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Illustrator CS4 For Dummies
Changing Your Mind ......................................................................................34
Printing Illustrator Documents ....................................................................34
Closing Documents and Quitting Illustrator ..............................................35
Chapter 2: Following the Righteous Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Whether Paths or Pixels Are Better ............................................................38
Paths: The ultimate  exibility in graphics ........................................39
Pixels: Detail and realism to spare ....................................................40
How Paths and Pixels Compare ...................................................................41
A comparison of path and pixel documents ....................................42
When to use paths and when to use pixels ......................................44
Paths and Printing .........................................................................................44
Which is faster — a square or a square? ..........................................45
Printing paths: The evolution of Bézier curves ...............................45
What’s my vector, Victor? ..................................................................46
Gray’s Anatomy of a Path .............................................................................46
In Illustrator, it’s polite to point .........................................................47
You can handle the truth ....................................................................47
Chapter 3: Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Picking Up Stuff and Moving It Around .......................................................51
Comparing the selection tools ...........................................................52
Moving and transforming objects ......................................................53
Distorting paths ...................................................................................55
Organizing objects ...............................................................................57
Using the “Hard” Stuff ...................................................................................59
Transparency .......................................................................................59
Blends ....................................................................................................60
Clipping masks .....................................................................................60
Compound paths and shapes .............................................................62
Flares .....................................................................................................64
Entering the Wide World of the Web ..........................................................66
Saving the World ............................................................................................67
Save ........................................................................................................68
Save As ..................................................................................................68
Save a Copy...........................................................................................69
Save for Web .........................................................................................69
Export ....................................................................................................69
Using Illustrator for What It Does Best .......................................................71
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork ................. 73
Chapter 4: Shaping Up, Basically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Creating Basic Shapes ...................................................................................76
Drawing rectangles and squares ........................................................76
Drawing ellipses and circles ...............................................................78
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