Adobe Illustrator

Before You Begin

Before you start creating in Illustrator, there are some preference you may want to set to

ensure success with all you create. Setting your preferences before you open any documents will ensure that all the documents you create will have the same preferences. Many of the preferences you’ll set are specific to each document, but there’s no way to distinguish them from those that are globally applied to the application. The full discussion about customizing Illustrator can be found in the first chapter of the compendium, Preferences and Workspaces, but this first section will walk you through the basic customizations that you will likely want to set.

General

Let’s open the Preferences menu. On a Mac, use the Illustrator ...