Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

14.

Quit Illustrator. You’ve come full circle. On the PC, choose

File→Exit; on the Mac, choose Illustrator→Quit Illustrator.

Quitting Illustrator not only closes the program but also saves

the changes you made to the color settings, keyboard shortcuts,

and preference settings.

Congratulations, you and I are now in sync. Just one more thing: If

you use a Macintosh computer, please read the next section. If you use

a PC, feel free to skip it and move along to the following one, “Struc-

ture and Organization.”

Reassigning the Mac OS X Shortcuts

Adobe intends for the function keys to display or hide common panels.

Meanwhile, pressing  and Option with the spacebar should access the

zoom tool. But in recent versions of OS X, these keys will tile or hide

windows according to Apple’s Exposé or will invoke search functions

via Apple’s Spotlight. To rectify these conflicts, do the following steps:

1. Open your OS X System Preferences. From the  menu, choose

System Preferences. Click the Keyboard & Mouse icon, and then

click the Keyboard Shortcuts button.

2.

Reset the Dashboard & Dock settings. In the left panel, click

Dashboard & Dock. In the right panel, click the F12 shortcut to

highlight it, as shown in Figure 11. Then press Control-F12 (which

appears as ^F12 in the window).

Figure 11.

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