Add a layer mask icon to automatically hide the content of the layer or active selection. Reverse direction for Bloat, Pucker, and Push Left tools. Continually sample the distortion. Alt-drag in preview with Reconstruct tool, Displace, Amplitwist, or Affine mode selected. Option-drag in preview with Reconstruct tool, Displace, Amplitwist, or Affine mode selected. Cycle through controls on right from top. Cycle through controls on right from bottom. Increase brush size Brush, Stamp tools.
Decrease brush size Brush, Stamp tools. Increase brush hardness Brush, Stamp tools. Decrease brush hardness Brush, Stamp tools. Create a floating selection from the current selection. Fill a selection with image under the pointer. Create a duplicate of the selection as a floating selection. Select a plane under another selected plane. Delete last node while creating plane. Make a full canvas plane, square to the camera. Double-click the Create Plane tool. Parametric Curve Targeted Adjustment tool.
Saturation Targeted Adjustment tool. Luminance Targeted Adjustment tool. Grayscale Mix Targeted Adjustment tool.
Last-used Targeted Adjustment tool. Toggle Auto Mask for Adjustment Brush tool. Toggle Show Mask for Adjustment Brush tool. Toggle pins for Adjustment Brush tool. Does not work if Crop tool is active. Select multiple points in Curves panel. Click the first point; Shift-click additional points. Add point to curve in Curves panel. Move selected point in Curves panel 1 unit. Move selected point in Curves panel 10 units.
Open selected images in Camera Raw dialog box from Bridge. Open selected images from Bridge bypassing Camera Raw dialog box. Display highlights that will be clipped in Preview. Alt-drag Exposure, Recovery, or Black sliders. Option-drag Exposure, Recovery, or Black sliders. Filmstrip mode Add 1 - 5 star rating.
Filmstrip mode Add yellow label. Filmstrip mode Add purple label. Deletes Adobe Camera Raw preferences. Select the previous point on the curve.
Select multiple points on the curve. Display highlights and shadows that will be clipped. Set a point to the composite curve. Set a point to the channel curves. Switch from Magnetic Lasso tool to Lasso tool. Switch from Magnetic Lasso tool to polygonal Lasso tool. Move layer 1 pixel when nothing selected on layer. Convert between horizontal and vertical guide. Select foreground color from color picker.
Select foreground color from image with Eyedropper tool. Sets opacity, tolerance, strength, or exposure for painting mode. Mixer Brush changes Wet and Mix to zero. Fill with foreground or background color. Connects points with a straight line. Set blending mode to Threshold for bitmap images, Normal for all other images. Control-drag type when Type layer is selected. Command-drag type when Type layer is selected. Select characters from insertion point to mouse click point. Create a new text layer, when a text layer is selected in the Layers panel.
Select a word, line, paragraph, or story. Double-click, triple-click, quadruple-click, or quintuple-click. Scale text within a bounding box when resizing the bounding box. Control-drag a bounding box handle. Command-drag a bounding box handle. Move text box while creating text box. Justify paragraph, left aligns last line. Decrease or increase type size of selected text 2 points or pixels. Decrease or increase leading 2 points or pixels.
Decrease or increase baseline shift 2 points or pixels. Tip : Before you work on a shared file, create a local copy if possible. File is already open or locked in use by another user. Close the file from other applications or user profiles. File is password protected or invalid login or password for the file. Ensure that correct sign-in credentials are provided.
File is placed on a network and the network location is not reachable. Check the network connectivity and try accessing the file again. You cannot open a file if it is already open in another version of Illustrator. Close the file that is open in another version of Illustrator. If you are unable to close the file, force close all versions of Illustrator or restart your computer. If you're facing this issue when saving a file, try changing the filename and location.
For more on fixing issues with saving files, see Troubleshoot issues with saving files. Input and output device issues.
File location. Removable devices USB stick, external drive, pen drive, and so on. Device is not removed or ejected safely from the computer. Network location. Network connectivity is lost. Check your network connection. Shared location. Shared file is no longer available.
Ensure that the shared location is accessible. When you relaunch Illustrator, you get an auto-recovered version of the file: The auto-recovered file may have some contents missing or changed. The auto-recovery process does not change your original file because it runs on a copy of the file. Try these recovery steps. Perform the following steps to recover the affected.
Save the file as a PDF. This set of options uses compression and downsampling to keep the file size down, but also embeds subsets of all allowed fonts used in the file, converts all colors to sRGB, and prints to a medium resolution.
Note that Windows font subsets are not embedded by default. PDF files created with this settings file can be opened in Acrobat 5. If this is the case, you or your service provider can create custom presets. To create a new preset, click New. If you want to base the new preset on an existing preset, select the preset first.
To edit an existing custom preset, select the preset and click Edit. You cannot edit the default presets. Specify a location and click Save. If you want to share your presets with a colleague, select one or more presets and click Export. The presets are saved to a separate. Illustrator comes with supplementary PDF presets.
You may also receive custom PDF presets files from service providers and colleagues. Click Import, and select the. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Adobe Illustrator Features What's New. Buy now.
User Guide Cancel. About Adobe PDF. Common problem. Adobe PDF solution. Recipients can't open files because they don't have the applications used to create the files.
Anyone, anywhere can open a PDF. All you need is the free Adobe Reader software. Documents appear incorrectly on handheld devices. Documents with complex formatting are not accessible to visually impaired readers. Create Adobe PDF files.
Create an Adobe PDF. Type a filename, and choose a location for the file. PDF as the file format, and click Save.
Click Save PDF. Create a multiple-page Adobe PDF. Create multiple artboards in a document. Do one of the following:.
J Artboard. H Zoom. Z Toggle Fill and Stroke. X Default Fill and Stroke. D Swap Fill and Stroke. File Info. Find and Replace. Find Next. Check Spelling. Edit Colors. Convert to CMYK. Convert to RGB. Edit Original. Color Settings. Reset Bounding Box. Expand Appearance. Add Anchor Points. Remove Anchor Points. Divide Objects Below. Split Into Grid. Clean Up. Make with Warp. Edit Contents. Other Object Lock Others. Command-click New Swatch button.
Create new global process color. Replace swatch with another. Alt-drag a swatch over another. Option-drag a swatch over another. Transform panel. Apply a value and keep focus in edit field. Apply a value and copy object. Apply a value and scale option proportionately for width or height. Transparency panel.
Apply last effect to the selected object. Apply last effect to the selected object by adjusting the values in the effects dialog box. Change mask to grayscale image for editing. Alt-click on mask thumbnail. Option-click on mask thumbnail.
Disable opacity mask. Shift-click on mask thumbnail. Re-enable opacity mask. Shift-click on disabled mask thumbnail. Function keys. Export keyboard shortcut list as a text document.
Navigate to the desired location to save the text file. Click Save. Sign in to your account. Sign in. Quick links View all your plans Manage your plans. Switch to Smooth tool while using Blob Brush tool.
Switch to Hand tool when not in text-edit mode. Switch to Zoom tool in magnify mode. Switch to Zoom tool in reduce mode. Move Zoom marquee while dragging with the Zoom tool. Convert between horizontal and vertical guide. Paste in place on the active artboard. Create artboard inside another artboard. Select multiple artboards in the Artboards panel.
Navigate to previous document group. Switch between Direct Selection tool and Group Selection tool. Subtract from selection with Magic Wand tool. Subtract from selection with Lasso tool. Change pointer to cross hair for Lasso tool. Select artwork in active artboard. Create crop marks around selected object. Draw from the center of a shape except for polygons, stars, and flares. Increase or decrease polygon sides, star points, arc angle, spiral winds, or flare rays.
Start dragging, then press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow. Keep the inner radius of a star constant. Start dragging, then hold down Ctrl. Start dragging, then hold down Command. Keep the sides of a star straight. Switch between an open and closed arc. Flip an arc, keeping the reference point constant. Start dragging, then hold down SF. Add or subtract winds from a spiral while increasing the length of the spiral. Change the decay rate of a spiral. Add or remove horizontal lines from a rectangular grid or concentric lines from a polar grid.
Add or remove vertical lines from a rectangular grid or radial lines from a polar grid. Start dragging, then press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow. This is great!!! You have the high res PDF link? I only can find the A4. Hey Jon — You might want to check this one Reply. You deserve a big hug and a French kiss for this. Not sure my wife would approve, but thank you anyway :D Reply.
Thanks Jamie Reply.