- In this first chapter I'll take you on a quick tour
of Illustrator, specifically I'll show you how to create
a new document, add a few text elements across a few pages
and then save your changes as a native AI file
that you can later open and edit anytime you like.
Upfront I'll show you how to open a file in Illustrator
just by double clicking on it,
first in Windows and then on the Mac.
By which I mean watch the one that suits
your platform and skip the other one.
And I'll show you the difference between inches,
millimeters, picas and points,
which are the essential units of design.
Sound exciting?
Okay so maybe this won't be the most exciting stuff we do,
in fact it may be the least exciting
but it's how you get to work reliably and with as
little frustration as possible in Adobe Illustrator.