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Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Organizing Your Drawing - Working with Groups

Creating groups is a way to organize the elements in a file. Most importantly, groups allow you to easily select or work with several objects that may belong to a single design element.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Organizing Your Drawing - Enhancing Appearances with Live Effects

Illustrator refers to effects as live effects. There are several reasons for this. First—and most important—any effect you apply from the Effect menu is added as an attribute in the Appearance panel. Second, all effects can be edited at any time, even after the file has been closed and reopened at another date.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Understanding Appearances (part 2) - Targeting Attributes, Applying Multiple Attributes

Objects that have a single fill and a single stroke are referred to as having a basic appearance. However, vector objects aren’t limited to just one fill and one stroke. In fact, a single object can contain as many fills or strokes that your creative mind craves. An object with more than just one fill or stroke is referred to as having a complex appearance.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Understanding Appearances (part 1) - Understanding Attributes and Stacking Order

When you print a file, you aren’t seeing the vector path; you’re seeing the appearance that was specified for that path. An example of an attribute might be a particular fill or stroke.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Round-trip editing with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

Using the Launch and Edit features of Flash Catalyst, you can modify artwork using the rich editing capabilities of Adobe Illustrator CS5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5. Open the artwork in Illustrator or Photoshop, make changes, and then return to Flash Catalyst.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Document and File Information

You must have a window from the drag-to application open when you start dragging for drag-and-drop to work between programs. If the window is hidden behind other windows, drag to the destination application's taskbar button, pause while the window is displayed, and then drop into the destination window.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Illustrator Documents - Using the Export Command, Placing Art

Adobe Illustrator allows you to export to several file formats. Most of the export formats are bitmap formats such as TIFF and JPEG. You can also export in PDF so that you can read Illustrator documents with Adobe Reader.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Layers - Flattening Layers & Locating Objects in the Layers Panel

The Flatten Artwork command allows you to flatten an entire document into one top-level layer with sublayers and groups nested within it. After you use the Flatten Artwork command, all objects remain editable and any appearances on layers are applied to all the objects in your document.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Layers - Moving Objects to a Layer

With the Collect in New Layer command, you can move all the selected layers in the Layers panel into a new layer. You can select top-level layers, sublayers, groups, or objects.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Illustrator Documents - Saving Files (part 2) - Saving as Illustrator EPS, Saving files as Adobe PDF & Saving files in SVG

You can save all the options under the Save Adobe PDF dialog box as presets by clicking Save Preset. This makes it easier for you to reuse the same settings in the future.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Illustrator Documents - Saving Files (part 1)

Saving an Illustrator file with the wrong options can dramatically affect whether you can place or open that file in other software as well as what features Illustrator includes with the file when Illustrator reopens it.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Illustrator Documents - Artboards

In Illustrator, the artboard defines the maximum drawing area that you can print. The artboard is useful as a guide to where objects on a page belong. The maximum printable size is 227 × 227 inches or 358 square feet.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Setting Up a New Document & Modifying the Setup of a Document

Document Setup no longer contains Artboard options. Instead, you need to either click Edit Artboards in the Document Setup dialog box or select the Artboard tool from the Tools panel.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Exporting to Flash Catalyst

Flash Catalyst lets you work efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create RIAs. Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience and then hand off the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integration with servers and services.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Importing Graphics - Importing Photoshop and Illustrator Files

You can import an Illustrator EPS or PDF using Illustrator CS4 or later. Open the file in Adobe Illustrator CS4 or later, save it as a CS4-compatible AI file, and then import into Flash as an AI file.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Importing Graphics - Setting Illustrator Import Preferences

Flash allows you to set preferences to customize the way you import Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files. You can specify general options to specify whether to use the import dialog box, import objects outside the Illustrator artboard or import hidden layers.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Importing Graphics - Understanding Vector and Bitmap Graphics

Vector graphics are comprised of anchor points connected to each other by lines and curves, called vectors. These anchor points and vectors describe the contour and surface of the graphic with some included information about color, alpha, and line width.