Datasheet

Part I ✦ Illustrator Basics

Opening a new window

So now you’ve learned how to zoom and pan around the document window, so you

probably have many different sections of your artwork that you want to focus on.

Illustrator will let you create a number of windows for the current artwork using the

Window ➪ New Window option.

This option will create a new window that is the same size as the current window.

You can then zoom and pan within this new window while maintaining the previous

window. These windows can then be placed side by side to see the artwork from

two unique perspectives. Each new window will be given a different reference num-

ber that appears in the title bar.

Working in Outline mode

versus Preview mode

In the old days, everyone worked in Outline mode (previously called Artwork

mode). In Outline mode you see only the “guts” of the artwork — the paths without

the fills and strokes applied. To see what the illustration looked like with the fills

and strokes applied, you had to switch to Preview mode. Usually the preview was

not quite what you had in mind, but to make changes, you had to switch back to

Outline, and then to Preview again to check, and so forth. Many users of Illustrator

from that time refer to it as the golden age, with not a little trace of sarcasm.

Today, Illustrator 10 enables you to edit your work in both Outline and Preview

modes, each shown in Figure 1-16. You can print a document from either mode.

Saving the document while you are in Outline mode does not affect anything in the

document, but the next time you open it, it will display in Outline mode. The same

thing applies to Preview mode: Whatever mode you are in is saved with the artwork.

You cannot undo a Preview or Outline mode change (going from Preview to Outline,

for example). If you make a Preview or Outline mode change and then close your

document, Illustrator asks you if you want to save changes, which in this case

would refer only to the view change.

The current view mode is always displayed in the title bar next to the document

name.

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