Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Restoring default preferences

The preferences file controls how palettes and command settings appear on your screen when you open the Adobe Illustrator program. Each time you quit Adobe Illustrator, the position of the palettes and certain command settings are recorded in the preferences file. If you want to restore the tools and palettes to their original default settings, you can delete the current Adobe Illustrator 10.0 preferences file. (Adobe Illustrator creates a preferences file if one doesn't already exist the next time you start the program and save a file.)

You must then restore the default preferences for Illustrator before you begin each lesson. This ensures that the tools and palettes function as described in this book. When you ...