Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 6: Handling Graphics, Paths, Text, and Fonts

In This Chapter

Livening up your documents with graphics

Getting control of paths and strokes

Getting the scoop on text and font fundamentals

Creating a layout

Graphics, paths, text, and fonts are all integral parts of creating documents with Adobe Creative Suite. You must know how to handle each element in your documents and how to make these elements successfully work together. Discovering the different ways you can work with images, text, and drawings is the fun part!

Whether you’re designing websites or creating a brochure layout, you can use these elements on their own or together, and you’ll likely find out something new every time you work with them. A layout can include text, images, and drawings but sometimes includes more. If you’re creating documents for the web or creating PDF (Portable Document Format) files with multimedia elements, you may be working with sound, animation, and video alongside text, images, and illustrations.

Using Graphics in Your Documents

A graphic can be an image, a drawing, or a vector object. ...