Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 7. Working with Type

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Import text.

• Create columns of type.

• Change text attributes.

• Use and save styles.

• Sample type.

• Wrap type around a graphic.

• Reshape text with a warp.

• Create text on paths and shapes.

• Create type outlines.

This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk, and copy the Lesson07 folder onto it.

Text as a design element plays a major role in your illustrations. Like other objects, type can be painted, ...