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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
You can apply graphic styles to objects, groups, and layers. When you apply a graphic style to a group or layer, every
object in the group or layer takes on the attributes of the graphic style. For example, assume you have a graphic style
that consists of 50% opacity. If you apply the graphic style to a layer, all objects in or added to that layer will appear
50% opaque. However, if you move an object out of the layer, the object’s appearance reverts to its previous opacity.
If you apply a graphic style to a group or layer, but the style’s fill color doesn’t appear in the artwork, drag the Fill
attribute above the Contents entry in the Appearance palette.
To apply a graphic style
1 Select an object or group (or target a layer in the Layers palette).
2 Select a style in the Control palette, the Graphic Styles palette, or a graphic style library.
You can also drag the graphic style onto an object in the document window. (The object does not have to be selected
first.)
Note: To preserve the color of type when applying a graphic style, deselect Override Character Color in the Graphic Styles
palette menu.
To work with graphic styles
In the Graphic Styles palette, you can select a graphic style and do any of the following:
• To duplicate a graphic style, choose Duplicate Graphic Style from the palette menu, or drag the graphic style onto
the New Style button.
The new graphic style appears at the bottom of the list in the Graphic Styles palette.
• To rename a graphic style, choose Graphic Style Options from the palette menu, rename the file, and then
click OK.
• To delete a graphic style, choose Delete Graphic Style from the palette menu and click Yes, or drag the style onto
the Delete icon.
Any objects, groups, or layers that used the graphic style retain the same appearance attributes; however, these
attributes are no longer associated with a graphic style.
• To create a new graphic style based on two or more existing graphic styles, Ctrl-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac OS) to select all the graphic styles you want to merge, and then choose Merge Graphic
Styles from the palette menu.
The new graphic style contains all the attributes of the selected graphic styles and is added to the end of the list of
graphic styles in the palette.
About graphic style libraries
Graphic style libraries are collections of preset graphic styles. To open a graphic style library, select it from the
Window > Graphic Style Libraries submenu or the Open Graphic Style Library submenu in the Graphic Styles
palette menu.
When you open a graphic style library, it appears in a new palette (not the Graphic Styles palette). You select, sort,
and view items in a graphic style library the same as you do in the Graphic Styles palette. However, you can’t add
items to, delete items from, or edit the items in graphic style libraries.
To automatically open a library when you start Illustrator, choose Persistent from the library’s palette menu.
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