Special Edition Using Adobe® Illustrator® 10

Chapter 5. Shape, Drawing, and Graph Tools

In This Chapter

• Illustrator’s Object Creation Tools

• The Basic Object Creation Tools

• The Complex Object Creation Tools

• Selection Tools and Commands

• Illustrator’s Select Menu

• Compound Shapes and the Pathfinder Palette

• Graphs in Illustrator

• Troubleshooting

If Illustrator offered only the Pen and Gradient tools and the Color palette, we would still be able to create the majority of the artwork we produce today. It would take a lot longer and would perhaps not be quite as precise. Thankfully, Illustrator offers a tremendous number of tools, palettes, and commands that make the creation process easier. Many of the capabilities we take for granted are simply shortcuts. The Rectangle tool, for example, does nothing more ...