476
Index
Soft Light blend mode, 265
spacers, 140
Spacing (artboard), 16
specialty stroke, 273
Spectral Brooch style, 372
spirals
adding or subtracting winds, 43
changing decay rate, 43
changing length and size, 43
constraining, 43
drawing lines, arcs, and spirals,
41–44
joining arc to, 47
keyboard shortcuts, 43
moving, 43
reversing direction, 43
splitting, joining, and aligning,
44–50
spiral tool, 43
spline curves, 90–95, 107
round corners effect, 95
versus Bézier curves, 96
splitting, joining, and aligning, 44–50
spot color, 70, 430, 433
stacking order, 74, 75, 77, 148, 155, 171,
208
stacking paths, 208
stacking shapes, 74–82
stacks
dragging item to top, 53
sending path to back of stack, 105
stars, 56–59
eight-pointed, 57
star tool, 57–59
static path outlines, 383
steps, 205, 241
adding, 214
Blend Options command, 214–217
changing number of, 258
stops, 241
Stretch to Fit Stroke Length, 287
stroke
copying fill and stroke with
eyedropper tool, 220
restoring fill and stroke with
eyedropper tool, 223
stroke caps, 79
Stroke Options, 276, 280, 296, 301, 302,
327
Stroke panel, 78, 79
stroke profile, 80
Strokes check box (Live Trace), 400
stroking shapes, 74–82
styles (text), 111
Stylize commands, 332
.svg file format, 36
SVG Filters, 333
.svgx file format, 36
swashes, 133, 135
swatches, 66–73, 83
cleaning up, 70
Create New Swatch, 70
creating, 67, 70
dragging to fill objects, 72, 73
global swatch, 70
pattern swatch, 81
seeing which swatches are stored in
document, 69
small triangular icons, 70
two basic homes for, 69
Swatches panel, 30, 69–72, 81, 398, 401,
405–407, 409, 411
accessible, 72
making new color group, 420–423
swatch library menu, 69
Symbol Instance, 307, 308
Symbolism Tool Options dialog box,
323
symbolism tools, 317–326
symbol screener, 322
symbol scruncher, 322
symbol shifter, 322
symbol sizer, 322
Symbols panel, 30, 379
symbol spinner, 322
symbol sprayer, 274, 317–320, 327
symbols (see brushes and symbols)
symbol stainer, 322
symbol styler, 323
T
tablets, 275
tabular figures, 133
Template option, 89, 107
templates, 34, 35
tracing (see tracing templates)
text, 109–135
advanced formatting, 129–134
Antique Olive typeface, 115
applying formatting and effects,
117–122
area type, 110, 111, 118, 122–126, 129,
135
editing, 122–126
Area Type Options dialog box, 130
Arial, 114
art of type, 109–111
ascender, 135
baseline, 114–117, 120, 132, 133, 135
Benton Sans typeface, 115
bounding box, 111, 113, 116, 118, 123,
130
changing text color, 126
converting type to outlines, 437
creating 3D text and graphics,
372–382
discretionary ligatures, 132
displaying anchor points, 117
editing type attributes, 119
Every-line Composer, 131
font families, 115
formatting attributes, 111
lifting with eyedropper tool, 123
formatting shortcuts, 120
fractions in text, 132, 134
Franklin Gothic typeface, 114
Garamond Premiere typeface, 114
gauging type size, 114
Glyphs panel, 133, 134
Helvetica, 109, 114
importing, 113
increasing/decreasing size, 119
indents, removing, 118, 123
kerning, 135
Auto option, 124
changing, 124
Metrics option, 124
Optical option, 124
keyboard shortcut for editing, 117
Künstler Script typeface, 114
leading, 121, 135
editing, 123–124
lifting attributes with eyedropper
tool, 123
ligatures, 110, 132, 135
live effects, 125
look of type, 114–115
mechanics of type, 111
moving text blocks, 125
oldstyle versus lining figures, 132
OpenType fonts, 129–135
ordinals, 132, 134, 135
Paragraph panel, 118, 124, 130, 131
placing, entering, and editing,
112–117
point type, 110, 111, 114, 116–118, 135
versus area type, 118
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