Preferences

Document-Specific and Global

For Illustrator to run as smoothly as possible within your workflow, you will need to set up your preferences to your liking. Preferences on a Mac are under the Illustrator menu > Preferences. On a PC they are under the Edit Menu > Preferences.

VERY Important Note: I strongly recommend that you change the preferences with no document open because this will set the preferences for the application. Any preferences set with a document open will only be applied to that document.

At times, preferences may become damaged and may need to be reset to their default values. To restore preferences, press and hold Option+Command+Shift (Mac) or Alt+Control+Shift (PC) as you start Illustrator. The new preferences files ...

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