The Pen tool (P) draws straight and curved lines to createobjects. See.The Add Anchor Point tool (+) adds anchor points to paths.See.The Delete Anchor Point tool (-) deletes anchor points frompaths. See.The Convert Anchor Point tool (Shift+C) changes smooth pointsto corner points and vice versa. See.The Line Segment tool draws individual straight line segments.See.The Arc tool draws individual concave or convex curve segments.See.The Spiral tool draws clockwise and counterclockwise spirals.See.The Rectangular Grid tool draws rectangular grids. See.The Polar Grid tool draws circular chart grids. See.The Rectangle tool (M) draws squares and rectangles.See.The Rounded Rectangle tool draws squares and rectangles withrounded corners. See.The Ellipse tool (L) draws circles and ovals.
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See.The Polygon tool draws regular, multi-sided shapes. See.The Star tool draws stars. See.The Flare tool creates lens-flare or solar-flare-like effects.See.The Pencil tool (N) draws and edits freehand lines. See.The Smooth tool smooths Bezier paths. See.The Path Eraser tool erases paths and anchor points from theobject. See.The Perspective Grid allows creating and rendering artworkin perspective.
See.The Perspective Selection tool allows you to bring objects,text, and symbols in perspective, move objects in perspective, moveobjects in perpendicular to its current direction. The Type tool (T) creates individual type and type containersand lets you enter and edit type. See.The Area Type tool changes closed paths to type containersand lets you enter and edit type within them. See.The Type On A Path tool changes paths to type paths, and letsyou enter and edit type on them. See.The Vertical Type tool creates vertical type and verticaltype containers and lets you enter and edit vertical type.
See.The Vertical Area Type tool changes closed paths to verticaltype containers and lets you enter and edit type within them. See.The Vertical Type On A Path tool changes paths to verticaltype paths and lets you enter and edit type on them. The Paintbrush tool (B) draws freehand and calligraphiclines, as well as art, patterns, and bristle brush strokes on paths.See.The Mesh tool (U) creates and edits meshes and mesh envelopes.See.The Gradient tool (G) adjusts the beginning and endingpoints and angle of gradients within objects, or applies a gradientto objects. See.The Eyedropper tool (I) samples and applies color, type, andappearance attributes, including effects, from objects.
See.The Live Paint Bucket tool (K) paints faces and edges of LivePaint groups with the current paint attributes. See.The Live Paint Selection (Shift-L)tool selects faces and edgeswithin Live Paint groups. See.The Measure tool measures the distance between two points.See.The Blob Brush tool (Shift-B)draws paths that automaticallyexpand and merge calligraphic brush paths that share the same colorand are adjacent in stacking order.
The Rotate tool (R) rotates objects around a fixed point. See.The Reflect tool (O) flips objects over a fixed axis. See.The Scale tool (S) resizes objects around a fixed point. See.The Shear tool skews objects around a fixed point. See.The Reshape tool adjusts selected anchor points while keeping the overall detail of the path intact. See.The Free Transform tool (E) scales, rotates, or skews a selection.The Blend tool (W) creates a series of objects blended between the color and shape of multiple objects.
See.The Width tool (Shift+W) allows you to create a stroke with variable width. See.The Warp tool (Shift+R) molds objects with the movement of the cursor (like molding clay, for example).
See.The Twirl tool creates swirling distortions within an object. See.The Pucker tool deflates an object by moving control points towards the cursor. See.The Bloat tool inflates an object by moving control points away from the cursor. See.The Scallop tool adds random curved details to the outline of an object. See.The Crystallize tool adds random spiked details to the outline of an object.
See.The Wrinkle tool adds wrinkle-like details to the outline of an object. See.The Shape Builder tool merges simple shapes to create custom, complex shapes. See.The Puppet Warp tool lets you add, move, and rotate pins to seamlessly transform your artwork into different positions and stances. The Symbol Sprayer tool (Shift+S) places multiple symbol instancesas a set on the artboard. See.The Symbol Shifter tool moves symbol instances and changestacking order.
See.The Symbol Scruncher tool moves symbol instances closer togetheror farther apart. See.The Symbol Sizer tool resizes symbol instances. See.The Symbol Spinner tool rotates symbol instances.
See.The Symbol Stainer tool colorizes symbol instances. See.The Symbol Screener tool applies opacity to symbol instances.See.The Symbol Styler tool applies the selected style to symbolinstances. The Column Graph tool (J) creates graphs that compare valuesusing vertical columns.The Stacked Column Graph tool creates graphs that are similarto column graphs, but stacks the columns on top of one another,instead of side by side. This graph type is useful for showing therelationship of parts to the total.The Bar Graph tool creates graphs that are similar to columngraphs, but positions the bars horizontally instead of vertically.The Stacked Bar Graph tool creates graphs that are similarto stacked column graphs, but stacks the bars horizontally insteadof vertically.The Line Graph tool creates graphs that use points to representone or more sets of values, with a different line joining the pointsin each set. This type of graph is often used to show the trendof one or more subjects over a period of time.The Area Graph tool creates graphs that are similar to linegraphs, but emphasizes totals as well as changes in values.The Scatter Graph tool creates graphs that plot data pointsas paired sets of coordinates along the x and y axes.
Scatter graphsare useful for identifying patterns or trends in data. They alsocan indicate whether variables affect one another.The Pie Graph tool creates circular graphs whose wedges representthe relative percentages of the values compared.The Radar Graph tool creates graphs that compare sets of valuesat given points in time or in particular categories, and is displayedin a circular format.
This type of graph is also called a web graph.
Ifyour document or artwork contains transparency, to be output itusually needs to undergo a process called flattening.Flattening divides transparent artwork into vector-based areas andrasterized areas. As artwork becomes more complex (mixing images,vectors, type, spot colors, overprinting, and so on), so does the flatteningand its results.Flattening may be necessary when you print or when you save orexport to other formats that don’t support transparency. To retaintransparency without flattening when you create PDF files, saveyour file as Adobe PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5.0) or later.You can specify flattening settings and then save and apply themas transparency flattener presets. Transparent objects are flattenedaccording to the settings in the selected flattener preset. When you save an Illustratorfile in certain formats, the native transparency information isretained.
For example, when you save a file in Illustrator CS (orlater) EPS format, the file contains both native Illustrator dataand EPS data. When you reopen the file in Illustrator, the native(unflattened) data is read. When you place the file into anotherapplication, the EPS (flattened) data is read.When possible, keep your file in a format in which native transparencydata is retained, allowing you to make edits as necessary.Native transparency data is retained when you save to the followingformats.Print a file that contains transparency.Save a file that contains transparency in a legacy formatsuch as native Illustrator 8 and earlier, Illustrator 8 EPS andearlier, or PDF 1.3 format. (For the Illustrator and IllustratorEPS formats, you can choose to discard transparency rather thanflatten it.).Export a file that contains transparency to a vector formatthat does not understand transparency (such as EMF or WMF).Copyand paste transparent art from Illustrator into another applicationwith both the AICB and the Preserve Appearance options checked (inthe File Handling & Clipboard section of the Preferences dialogbox).Export in SWF (Flash) or use the Flatten Transparency commandwith the Preserve Alpha Transparency option selected.
This commandlets you preview how artwork will look when exported in SWF. Highlights objects and intersections of objects that willbe rasterized because there is no other way of representing themin PostScript or because they are more complex than the thresholdspecified by the Rasters/Vectors slider. For example, the intersectionof two transparent gradients will always be rasterized, even ifthe Rasters/Vectors value is 100. The All Rasterized Regionsoption also shows raster graphics (such as Photoshop files) involvedin transparency, and raster effects such as drop shadows and feathers.Note that this option takes longer to process than the others.
Rasterizes all objects, including images, vector artwork,text, and gradients, to the specified resolution. Acrobat and InDesign allowa maximum of 9600 pixels per inch (ppi) for line art, and 1200 ppifor gradient mesh. Illustrator allows a maximum of 9600 ppi forboth line art and gradient mesh. The resolution affects the precisionof intersections when flattened. Line Art and Text Resolution shouldgenerally be set to 600‑1200 to provide high-quality rasterization,especially on serif or small point sized type. Ensures that the boundaries between vector artwork and rasterizedartwork fall along object paths. This option reduces stitching artifactsthat result when part of an object is rasterized while another partof the object remains in vector form.
However, selecting this optionmay result in paths that are too complex for the printer to handle.note: Someprint drivers process raster and vector art differently, sometimes resultingin color stitching. You may be able to minimize stitching problemsby disabling some print-driver specific color-management settings.These settings vary with each printer, so see the documentationthat came with your printer for details. Generally preserves spot colors.
It also preserves overprintingfor objects that aren’t involved in transparency. Select this option whenprinting separations if the document contains spot colors and overprinted objects.Deselect this option when saving files for use in page-layout applications.With this option selected, overprinted areas that interact withtransparency are flattened, while overprinting in other areas ispreserved. The results are unpredictable when the file is outputfrom a page-layout application.
If you regularly print or export documents thatcontain transparency, you can automate the flattening process bysaving flattening settings in a transparency flattener preset.You can then apply these settings for print output as well as for savingand exporting files to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0) andEPS and PostScript formats. In addition, in Illustrator you canapply them when saving files to earlier versions of Illustratoror when copying to the clipboard; in Acrobat, you can also applythem when optimizing PDFs.These settings also control how flattening occurs when you exportto formats that don’t support transparency.You can choose a flattener preset in the Advanced panel of thePrint dialog box or of the format-specific dialog box that appearsafter the initial Export or Save As dialog box. You can create yourown flattener presets or choose from the default options providedwith the software.
The settings of each of these defaults are designedto match the quality and speed of the flattening with an appropriate resolutionfor rasterized transparent areas, depending on the document’s intendeduse.