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Part I Illustrator Basics
Handling Text with Underline and
Strikethrough
Although this final new feature isn’t likely to be a determining factor for anyone
contemplating an upgrade from a previous version of Illustrator, the ability to
underline or strikethrough text is a needed improvement. Illustrator CS2 is gener-
ally a bit faster at text handling than previous versions, but underlining and
strikethrough are the only visible text-related changes new to this version.
See Chapter 9 for more information about working with text and type in Illustrator
CS2.
Summary
Illustrator CS2 has some major changes and several minor ones compared to earlier
versions of the application. This chapter introduced several of the new features in
order to give you a bit of the flavor of the new version. You learned that:
Live Trace takes the place of the Auto Trace tool and provides far more power
to help you use raster images in your Illustrator documents.
Live Paint is a worthwhile upgrade to the old Paint Bucket tool that enables
paint effects to remain live while you work.
The Control palette provides a convenient place to find the most common set-
tings for selected objects so that you don’t always have to hunt down some
obscure palette to adjust a property.
Adobe Bridge is a standalone application that allows you to browse files in all
Adobe-supported formats and to change some of the metadata associated
with those files.
You can now work with Photoshop layer comps directly inside Illustrator CS2.
The workspace enhancements enable you to save and recall custom desktop
layouts for increased efficiency.
Spot color rasters are saved with your files for more accurate printing of spot
color separations.
SVG 1.1 support increases the accuracy of vector graphics you create in
Illustrator CS2 for use on the Web.
Offset paths allow you to place a stroke inside or outside a path in addition to
directly centered over the path.
Improved text handling features now include support for underlining and
strikethrough.
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