Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

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Index

requirements, xiii

workspace, 33

opacity, 243, 269, 336, 338

changing values, 248

Knockout Group option, 246–250

reducing, 225

Opacity blend mode, 260

opacity masks, 269

adding objects to, 252

applying, 255

black fill with no stroke, 254

blank, 258

exiting, 256

gradient, 258, 262

changing direction of gradient,

260

pasting items into, 256

Release Opacity Mask, 253

renaming masking path, 256

thumbnails, 256–257

turning on/off, 257

working with, 251–260

Open a File dialog box, 7

opening files, 7–10

open paths, 83, 223

OpenType fonts, 129–135

OpenType panel, 31

ordinals, 132, 134, 135

organizing your artwork, 10–15

Orientation options, 17

Outer Glow, 332

Outline, 45

outline mode

gradient mesh, 230

switching between preview mode

and, 237

switching to, 45

outlines, converting type to, 437

Outlines (Live Trace), 392

Outline Stroke, 140, 143, 177, 191

Output as Swatches check box, 405

Output to Swatches (Live Trace), 398

Overlap, 287, 289, 327

Overlay blend mode, 243, 265, 267

overprinting, 438, 444, 448, 463

P

Page Information, 442

paintbrush tool, 273

Palette setting (Live Trace), 398

panel icons, 9

panels, 9

collapsing, 32

hiding empty, 13

rearranging in workspace, 30–32

resizing, 32

text-editing, 31

toggling visibility, 32

Paragraph panel, 31, 118, 124, 130, 131

Parchment style, 337

Part of Workspace, 14

Paste in Back, 75

Paste in Front, 75, 254

Paste in Place, 241, 256

path elements, moving and cloning,

139–146

Pathfinder, 211

adding and subtracting shapes,

185–187

compound paths, 179, 184, 187, 188,

198, 201

compound paths versus compound

shapes, 179–181

compound shapes, 179, 182–184, 201

Crop operation, 180, 191, 193, 198,

201

Divide, 180, 188, 191, 193, 195, 200,

201

Exclude, 180, 191, 193, 197, 198, 200,

201

Expand button, 146

Intersect, 180, 191, 193, 197, 201

joining shapes into single filled

path, 146

Minus Back, 181, 186, 201

Minus Front, 181, 182, 184, 186, 201

Outline Stroke, 191

Shape mode, 201

splitting apart paths, 188

Unite, 181, 188–195, 197, 200, 201

Pathfinder panel, 31, 181–184

cropping from, 267

Path Fitting (Live Trace), 400, 406

path-of-the-blend, 216–219, 241

adjusting with convert point tool,

258

path outlines, static, 383

Path Overlap value, 337

paths

accidently deselecting, 91

anchor points (see anchor points)

Average, 49

black arrow tool versus white arrow

tool, 92

blending, 208

changing color, 210

changing curvature of, 217

cloning, 210

closed, 83

compound (see compound paths)

control handles (see control

handles)

converting type to path outlines,

292

copying and pasting, 150

cutting, separating, and closing,

101–106

deleting, 192

Divide, 188

drawing curved, 94

editing outlines, 235

endpoints and closed paths, 41

filling and stroking path

intersections dynamically,

413–419

filling with anchor points, 227

flattening of path’s curves, 97

invisible, 216

Join, 288

lines and shapes, 87

live effects, 94

locking and unlocking, 216, 220

moving, 210

moving path segments, 97

offsetting paths to simulate depth,

146–150

open, 83, 223

outlines created by Live Trace, 391

overlapping, 46

pen tool (see pen tool)

rearranging stacking of, 105

refining, 100

renaming, 254

scaling partially selected paths,

169–176

selecting, 210

sending path to back of stack, 105

splitting apart, 188

stacking, 208

transforming, 209

translucent, 213, 249

path type versus text brush, 300–301

path wigglers, 331, 333, 337, 349, 383

pattern rotation, 177

pattern swatch, 81

.pdf file format, 35