Adobe Illustrator hints Introduction Adobe Illustrator is a drafting/art application that is useful for creating posters or figures. GGCS Technical Support recommends using Illustrator to create poster documents to be sent from a Macintosh to the HP 755 CM Large-Format plotter. This document does not replace the online and hard-copy documentation sent with Illustrator. It contains a few hints that may be useful for creating Illustrator documents. Related Help Desk files Creating a Poster on a Macintosh Scanning Resolution Scanning with the Apple Color OneScanner Scanning Slides with the Polaroid SprintScan35 Slide Scanner Importing Graphics Illustrator now supports more graphics file formats. It also supports the Macintosh Drag-and-Drop technology. If you have file types not supported by Illustrator, use Adobe Photoshop or Canvas to convert the file to a type supported by Illustrator. Select Open from the File menu of Illustrator. Select the document to be imported. If you select a document that Illustrator cannot translate, you can try to convert it in Corel Draw or Adobe Photoshop into a file type recognized by Illustrator. An imported graphic can be moved or resized in Illustrator, but not edited. You can overlay Illustrator objects on top of the graphic, for example, to label items within a scanned photo. For further Illustrator tips, see the online documentation or the Adobe Illustrator books on the shelves in the GGCS Computer Lab.
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