Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Professor Shenbop is now ready to greet his students with his ap-

parently terrifying music quiz; the fi nal art is shown in Figure 4-41.

Note that these techniques work for any path, not only simple arcs—

you could just as easily wrap text around spirals or polygons. Now

that you’ve completed your break with the academic frog, it’s time

to return to the land of sock poetry for the fi nal exercise in this les-

son. Save or discard your fi le as you like.

Advanced Formatting, OpenType

Fonts, and Special Characters

In this last exercise, I’ll show you some advanced type formatting,

including area type options and the Adobe line composers, Open-

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Advanced Formatting, OpenType Fonts, and Special Characters

Type features, and a myriad of special characters and how to access

them. This time, you’ll be working on a full version of the “That

Sock” poem and focusing exclusively on advanced type features.

1.

Open the full poem artwork. Open the fi le Full poem.ai

located inside the Lesson 04 folder. The document

should look like that pictured in Figure 4-42.

2. Examine the document layers. Bring up the Layers panel by

pressing F7. This document has three layers: Background, Final

Text, and Raw Text. Final Text shows what the text should

look like at the end of this exercise; hide the Final Text layer

by clicking the

icon next to the layer name. Next, turn on

the Raw Text layer; we’ll be working with this text.

3.

Select the text frame. Using the black arrow tool, select the main

text frame by clicking a line of type. Note that the text block is

the same size as the artboard; the edges of the bounding box

have been snapped to the artboard. This ensures that the text

is aligned, but leaves no margin around the text—something

we can remedy in the next step.

4. Update the area type options. Choose Type➝Area Type Op-

tions to bring up the Area Type Options dialog box, shown in

Figure 4-43. This dialog box allows you to specify the size of

the text block, as well as the number of rows and columns—

but for now we’ll focus on the Offset options.

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First, make sure the Preview box is checked. Next,

change the Inset Spacing value to 30 pt. This brings

all the margins—top, left, right, and bottom—in by

30 points.

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Next, change the First Baseline pop-up value to x

Height, allowing the fi rst line to fl oat up slightly out-

side the margin and vertically align the rest of the text.

With each change, you’ll see your document update. After

you’ve made the changes, click OK to accept them. Your text

should now look like that in Figure 4-44 on the facing page.

5.

Justify all the lines of the type. That small change has

made a big difference, but the alignment of the type is

still all wrong. Bring up the Paragraph panel either from

the control panel or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T (-Option-

T), and select the last of the alignment icons, as shown in

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Lesson 4: Creating and Formatting Text