Saving changes

In this movie I'll show you how to save a document to the native AI or Adobe Illustrator format.…Take a look at the name of the document up here in the Title tab, it says 8-page newsletter.ai…with an asterisk at the end of it.…That Asterisk indicates that we have unsaved changes.…You can update the file on disk in one or two ways.…Go to the of the File menu and choose to Save command, which will overwrite the existing file.…The thing is if you choose to Save command in the case of this specific file, you'll…see this warning message.…

And what it's telling you is that when you save to a legacy format, you to can lose stuff.…Basically, as you'll see shortly, Illustrator allows you to save to a lot of its older file…formats which is a very good thing if you want to share files with other people, such…as in the case of me sharing files with you.…Now this file happens to be saved in the CS4 format and that's because I want people who…have CS4 and later to be able to open this file.…I've made sure that every single file I give you is still compatible with the newest version…