From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

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Basic appearance vs. complex appearance

Basic appearance vs. complex appearance - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

Basic appearance vs. complex appearance

Before we dive deeper into using appearances to create more complex artwork, it's important to realize that this concept of adding appearances to artwork first started appearing after Illustrator 9 was introduced. So anything previous to Illustrator 9-- meaning Illustrator 8, Illustrator 7, so on and so forth--could not support the ability to add multiple fills and multiple strokes to a single object. Of course, the key reason for that is that Illustrator's language, or Illustrator's ability to build artwork, was based in PostScript. However, when Illustrator 9 switched artwork to be based now in the PDF language, we had the ability to add appearances to our artwork, and add multiple attributes like multiple fills and strokes to a single object. Now, it's important to know this for two reasons: First of all, within Illustrator itself, we will see that there are certain features that allow to kind of beyond either side of that line--meaning stuff that worked just as well before…

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