Operation Manual

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USING ILLUSTRATOR
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Last updated 11/8/2011
If you use styles to maintain consistent formatting, you should probably avoid overrides. If you’re formatting quick,
one-time-only text, these overrides pose no problem.
Delete character or paragraph styles
When you delete styles, the appearance of paragraphs tagged with the style doesn’t change, but their formatting is no
longer associated with a style.
1 Select the style name or names in the Character Styles panel or the Paragraph Styles panel.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Delete Character Style or Delete Paragraph Style from the panel menu.
• Click the Delete icon at the bottom of the panel.
• Drag the style to the Delete icon at the bottom of the panel.
To delete all unused styles, choose Select All Unused from the panel menu, and then click the Delete icon.
Load character and paragraph styles from another Illustrator document
1 In the Character Styles panel or the Paragraph Styles panel, do one of the following:
• Choose Load Character Styles or Load Paragraph Styles from the panel menu.
• Choose Load All Styles from the panel menu to load both character and paragraph styles.
2 Double-click the Illustrator document containing the styles you want to import.
Exporting text
Export text to a text file
1 Using a type tool, select the text you want to export.
2 Choose File > Export.
3 In the Export dialog box, select a location for the file and enter a filename.
4 Choose Text Format (TXT) as the file format.
5 Enter the name of the new text file in the name box, and click Save (Windows) or Export (Mac OS).
6 Choose a platform and encoding method, and click Export.
Tag text for export to Flash
You can export text from Illustrator to Adobe Flash in a variety of ways. You can export text as a static, dynamic, or
input text. Dynamic text also allows you to specify a URL for the site that will open when a user clicks the text. For
more information about dynamic and input text, see Flash Help.
Flash text can contain point text, area text, or text on a path; all text is converted to area text in SWF format. Bounding
boxes remain the same and any transformations applied to them are preserved in SWF format. Threaded text objects
are exported individually —if you want to tag and export all objects in a thread, make sure that you select and tag each
one. Overflow text is imported into Flash Player intact.