From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Next-generation text - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Next-generation text
Before Illustrator, Photoshop or any of its other applications, Adobe invented the PostScript printing language. And then the company started selling fonts to get designers hooked on PostScript. The first LaserWriter renderings of Times, Helvetica and Courier were Adobe products and now Adobe sells just about every font you've ever heard off. Yes, including Dom Casual. My point is that Adobe has historically seen text not as letters that make up words, but as character and ornament outlines that make up finished pieces of artwork and that's exactly how it works in Illustrator. Sure, you can create single lines of point text or full blocks of area text. You can flow text from one block to another even across artboards. You can apply a wide variety of formatting attributes and incrementally adjust everything from type size to baseline shift from the keyboard. You can replicate formatting attributes using paragraph styles which are all mechanical albeit essential Word management…
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Next-generation text1m 19s
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Making a margin guide5m 7s
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Offsetting flush-left text4m 47s
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Moving and duplicating guides6m 23s
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Placing and threading text6m 18s
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Selecting words and lines of text6m 35s
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Working with point text7m 10s
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Tips for previewing and assigning fonts4m 7s
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Incrementally adjusting type size5m 49s
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Leading a paragraph indent5m 6s
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Pair kerning and tracking7m 2s
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Laying down base formatting attributes4m 59s
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Hanging indent and paragraph spacing3m 52s
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Creating a paragraph style5m 8s
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Redefining paragraph styles6m 42s
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Using the Glyphs panel6m 41s
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Spell-checking text4m 24s
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The stuff Check Spelling doesn't catch3m 24s
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Copying and applying a graphic style4m 42s
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Selecting through text objects6m 59s
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Offset Path and Scribble effects5m 45s
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Updating a graphic style5m 43s
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Creating type on a path7m 26s
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Attaching type to a closed path6m 5s
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Adjusting baseline shift4m 18s
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Tracking and kerning border elements8m 21s
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Filling and duplicating a border3m 28s
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