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Chapter 1 ✦ Learning the Illustrator Interface
Quitting Illustrator
End your Illustrator session at any time by choosing File ➪ Quit (or Exit). This
action closes the current document (you’ll be prompted to save it if it hasn’t been
saved) and exits the application. Window users can also close Illustrator by right
clicking on the program’s task bar icon and choosing Close (or by pressing Alt + F4)
from the pop-up menu. Mac OS X users can click and hold (or Ô+click) on the
Illustrator icon in the dock and choose quit from the menu that appears.
For Mac OS X, the Quit menu is under the Illustrator menu.
Note
Who’s the Model on the Adobe Illustrator Box?
The woman that adorns the Adobe Illustrator box is Venus, goddess of love, from Sandro
Bottecelli’s Birth of Venus painting. A portion of the painting, shown in the following figure,
appears as the program is installed, when Illustrator launches, and in the Help ➪ About
Illustrator dialog box. It is also included at the top of the Toolbox in case you get lonely.
Sandro Bottecelli’s Birth of Venus
Venus has graced each and every Illustrator package since Illustrator 1, released back in
1987. With Illustrator 9 came the introduction of the first all-vector replication of Venus and
Illustrator 10’s version is even more realistic. Earlier versions of Illustrator included a raster
version of Venus. She’s the official Illustrator “mascot,” gracing not only boxes but user
guides, splash screens, and icons as well. A good-sized print of Bottecelli’s painting hangs in
a hallway in the middle of the Illustrator engineering team’s offices at Adobe Systems head-
quarters in San Jose, California. Bottecelli would be proud.
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