Adobe Illustrator CS4 on Demand

17. Customizing the Way You Work

What You’ll Do

Set General Preferences

Change Selection & Anchor Preferences

Set Type Preferences

Change Units & Display Performance Preferences

Set Slices and Hyphenation Preferences

Select Plug-Ins

Select Scratch Disks

Set User Interface Preferences

Set File Handling & Clipboard Preferences

Work with Appearance of Black Preferences

Define Shortcut Keys

Use Drawing Tablets

Introduction

No description of Adobe Illustrator would be complete without that well-known, but little utilized area called Preferences. Illustrator preferences serve several purposes. They help customize the program to your particular designing style, and they help you utilize available computer resources ...