting Asian characters................................................................................................................................................345 Formatting paragraphs........................................................................................................................................................352 Formatting type....................................................................................................................................................................356 Hyphenation and line breaks...............................................................................................................................................363 Line and character spacing..................................................................................................................................................365 Special characters...............................................................................................................................................................368 Tabs.....................................................................................................................................................................................371 Text and type.......................................................................................................................................................................374 Updating text from Illustrator 10...........................................................................................................................................375

Creating special effects.............................................................................................................................376

Appearance attributes..........................................................................................................................................................377 Working with effects.............................................................................................................................................................381 Summary of effects..............................................................................................................................................................384 Create a drop shadow.........................................................................................................................................................389 Drop shadows, glows, and feathering..................................................................................................................................390 Creating sketches and mosaics...........................................................................................................................................391 Graphic styles......................................................................................................................................................................393

Web graphics.............................................................................................................................................397

Best practices for creating web graphics.............................................................................................................................398 Slices and image maps........................................................................................................................................................401 SVG.....................................................................................................................................................................................405 Creating animations.............................................................................................................................................................408

Working with FXG......................................................................................................................................411

FXG format..........................................................................................................................................................................412

Printing.......................................................................................................................................................427

Setting up documents for printing........................................................................................................................................428 Change the page size and orientation.................................................................................................................................431 Printing color separations....................................................................................................................................................432 Printer's marks and bleeds ..................................................................................................................................................435 PostScript printing................................................................................................................................................................437 Printing with color management..........................................................................................................................................440 Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning.........................................................................................................................442 Overprinting.........................................................................................................................................................................443 Print presets.........................................................................................................................................................................445 Printing.................................................................................................................................................................................447 Printing and saving transparent artwork..............................................................................................................................448 Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends......................................................................................................................454 Trapping...............................................................................................................................................................................457

Automating tasks.......................................................................................................................................461

Automation with actions.......................................................................................................................................................462 Automation with scripts........................................................................................................................................................468 Data-driven graphics through templates and variables.......................................................................................................469

Graphs.......................................................................................................................................................473

Graphs.................................................................................................................................................................................474

Keyboard shortcuts....................................................................................................................................484

Customizing keyboard shortcuts..........................................................................................................................................485 Default keyboard shortcuts..................................................................................................................................................487

What's New

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What's new in CS6

Adobe Mercury Performance System Improved user interface Simplified Workflows

Patterns Gradient on a stroke Image Trace Gaussian Blur New or improved profiles and components

Adobe Mercury Performance System

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The Adobe Mercury Performance system is a combination of solutions that makes Illustrator faster, more responsive, and able to handle larger files.

64-bit native support Makes general processing faster on 64-bit Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Illustrator can now take advantage of RAM beyond 3 GB.

Handle larger files Concurrent handling of large files is less likely to cause errors, like out-of-memory exceptions. Complex tasks, such as creating package designs, large-format graphics, or cartography, are better handled.

Improved memory handling Reduces out-of-memory errors for operations such as rasterization, export, and working on several large files simultaneously.

For more information, view the video on the Mercury Performance System, by .

Improved user interface

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The user interface is more efficient, streamlined, and more configurable, to make working in Illustrator a more pleasing experience. For more information on the aspects of the user interface that have been improved, see Improved user interface.

Example of a user interface enhancement: Configurable brightness levels and corresponding canvas colors

Simplified Workflows

Patterns

Pattern creation and editing tasks have been simplified, so you can save hours of repetitive and tedious work.

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To create a pattern using existing artwork or from scratch, choose Object > Pattern > Make. The new pattern is added to the Swatches panel. To edit a pattern, double-click the pattern in the Swatches panel or select the object containing the pattern, and choose Object > Pattern > Edit Pattern. When you create or edit a pattern, you enter the pattern editing mode, similar to the symbol editing mode. You can use the Pattern Options panel to modify the settings of the pattern, and preview your modifications in real time. For more information, view the video on pattern creation and editing, by .

Pattern creation

Gradient on a stroke

The gradient on a stroke feature provides you with three types of gradients to apply to a stroke. You no longer have to expand a stroke to fill it, and then apply a gradient to it. Apply a gradient to a stroke using the Gradient panel (Window > Gradient):

Within: Behaves as if the stroke has been expanded to a filled object with a gradient Along: The gradient is applied along the length of the stroke. Across: The gradient is applied across the width of the stroke. For more information, view the video on applying gradients to a stroke, by .

Apply a gradient to a stroke

Image Trace

The workflow to vectorize a raster image now produces much cleaner tracings. The output has fewer paths and anchor points, and better color recognition than the Live Trace feature in previous versions. For more information on the new Image Trace workflow, read this article, or watch this video by .

Gaussian Blur

The new Gaussian Blur effect (Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur) is speedy and efficient. Select the Preview checkbox to view the Gaussian Blur applied to your artwork, in real time.

New or improved profiles and components

Use the improved profiles and additional component libraries to get a quick start on your art projects: A new profile named Devices has been introduced in the New Document dialog box (File > New). The new profile contains presets for the iPad, iPhone, Xoom, Fire, Nook, and Galaxy devices. The Web profile has a new default size (960px x 560px). 3

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