Chapter Five. Creating Fills and Strokes
Illustrator CS2’s jack-of-all-trades Swatches palette allows you to apply any color, pattern, or gradient as an object fill. Those fills can be applied to closed paths (paths where the first anchor is also the last), or open paths (paths where the first and last anchors are different), or Live Paint regions. Several of the techniques in this chapter explain how to create, organize, and use swatches.
Stroke attributes define how the outline of an object (or the edges of a Live Paint region) display. Stroke attributes include color, thickness, and pattern (like normal or dashed lines).
The examples in this chapter provide a compressed, but pretty complete, introduction to defining and applying fills and strokes ...
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