Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Setting up the document

You'll begin the lesson by setting the ruler units to inches, displaying a grid to use as a guideline for drawing, and closing the palettes that you won't use.

1.

Close all of the palettes by clicking their close boxes or by holding down Shift and pressing Tab once. For now, you won't need to use them. You can also hide or show the palettes by choosing their Window commands. If a palette is grouped with others, choosing the Window command hides or shows the group. (Pressing Shift+Tab switches between hiding and showing the palettes. Pressing Tab alone hides or shows the toolbox and palettes.)

2.

Choose View > Show Grid to display a grid that's useful for measuring, drawing, and aligning shapes. This grid won't print with ...