Comments on: 5 Ways to Customize Adobe Illustrator

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:07:01 +0000

Is ther a way to edit the document sizes in a Document Profile?
For example in the Print Profile I’d like to ba able to add DL, A2, A1 and a few custom sizes and at the same time remove the one’s i never use such as Tabloid and Letter.

By: banhbaofs

banhbaofs — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:40:14 +0000

this tip seems helpful for those who is professional. It’s really useful

By: pastisan

pastisan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:45:01 +0000

Well, i’ve heard next :

make an action of your prefered script (you liked to see binded), attach a shortcut to that action. That should solve your problem… don’t know if it works in CS4.

Make sure to close illustrator and reboot afterwards…

By: surya

surya — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:42:28 +0000

your site is really a great help.
Can u ad some more topics how to collect fonts in a particular illustrator file.

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It’s Going to Be Brilliant: Adobe Illustrator CS4 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:42:41 +0000

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By: Vector Graphics

Vector Graphics — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:23:24 +0000

only useful stuff over here. Thank you so much

By: Tom Prager

Tom Prager — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:24:56 +0000

Glad you VectorNUTS like these. Anyone else got some favorite tips of their own?

To Fº and Kaet,
Yes, kuler is only in CS3, since it’s an implementation of the Color Groups feature which is (to me) the most exciting addition in CS3. I still haven’t even scratched the surface of its power. Hey Sean, how about a Color Groups tutorial?

To Rob,
Adobe’s online Video Workshop at http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_videotutorials offers tons of great video tutorials that’ll give beginners a solid foundation (pros can always learn more too). And there’s no shame in using the Help menu. I turn to it all the time.

To W1sh,
WOW! Thanks =oD

To Grant,
Duh. I must’ve been hitting Com+Sh+B by accident. I wonder why I would ever WANT to turn off those handles, but now that I know, maybe I’ll find a use for it?

To Chris,
I know, I wish you could assign Keyboard Shortcuts to the Script menu. Adobe, are you listening? For scripts that are standalone apps like Collect for Output, you could use Spark (http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php), a freeware I can’t live without. Tip: Export Spark’s hotkey library (Spark > File > Backup Spark Library) and include it in your thumbdrive toolkit for use on-the-road.

By: Melek

Melek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:14:53 +0000

i had no idea about the Kuler plugin! i use Kuler all the time for inspiration. Thanks so much for the tip!

By: kaet

kaet — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:19:15 +0000

KV3: Command/Control H only hides/shows the paths, not the bounding box from the V/black arrow tool. There is a default shortcut for hiding/showing the bounding box, though: Command/Control shift B. Or at least that’s the shortcut on CS2.

Thanks for that tip, though! The first time something like that happened, it was command H I had accidentally hit; I worked in outlines for a bit before I found how to turn the bloody things back on.

Kuler doesn’t seem to be part of my version of Illustrator either. Do you have to go somewhere to sign up for the feed, or is it just part of the newer version?

Thank you for the preferences-on-your-thumbdrive tip; I use preferences, but had never made the jump to think of taking them with me! Yay!

cheers~