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- [Instructor] In this
movie, I'll show you

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how to scale your artwork

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to suit a specific device or destination

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and not to spoil the ending,

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but the ultimate moral of the story

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is to scale inside Illustrator

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as opposed to Save for Web.

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So let's say I want to
take this iPhone 6 graphic

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and scale it so it exactly
fits on an iPhone 6 screen.

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In that case, one way to work

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might be to go to the File menu,

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choose Export

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and choose Save for Web.

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And now, I'll just go ahead
and scale the dialog box,

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so it takes up the entire screen.

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Now notice that my
Optimized tab is active.

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At which point, I'll go ahead

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and change the file format once again

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to PNG-24 and then I'll turn
off the Transparency checkbox.

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Now I'll drop down to the zoom ratio

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in the bottom left corner of the screen

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and change it to 400%.

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And then I'll scale my artwork

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so that I can see this brown case.

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And notice that the
horizontal and vertical edges

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exhibit no anti-aliasing whatsoever,

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and we have a very smooth drop shadow.

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Now, if you were to look up
the specs for an iPhone 6,

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you would see that when
it's set on its side,

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the screen measures 1334 pixels wide,

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and so I'll go ahead and
click on that width value

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and change it to 1334

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and because the Link icon is turned on,

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that changes the height automatically.

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After which point, I'll press the Tab key

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in order to update the preview.

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Now I need to scroll my
artwork, quite a bit actually,

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in order to see that case once again

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and notice we've made a mess

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of our horizontal and vertical edges.

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The horizontal edge exhibits anti-aliasing

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both above and below the stroke.

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The vertical edge not
only has anti-aliasing

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but you can also see
the sharpening artifact

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in the form of this column
of light gray pixels.

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And so obviously, this is no good.

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Now, the culprit is this percent value.

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If it's set to anything

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other than a multiple
of a hundred percent,

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you're going to run into problems.

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So, I could change it to 200%

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and then press the Tab key

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and if you have this problem

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where the preview doesn't update,

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then just go ahead

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and change this
optimization setting to None

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and then change it back to Art Optimized.

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After which point,

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I'm going to have to scroll quite a bit

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by dragging inside the preview

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until I can see that brown iPhone case.

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At which point, quite happily,
I'm seeing no anti-aliasing

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along the vertical or horizontal edge

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and we have no sharpening
artifact in the shadows.

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So once again, as long as you stick

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with a multiple of 100%, you're fine.

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Problem is, that doesn't
give you much flexibility

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and it doesn't allow us to
match the iPhone 6 screen.

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So, I'm going to cancel out

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and I'm going to scale the artwork
inside Illustrator instead.

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So, I'll just go ahead
and zoom out a little bit

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so I can take in the entire artboard

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and then I'll switch to the Artboard tool

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which you can get by pressing Shift + O

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and now notice up here
in the control panel

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that I'm working in inches,

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which is not the way to go.

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And so, I'll press Control +
R or Command + R in the Mac

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to bring up my rulers

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and then I'll right-click
on either one of them

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and choose Pixels

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in order to change my
unit of measure to pixels,

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which is what you want when
creating screen graphics.

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All right, now I want
to scale the artboard

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with respect to its center

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and so, I'll click in the center

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of this reference point matrix

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and then I'll dial in the
desired width and height values

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which are 1334 and 750 respectively

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or better yet, I could just go over here

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to this Presets option
and select iPhone 6/6s

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in order to scale the artboard like so.

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After which point, I'll
press the Escape key

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in order to exit the Artboard mode

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and return to the previously active tool.

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All right, now I need to scale the artwork

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and so I'll press Control
+ A or Command + A in a Mac

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in order to select everything

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and then I'll click in the word Transform

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to bring up the Transform panel

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and I'll go ahead and
turn on this Link icon

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which is going to link the
width and height values

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and I'll change my H value to 640 pixels

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and I'll press the Enter key

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or the Return key on the
Mac to invoke that change.

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Problem is, if I go ahead and
zoom in on this corner here

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and I press Control + H
or Command + H on the Mac,

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to hide those edges,

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you can see that the corner of the case

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does not properly align to the
corner of the iPhone itself.

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And so, to fix that problem,
I'll press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that scale

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and then I'll click in the
word Transform once again

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and I'll turn on the
Scale Corners checkbox

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which will scale the rounded corner

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so that they match each other.

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Now, it'd be nice

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if we could also turn
on the second checkbox

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which would scale the strokes

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and thereby, make them thicker,

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but if you do that, you're going to change

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the line weight values

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from even increments to decimal values

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and that's going to
introduce anti-aliasing,

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which obviously is not what we want.

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So just go ahead and turn on
that Scale Corners checkbox.

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Make sure the Link icon is turned on.

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Click on the H and change it to 640 pixels

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and then, once again, press the Enter key

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or the Return key on the Mac

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and you can see, that goes ahead

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and scales those round
corners so that they match.

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All right, now I'm done with the ruler,

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so I'll just press Control +
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in order to get rid of them

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and then I'll scale over
to this case right here

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and I'll go up to the View menu

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and I'll choose Pixel Preview

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or you have that keyboard shortcut

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of Control + Alt + Y or Command
+ Option + Y on the Mac.

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And now notice, if I zoom in,

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even though the second icon is selected

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over here on the far right
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and if I click this
down-pointing arrowhead,

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I've got Snap to pixel
while scaling turned on.

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Because Illustrator actually snaps

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the bounding box to the grid,

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we still have anti-aliasing.

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So I'll just cancel out of here

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and with my artwork still
selected, which it is,

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we just have the edges
hidden for the moment,

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I'll go ahead and click on this first icon

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which will align the
artwork to the pixel grid.

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At which time, we no longer
have any anti-aliasing

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associated with the
horizontal or vertical edges.

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All right, I'll go ahead
and press Control + H

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or Command + H on the Mac

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to bring back my selection widgets

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and then I'll press Control
+ A or Command + A on the Mac

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and just like that, we no
longer have any anti-aliasing

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associated with our
horizontal or vertical edges.

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Now, the one problem with what we've done

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is we've messed up the text once again,

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which is not something I want to do

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and so I'll just go ahead
and press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the Mac to
undo the snap to the pixel grid

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and then I'll press Control + H

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or Command + H on the Mac to
bring back my selection edges

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and I'll just go ahead and zoom out here

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so that I can see my
artwork in its entirety.

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And now, I'll Shift + click
on the text on the right

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and Shift + click on the text on the left

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using my Black Arrow tool in
order to deselect that text.

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And now, just for the sake of variety,

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I'll right-click inside
the document window

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and choose Make Pixel Perfect

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in order to snap that
artwork to the pixel grid

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and then I'll press Control + Shift + A

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or Command + Shift + A in the Mac

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in order to deselect my artwork.

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And now notice if I zoom
in on the right hand phone,

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that the text continues to look great

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and that we have no anti-aliasing

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along the horizontal and vertical edges.

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And now, the only step left
is to scale your strokes

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which I'm afraid you'll
have to do manually.

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And that's how you scale your artwork

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to suit a specific device or destination

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here inside Illustrator CC.