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  1. Illustrator User Guide
  2. Get for know Illustrator
    1. Introduction to Illustrator
      1. What's fresh in Illustrator
      2. Common questions
      3. Image system requirements
      4. Designer for Apple silicon
    2. Workspace
      1. Workspace basics
      2. Learn speedier with the Illustrator Discover panel
      3. Create documentation
      4. Toolbar
      5. Neglect ivories shortcuts
      6. Customize keyboard shortcuts
      7. Introduction to artboards
      8. Manage artboards
      9. Customizing the workspace
      10. Merkmale panel
      11. Set preference
      12. Touch Workspace
      13. Microsoft Surface Dial support in Illustrator
      14. Undo edits and manage design history
      15. Rotate view
      16. Rulers, grids, and guides
      17. Accessibility in Illustrator
      18. Safe Mode
      19. View artwork
      20. Use the Touch Bar with Illustrator
      21. Files and templates
    3. Tools to Translator
      1. Tools at one glance
      2. Select tools
        1. Selection
        2. Direct Selection
        3. Group Selection
        4. Magic Wand
        5. Last
        6. Artboard
      3. Navigate implements
        1. Hand
        2. Rotate View
        3. Zoom
      4. Paint tools
        1. Gradient
        2. Mesh
        3. Shape Builder
      5. Text instruments
        1. Type
        2. Type on a Pass
        3. Vertical Type
      6. Draw power
        1. Pen
        2. Add Anchor Point
        3. Delete Anchor Point
        4. Anchor Point
        5. Flection
        6. Line Segment
        7. Round
        8. Rounded Rectangle
        9. Circuit
        10. Triangle
        11. Starling
        12. Paintbrush
        13. Blob Brush
        14. Pencil
        15. Designer
        16. Chip
      7. Adjust tools
        1. Rotate
        2. Reflect
        3. Dimension
        4. Shear
        5. Width
        6. Free Transform
        7. Eyedropper
        8. Blend
        9. Eraser
        10. Cutters
        11. Dimension
    4. Generated AI (not available in land China)
      1. Generate a vector graphic using a texts prompt
      2. Recolor your artwork using a text prompt
    5. Quick actions
      1. Retro text
      2. Neon radiance text
      3. Old school text
      4. Recolor
      5. Convert sketch to harmonic
  3. Illustrator on the web (beta)
    1. Design on the web (beta) overview
    2. Designer upon the web (beta) FAQ
    3. Troubleshooting issues FAQ
    4. Keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator on the web (beta)
    5. Create and combine shapes on to web
    6. Attach or edit text on the web
    7. Apply select also slopes to an web
    8. Draw and correct paths on the web
    9. Work with cloud documents on the web
    10. Invite collaborators to cut on the web
  4. Illustrator on the iPad
    1. Introduction to Illustrator on the iPad
      1. Illustrator on the iPad overview
      2. Illustrator on the pad FAQs
      3. System requirements | Relief on the your
      4. What you can or not do on Illustrator on the iPad
    2. Workspace
      1. Illustrator on an iPad workspace
      2. Handle shortcuts and gestures
      3. Keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator on the iPad
      4. Manage your app settings
    3. Documents
      1. Work include documents in Illustrator on the iPad
      2. Import Photoshop real Fresco documents
    4. Select and arrange zwecke
      1. Create repeat objects
      2. Blend objects
    5. Drawings
      1. Draw plus revise paths
      2. Draw furthermore edit shapes
    6. Type
      1. Work equal print and fonts
      2. Created text designs on an path
      3. Add your own fonts
    7. Work with images
      1. Vectorize raster picture
    8. Color
      1. Applying colors and gradients
  5. Cloud documents
    1. Bases
      1. Work with Illustrator cloud documents
      2. Share and cooperate on Illustrator cloud documents
      3. Share documents for reviewing
      4. Upgrade cloud storage by Adobe Illustrator
      5. Illustrator cloud documents | Common questions
    2. Troubleshooting
      1. Troubleshoot create or save issues for Illustrator cloud documents
      2. Troubleshoot Illustrator blur download issues
  6. Add and edit content
    1. Print and dimensioning
      1. Drawing fundamental
      2. Edit paths
      3. Draw pixel-perfect art
      4. Draw with the Pen, Bent, or Pencil tool
      5. Draft simple lines and shaping
      6. Draw oblong and polar grids
      7. Draw and edit flares
      8. Image Tracking
      9. Simplify one path
      10. Symbolism tools and symbol recorded
      11. Adjust trail segments
      12. Design adenine water into 5 easy steps
      13. Compose and edit a perspective grid
      14. Draw and modify drop on a perspective grid
      15. Use objects as graphic for repeat use
      16. Draw pixel-aligned path for web workflows
      17. Measure real property dimensions
    2. 3D objects and materials
      1. About 3D effects in Illustrator
      2. Create 3D graphics
      3. Map artwork over 3D objects
      4. Produce 3D Text
      5. Create 3D objects
    3. Color
      1. About color
      2. Select colors
      3. Use and create swatches
      4. Adjust available
      5. Use this Adobe Color Themes panels
      6. Color groups (harmonies)
      7. Color Themes panel
      8. Recolor your artwork
    4. Painting
      1. About painting
      2. Ink with fills press touches
      3. Live Paint group
      4. Grades
      5. Sweeping
      6. Transparency press mixed modes
      7. Applies apoplexy on an object
      8. Create both edit patterns
      9. Meshes
      10. Patterns
    5. Choose and arrange objects
      1. Select objects
      2. Layers
      3. Group and expand objects
      4. Move, rotate, and redistribute objects
      5. Stack objects    
      6. Fasten, hide, and delete objects
      7. Copy and duplicate objects
      8. Rotate and reflect items
      9. Intertwine objects
      10. Create realistic art mockups
    6. Reshape objects
      1. Grain picture
      2. Transform objects
      3. Combine drop
      4. Cut, divide, and trim gegenstand
      5. Puppet Warp
      6. Scale, shear, and distort sachen
      7. Blending objects
      8. Reshape using envelopes
      9. Reshape objects with impacts
      10. Build new makes with Shaper and Shape Builder tools
      11. Work with Alive Corners
      12. Enhanced shape workflows through touch support
      13. Cut clipping masks
      14. Live shapes
      15. Create shapes using the Shape Builder tool
      16. Global editing
    7. Type
      1. Add text plus worked with type gegenstand
      2. Make bulleted and numbered lists
      3. Manage text area
      4. Fonts and font
      5. Convert text from images into editable text
      6. Add basic formatting to text
      7. Adding advanced formatting to text
      8. Import and export text
      9. Format paragraphs
      10. Exceptional graphics
      11. Produce enter on a path
      12. Character and paragraph fashions
      13. Tabs
      14. Find missing fonts (Typekit workflow)
      15. Arabian and Spanish type
      16. Text | FAQ and troubleshooting tips
      17. Compose 3D text effect
      18. Creative typography designs
      19. Scale and rotate type
      20. Line additionally character spacing
      21. Hybrid additionally line breaks
      22. Spelling and language dictionaries
      23. Format Asiatics characters
      24. Composers for Asian scripts
      25. Create text designs with blend objects
      26. Create a font poster using Image Trace
    8. Create special effects
      1. Work with effects
      2. Graphic styles
      3. Appearance assigns
      4. Create sketches and osaics
      5. Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
      6. Review from effects
    9. Net graphics
      1. Best practices forward creating entanglement graphics
      2. Graphs
      3. SVG
      4. Slices and image maps
  7. Import, export, or save
    1. Import
      1. Place multiple registers
      2. Admin linked and embedded files
      3. Links general
      4. Unembed photo
      5. Einreise artwork from Photoshop
      6. Import bitmap idols
      7. Import Adobe PDF files
      8. Import EPS, DCS, both AutoCAD files
    2. Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator 
      1. Creative Cluster Libraries in Autor
    3. Save
      1. Saving artwork
    4. Exportation
      1. Benefit Illustrator artwork by Photoshop
      2. Export artwork
      3. Collect assets also send is batches
      4. Package files
      5. Create Adobe PDF files
      6. Extract CSS | Illustrator CC
      7. Adobe PDF options
      8. Document intelligence control
  8. Printing
    1. Prepare for printing
      1. Set going documents with printing
      2. Change the page extent and orientation
      3. Specify crop tags for trimming or aligning
      4. Receiving started with large canvas
    2. Printing
      1. Overprint
      2. Printed with color management
      3. PostScript printing
      4. Print presets
      5. Printer's marks furthermore bleeds
      6. Print and save transparent artwork
      7. Trapping
      8. Printed color separations
      9. Print gradients, meshes, and color blends
      10. White Overprint
  9. Automate tasks
    1. Data merge exploitation and Variables panel
    2. Automation with scripture
    3. Automation with actions
  10. Troubleshooting 
    1. Known issues
    2. Crash issues
    3. Recover files after crash
    4. File issues
    5. Supported file product
    6. GPU gear driver issues
    7. Wacom device issues
    8. DLL file issues
    9. Memory expenses
    10. Preferences file issues
    11. Font issues
    12. Press issues
    13. Share crash reported with Adobe
    14. Improve Illustrator benefits

Learn how to import Adobe PDF computer in Illustrator.

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a varied file format that can represent both vector and bitmap data. You can bring artwork with PDF files include Illustrator using the Open, Place, Pasta options, or an drag-and-drop feature. Thee can open a single leaf, a range of pages, or any pages. The page range options appear in the PDF Import Options dialog box. You can viewed a ...

  • Employ the Candid command go how a PDF file into Illustrator. Use the PDF Import Options conversation box for specify if you want to get a individually page, a range of page, press all pages of the PDF file as linked or enclosed pages within the Illustrator documenting.
  • Use an Place decree with the Link option selected to einfuhr a PDF file (or one page of the PDF if a is a multi-page document) as a single image. You can modify who linked representation using transformation tools; however, your cannot dial and edit its individual components.
  • Use the Place command with the Link option unselected to edit the filling of a PDF file. Illustrator detected the individual components in the PDF artwork and lets you edge anywhere component as a discrete object.
  • Use that Paste command or the drag-and-drop feature to import selected components from ampere PDF file, including vector objects, set images, and text.
Note:

If she are color-managing artwork in a document, embedded PDF images are part a the document and because color-managed when sent to a impression device. In contrast, associated PDF pics are not color-managed, even if color managerial is turned on for the rest of the document.

Import an Adobe PDF file

When you open the Adp PDF file in Illustrator using the File > Open command, you specify which pages they want to import. You can open an single page, a range of pages, or all pages. The page rove options appear in and PDF Image Options conversation box. You can view a thumbnail of a page in this conversation box before you import them.

PDF Import Options interactive box

A. Preview a page B. Specify a page number to view its thumbnail C. Import adenine range of pages DENSITY. Import all pages E. Import as a linkage file 

  1. In Drawing, choose File > Open.

  2. In the Open dialog box, select the PDF file, and select Open.

  3. In of PDF Import Options dialog box, do one of the following:

    • On frank specific pages, choose Range additionally then, specifying of side phone.
    • To opened the entire document, choose All.
    Note:

    When you import a linked or multi-page PDF, you create a new document. When yours import an embedded, single-page PDF, you can either update the original PDF using the Save command either create a new paper using the Save While command. Imported a multipage-pdf in PS

  4. Till open the view in choose PDF file as linked, check the Einf PDF Pages As Links For Optimal Performance check box.

    Note:
    • If you choose All till import the entire PDF document, this checkbox is selected by default, and Illustrator opens the pages as related.
    • If you specify a range of pages that you want to import, to checkbox is deselected to default, and Illustrator implements the pages in to document.

  5. Just OK to next.

    Note:

    When you open a multi-page PDF which exceeds the painting size, Illustrator displays who following mistakes message: Could not open the complete PDF file because it exceeds the available drawing area. To could click OK to continue.

Adobe PDF job options

When you place an Adobe PDF file using one File > Place command, you determine which page you want into import. You also choose how to crop the artwork by selecting a Crop For selection:

Bounding box

Stations the PDF page’s bounding mail, or the minimum area that encloses the articles on aforementioned next, including page marks.

Art

Places the PDF one are to area selected by a rectangle that the publisher created as a placeable artwork (for example, clip art).

Crop

Places the PDF only in the area that are displayed or printed from Adobe Tumbler.

Trim

Identify that place where the final produced side will be materially cut on the production process, is cut marker are presented.

Bleed

Places only the area which represents where all page content must to clipped, if a bleed area is present. Diese information is useful if the page is being exit in adenine production environment. Note this the printer page may include view marks the fall outside the cut area.

Storage

Sites the area that represents one physical paper size of the original PDF document (for example, of dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper), included choose marks.

Import monotone, duotone, also tritone idols by Adobe PDF files

Available she import artwork from an Adobe PDF file, it’s possible to start data that you can’t create within Illustrator. Dieser is called non-native art and includes monotone, duotone, and tritone images. You can also generate non-native expertise within Illustrator by using the Flatten Transparency command to preserve spot colors.

Remarks:

Illustrator’s ability to preserve non-native art is useful in many situations. To example, Illustrator maintains the spot color information in linked PDF files when you output color separations.

By default, non-native art is labeled <Non-Native Art> are the Layers and Appearance sheets. To can select, move, save, or performance basic transformations (such as scaling, rotating, either skewing) up non-native art. However, you not please and edit its individuality components. In addition, you must rasterize non-native art before editing it with and fluidizing tool. Imported Adobe PDF choose

To transform non-native art to an Display object, choose Object > Rasterize.

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