Tag: Adobe Illustrator

More and more lately, Illustrator users are being asked to include passages, sometimes multiple pages of, text in documents. That textual content often comes from writers and editors using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and other applications that create Word files. In this tutorial clip, you’ll learn how to import to Illustrator CC text from Microsoft…

InDesign isn’t the only Adobe application used for paragraphs of text. Illustrator, too, can handle lots of text. It can put all that text into an Area Type object, and, when the text is too much for a single area, it can thread multiple Area Type objects, flowing text smoothly between different places on the…

Filling type with imagery is easy and can produce stunning type. In this tutorial clip you’ll learn how to put an image inside type and how to reposition that image within the type to get the perfect fit. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC Typography.

It seems like it should be simple—setting text above and below a circle, curving over the top and bottom, while still remaining upright and easily read. It seems like it should be simple, but it baffles many new and occasional Illustrator users. In this clip, you’ll learn how simple it REALLY is, once you know…

Working with older Illustrator documents—your own or others—could give you a scary-looking warning telling you that your document has Legacy Text. In this tutorial clip you’ll learn what Legacy Text is as well as how simple it is to be rid of it, bringing your ancient Illustrator documents into the modern age. Excerpted from Pariah…

For a variety of reasons you, or your I.T. department, might want to install fonts but limit their availability to only one or more Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Fonts would then be available to Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, or other Adobe applications, but not available for use in Microsoft Word or any non-Adobe application. In this…

Missing fonts is a common plague with inherited Adobe Illustrator documents. More common is the desire to replace typefaces or styles of fonts throughout a document without the tedious manual process of editing each type object. In this clip, you’ll see just how easy it is to replace any font—missing or just unwanted—throughout an entire…