| Basics |
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Overview of features
Illustrator's approach to drawing
Setting stroke and fill attributes
Printing documents
Basic geometrical shapes
Drawing straight paths
Drawing curved paths
The freehand tool
The autotrace tool
Selecting and arranging objects
Editing objects |
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| Text handling |
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Entering and editing text
Text labels and text boxes
Entering text along a path
Entering text within a path
Creating and editing text outlines |
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| Drawing techniques |
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Creating your own patterns
Measuring and constraining
Guide objects and crop marks
Hiding and locking objects
The transformation
tools
The use
of compound paths
The use of masking objects
The blend tool
Working with layers
Overview of Illustrator filters |
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| Setting object
attributes |
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Defining
colours
Saving colours as swatches
Spot and process colours
Setting stroke attributes
Adding arrows |
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Setting fill attributes
Creating gradients
Applying gradients |
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| Manipulating objects |
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Making selections
Saving selections
Moving objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning objects
Changing the stacking order
Grouping and ungrouping
Locking and hiding |
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| Graphs |
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Creating a graph
The graph types
Importing data |
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