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Chapter 1 ✦ Learning the Illustrator Interface

Instead of selecting a path by clicking it, you can select entire paths by clicking

the insides of those paths in a filled area. It becomes a little more difficult to

select certain points on paths, because the strokes on those paths are also visible.

Sometimes so much stuff appears on your screen in Preview mode that you don’t

know what to click. The option that enables you to select an entire path by clicking

in a filled area is called Area Select, which is activated by a checkbox (turned on by

default) in the General Preferences dialog box, which you can access by choosing

Edit ➪ Preferences ➪ General.

You can stop screen redraw by pressing Ô+Y [Ctrl+Y] at any time. This is useful

if you would like to make a small change and would have to wait too long for the

redraw. Of course, pressing Ô+Y [Ctrl+Y] dumps you into Outline mode, but the

redraw happens pretty much instantaneously.

Overprint Preview mode

When producing color separations, you can specify overprinting features using the

Attributes palette. When colors are overlapped, the top color typically covers or

knocks out the colors underneath. However, when you use the Overprint feature,

the ink for the top color is printed on top of the lower colors. This process is easier

and mostly cheaper for printers to produce, but it can affect the overall color of the

objects. To view the results of specifying an overprint, you can use the Overprint

Preview option by selecting the View ➪ Overprint Preview option.

You can learn more about overprinting in Chapter 6, “Working with Color,” and in

Chapter 16, “Understanding Printing, Separations, and Trapping.”

Pixel Preview mode

Illustrator 10 includes many features to help designers create graphics for Web

pages. Web page graphics are typically pixel-based images. To help designers view

their pixel-based images before saving them to a Web graphics format, Illustrator 10

includes a Pixel Preview mode.

You can find more information about creating Web graphics in Chapter 17, “Using

Illustrator to Generate Web Graphics.”

You can enable the Pixel Preview option using the View menu. This option is tog-

gled on or off every time it is selected. If it is enabled, a checkmark appears next to

the menu option. When the Pixel Preview option is enabled, the current document

is displayed as a raster image (see Figure 1-17).

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