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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................. 1
About This Book ..............................................................................................1
What You Don’t Need to Read .......................................................................2
Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized ..........................................................................3
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap .......................3
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork ......................................3
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School ...............................3
Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files..........................3
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................................................3
But that’s not all!: Bonus chapters ......................................................4
About All Those Little Icons ...........................................................................4
Road Signs along the Way ..............................................................................4
Where to Go from Here ...................................................................................5
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap ..... 7
Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Illustrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
From Humble Origins to Master of the Graphics Universe ........................9
A brief history of Illustrator................................................................10
Illustrator’s place in the cosmos .......................................................11
Starting Up Illustrator and Revving It a Little ............................................12
What’s in a Name ( eld)? ....................................................................14
Artboard options .................................................................................14
Page size, units, and orientation ........................................................14
CMYK or RGB? ......................................................................................15
Exploring the Illustrator Workspace ...........................................................19
Illustrator tool time .............................................................................19
Panels to suit any artist ......................................................................20
Menus with the  nest cuisine .............................................................22
Mac and Windows issues spring eternal ..........................................23
De ning the Document Area ........................................................................25
Opening Existing Documents .......................................................................26
Viewing Illustrator Documents ....................................................................27
Zooming in and out of artwork...........................................................28
Scrolling around your document .......................................................30
Looking at the guts of your artwork ..................................................30
Using Templates ............................................................................................31
Saving Illustrator Documents .......................................................................33
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