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- In this first chapter I'll
take you on a quick tour

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of Illustrator, specifically
I'll show you how to create

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a new document, add a few text
elements across a few pages

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and then save your changes
as a native AI file

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that you can later open
and edit anytime you like.

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Upfront I'll show you how to
open a file in Illustrator

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just by double clicking on it,

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first in Windows and then on the Mac.

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By which I mean watch the one that suits

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your platform and skip the other one.

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And I'll show you the
difference between inches,

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millimeters, picas and points,

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which are the essential units of design.

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Sound exciting?

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Okay so maybe this won't be
the most exciting stuff we do,

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in fact it may be the least exciting

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but it's how you get to
work reliably and with as

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little frustration as
possible in Adobe Illustrator.