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Using Type as a Mask ..................................................................................272
Converting Type to Paths ...........................................................................274
Type Styles ...................................................................................................276
Chapter 15: Printing Your Masterpiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
Printing Quickly ...........................................................................................277
What You See Is Roughly What You Get ...................................................278
Setting Up Your Page to Print (You Hope) ...............................................279
Quick printing .....................................................................................279
Changing Artboard size .....................................................................280
Printing Mechanics ......................................................................................281
Printing composite proofs ................................................................282
Important printing options ...............................................................283
All about Way-Scary Separations ...............................................................283
Separations are not in color .............................................................285
Printing separations ..........................................................................285
Chapter 16: Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Bringing Files Into Illustrator .....................................................................288
Deciding whether to link or embed .................................................290
Managing links ....................................................................................291
Getting Files Out of Illustrator ...................................................................294
Working with Illustrator and Photoshop ..................................................296
Making life easy: Copy and paste, drag and drop ..........................296
Placing  les .........................................................................................298
Now opening in an application near you ........................................298
Exporting a graphic ...........................................................................299
Using Adobe Illustrator with Nearly Everything Else .............................301
Chapter 17: Putting Your Art on the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
From Illustrator to the Web ........................................................................305
Using Web colors only ......................................................................307
Working in Pixel Preview mode .......................................................308
Choosing a  le format .......................................................................309
So which  le format is best, already? ..............................................312
Creating Web-Speci c Pixel Graphics .......................................................313
Saving a graphic as a GIF  le ............................................................315
Saving a graphic as a JPEG  le .........................................................317
Saving a graphic as a PNG-8 or PNG-24  le .....................................319
Creating Web-Speci c Vector Graphics ....................................................319
Saving a graphic as a Flash  le .........................................................320
Saving a graphic as a SVG  le ...........................................................320
Slicing and Dicing Your Graphics ..............................................................321
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