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Question 1

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clone path’s stroke thinner
than original?
remedy:

Answer 1

Transform panel fly-out menu

/ ‘Scale Strokes & Effects’

Question 2

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move shape on the fly:

Answer 2

Space Bar

Question 3

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

Answer 3

butt cap

Question 4

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drag object to another layer

Answer 4

drag the blue square

on the layer

Question 5

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change artboard spacing globally:

Answer 5

Object / Artboards / Rearrange

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what’s needed

to export to InDesign?

Answer 6

in the save dialog,

tick ‘Create pdf Compatible File’

Question 7

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keyboard shortcuts dialog:

Answer 7

mash your fist + K

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

Answer 8

make them into a group

Question 9

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preview Rotate dynamically

Answer 9

Transform Panel:

rotate function

Question 10

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fit all artboards in window:

Answer 10

Ctrl + Alt + ZERO

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cusp point - what is it?

Answer 11

a corner between
two curved segments

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paste in back:

Answer 12

Ctrl + B

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make guide into object:

Answer 13

Ctrl + Alt + 5

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where’s the

scissors tool

and what’s the shortcut?

Answer 14

nested under

eraser tool

• C

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Stacking -

travel up and down:

Answer 15

Ctrl + Alt + [or]

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text size limit is:
What’s the workaround?

Answer 16

1296pts
Effect / Distort & Transform / Transform

Question 17

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save profiles - where?

Answer 17

Documents and Settings...\New Document Profiles

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bounding box

Answer 18

Ctrl + Shift + B

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the Reflect Tool -
where is it?
keyboard shortcut?

Answer 19

nestled under the Rotate Tool
o

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‘Save ICC Profiles’ -
what does it do?

Answer 20

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?

Answer 21

1 inch = 6 picas

one pica = 12 points

1pt = 0.35mm

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what is distributing objects?

Answer 22

spacing them apart,

equidistant from one another

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save all swatches used in doc:

Answer 23

Swatches fly-out /

Add Used Colors

Question 24

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you can drag an object by an anchor point if…

Answer 24

…the bounding box is off

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toggles cursor types

Answer 25

Caps lock

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skewered frame?
how to straighten it:

Answer 26

right-click /
Transform /
Reset Bounding Box

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what is solid leading ?

Answer 27

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.

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what’s a nested tool?

Answer 28

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

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rectangle

Answer 29

M

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change screen mode:

Answer 30

F key

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create separate layer when pasting object from doc to doc

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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rainbow ramp in

color panel is called…

Answer 32

the spectrum ramp

Question 33

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paste in front:

Answer 33

Ctrl + F

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what is aligning objects?

Answer 34

arranging them

into even rows or columns

Question 35

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rotate

Answer 35

R

Question 36

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smart guides -

toggle active / idle

Answer 36

Ctrl + U

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max number of artboards in Ai

Answer 37

1000
(100 up to 2017)

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hide object

Answer 38

Ctrl + 3

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create cross ruler guides:

Answer 39

Ctrl + drag rulers’ origin

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constrained angles (default ones)

counter-clockwise from horizontal:

Answer 40

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paste on all artboards:

Answer 41

mash your fist + V

Question 42

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ungroup

Answer 42

Ctrl + Shift + G

Question 43

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toggle fill / stroke in toolbox:

Answer 43

Shift + X

Question 44

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set layer to wireframe mode:

Answer 44

Ctrl + Click visibility icon
in left column of a layer

Question 45

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delete fill / delete stroke

Answer 45

/
Ctrl + /

Question 46

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Pantone libraries -

find them:

Answer 46

Swatches Panel Libraries icon /

Color Books

Question 47

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cycle through docs

Answer 47

Ctrl + Tab

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send to back

Answer 48

Shift + Ctrl + [

Question 49

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Blob Brush Tool:
where is it in the toolbox?
+ by default set to fill or stroke?

Answer 49

under the paintbrush

set to stroke by default

Question 50

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what point size is commonly
seen as a ‘hairline’?

Answer 50

0.3pt