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Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator
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• Never to place the local copy of the file without displaying a dialog box and without
updating links.
To turn off workgroup functionality for this copy of Adobe Illustrator:
Choose Edit > Preferences > Workgroup (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator >
Preferences > Workgroup (Mac OS X), and deselect Enable Workgroup Functionality.
Adding metadata to documents
Metadata, or file information, is descriptive information that can be searched and
processed by a computer. Use it to provide information about the contents of a document
and to preserve information about a document that will be opened in other Adobe
applications.
You can add metadata to AI, PDF, or SVG file formats.
To add metadata to a document:
1 Choose File > File Info.
2 Select a category from the list on the left side of the dialog box, enter the desired
information, and click OK.
• General specifies information about the document, such as title, author, and
description. To specify copyright information, select Yes from the Copyrighted pop-up
menu. Then enter the copyright notice string and the URL of the person or company
who owns the copyright.
• Keywords specifies words that can be used to search for the document. To add a word
to the list, enter text in the Keyword text box and click Add. To edit or replace a word in
the list, select the word, change the text in the Keyword text box, and click
Replace.To delete a word from the list, select the word and click Delete.
• Summary specifies status information for the document, including its creation data,
modification data, and location. If the document is a managed file, the server location
and checkout status also appears. You cannot edit Summary metadata.