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Unit 2: Designing and Desktop Publishing Tools

present in the image or change the size of the object with respect to the other objects in the Notes
image. Illustrator is an ideal program to use for drawing illustrations and charts or creating
posters with drawings and a lot of different size lettering.
Create New Document
Go File>New Document to create your first document. Type in a Name for the document and click
Advanced to select RGB for Color Mode as we will be working for the screen. Click Ok after that.

Figure 2.2: New Document Dialog Box

Source: http://www.vectordiary.com/isd_post/2008/day02/new-document.gif

Illustrator Workspace

Below is the workspace and some common terms for calling it. If you are using the latest Adobe
Illustrator CS3, you will notice to new design for Floating Palette. The rest looks about the same.

Figure 2.3: Workspace in Illustrator

Source: http://www.vectordiary.com/isd_post/2008/day02/illustrator-interface.jpg

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