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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
To customize the Control palette
• To change the kinds of options that appear in the Control palette, select or deselect options in the Control palette
menu.
• To dock the palette at the bottom of the work area, choose Dock To Bottom from the Control palette menu.
• To convert the Control palette to a floating palette, drag the gripper bar away from its current position. To redock
the Control palette, drag the gripper bar to the top or bottom of the application window (Windows) or screen
(Mac OS).
Files and templates
About documents
A document is the space in which you create artwork. You can create new Illustrator documents from scratch or based
on a template.
Creating a document from scratch gives you a blank document with the default fill and stroke colors, graphic styles,
brushes, symbols, actions, viewing preferences, and other settings. You can customize the document defaults using
a startup file.
Creating a document from a template gives you a document with preset design elements and settings.
See also
“About startup files” on page 46
To create a new document
• To create a new document from scratch, choose File > New. Set document options, and click OK.
• To create a new document from a template, choose File > New From Template. Select a template, and click New.
See also
“About the artboard” on page 36
“About colors in digital graphics” on page 181
About templates
Temp lates let you create new documents that share common settings and design elements. For example, if you need
to design a series of business cards with a similar look and feel, you can create a template with the desired artboard
size, view settings (such as guides), and print options. The template can also contain symbols for common design
elements (such as logos) and specific sets of color swatches, brushes, and graphic styles.
Illustrator comes with a variety of templates, including templates for letterhead, business cards, envelopes, brochures,
labels, certificates, postcards, greeting cards, and websites.
When a template is selected via the New From Template command, Illustrator creates a new document with identical
content to the template, but leaves the original template file untouched.
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