BASICS 01 Flashcards by Guy Cruls

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clone path’s stroke thinner
than original?
remedy:

Transform panel fly-out menu

/ ‘Scale Strokes & Effects’

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move shape on the fly:

Space Bar

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the default end point style of a stroke is called a …

butt cap

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drag object to another layer

drag the blue square

on the layer

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change artboard spacing globally:

Object / Artboards / Rearrange

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what’s needed

to export to InDesign?

in the save dialog,

tick ‘Create pdf Compatible File’

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keyboard shortcuts dialog:

mash your fist + K

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to align a bunch of objects
to an artboard,
you need to first…?

make them into a group

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preview Rotate dynamically

Transform Panel:

rotate function

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fit all artboards in window:

Ctrl + Alt + ZERO

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cusp point - what is it?

a corner between
two curved segments

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paste in back:

Ctrl + B

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make guide into object:

Ctrl + Alt + 5

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where’s the

scissors tool

and what’s the shortcut?

nested under

eraser tool

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Stacking -

travel up and down:

Ctrl + Alt + [or]

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text size limit is:
What’s the workaround?

1296pts
Effect / Distort & Transform / Transform

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save profiles - where?

Documents and Settings...\New Document Profiles

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bounding box

Ctrl + Shift + B

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the Reflect Tool -
where is it?
keyboard shortcut?

nestled under the Rotate Tool
o

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‘Save ICC Profiles’ -
what does it do?

tells other apps
what colour space
you created your file in

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one inch = … picas?
No.of points in one pica?
one point = …. mm?

1 inch = 6 picas

one pica = 12 points

1pt = 0.35mm

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what is distributing objects?

spacing them apart,

equidistant from one another

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save all swatches used in doc:

Swatches fly-out /

Add Used Colors

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you can drag an object by an anchor point if…

…the bounding box is off

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED toggles cursor types

Caps lock

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED skewered frame? how to straighten it:

right-click / Transform / Reset Bounding Box

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED what is solid leading ?

Given two threaded lines of text, the tips of the descenders of the top line are coincident with the tips of the ascenders of the bottom line.

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED what's a nested tool?

in the toolbox, a tool subsumed under another - e.g. blob is under brush

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED rectangle

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED change screen mode:

F key

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED create separate layer when pasting object from doc to doc

in the layers panel's fly-out menu of the receiving document, tick 'Paste Remembers Layers'

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED rainbow ramp in color panel is called...

the spectrum ramp

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED paste in front:

Ctrl + F

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED what is aligning objects?

arranging them into even rows or columns

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED rotate

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED smart guides - toggle active / idle

Ctrl + U

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED max number of artboards in Ai

1000 (100 up to 2017)

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED hide object

Ctrl + 3

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED create cross ruler guides:

Ctrl + drag rulers' origin

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED constrained angles (default ones) counter-clockwise from horizontal:

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED paste on all artboards:

mash your fist + V

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED ungroup

Ctrl + Shift + G

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED toggle fill / stroke in toolbox:

Shift + X

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED set layer to wireframe mode:

Ctrl + Click visibility icon in left column of a layer

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED delete fill / delete stroke

/ Ctrl + /

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED Pantone libraries - find them:

Swatches Panel Libraries icon / Color Books

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED cycle through docs

Ctrl + Tab

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED send to back

Shift + Ctrl + [

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED Blob Brush Tool: where is it in the toolbox? + by default set to fill or stroke?

under the paintbrush set to stroke by default

# BASICS 01 - STRAIGHTENED what point size is commonly seen as a 'hairline'?

0.3pt