- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to save any and all changes
that you've made to your document.
Notice up here in the Title tab at the top of the screen,
we're seeing that this document
is called 8-page newsletter.ai
and that it has an asterisk at the end of its file name.
That asterisk tells us that we have unsaved changes
associated with this document
and so, there's two ways to update the file.
One is to go up to the File menu
and choose the standard Save command,
or you have that standard keyboard shortcut
of Ctrl+S here on the PC or Command+S on a Mac,
in which case you're going to get this alert message
that is telling you that you're about
to save to a so-called legacy format,
which means you could possibly lose some of your data.
In our case, this actually isn't true.
What I've done is I've gone ahead
and saved nearly all of the documents I'll be giving you
to the CS6 format and the reason is,
that keeps those files backward-compatible
without losing anything important.
So, if you're working along with me
and you trust my judgment,
then what you should do is just go ahead
and turn on the Don't Show Again check box and click OK.
But what I'm going to do is save a separate version
of this document, so I'm going to go ahead
and cancel out of that alert message,
and now I'll return to the File menu
and choose the Save As command,
or you've got a slightly different keyboard shortcut
of Ctrl+Shift+S here on the PC
or Command+Shift+S on the Mac
and that's going to bring up the Save As dialogue box
which allows you to change the name
and location of your file.
I'm just going to go ahead and call this file My new document.
I'm not including it along with this folder or anything,
I'm just creating it on the fly,
and then I'll go ahead and click the Save button
in order to bring up the big
Illustrator Options dialogue box.
Now, it's pretty confusing,
there's a lot of stuff going on here,
so if you like, you can just go ahead
and click the OK button
because the default settings
that we're seeing right here are the safest settings
of them all.
However, I want you to know everything that's going on
and we're going to start with these check boxes right here.
Notice this first guy, Create PDF Compatible File.
What that does is it embeds all the PDF information
that's necessary to view the file
either in the free Adobe Reader,
which anyone can download from Adobe.com,
or inside the professional version of Adobe Acrobat.
You also need this check box to be turned on
if you want to import the file into InDesign,
which is my way of saying you almost always
want to leave this check box turned on.
The only reason you would ever turn it off,
and it's a little bit dangerous,
is to save on the file size.
If you need the smallest file possible,
whether because you're emailing it to another person
or what have you, then you might turn this check box off.
The good news is you could always go back to this file
and turn it on again when you save it in the future.
Embed ICC Profiles goes ahead
and tells another application
what color space you're working in.
For now, just make sure you leave
that check box turned on
because turning it off doesn't really do you any good.
It just save a few K in terms of the file size.
Next we have this Use Compression check box.
That's going to apply lossless compression to the file.
So, it's not going to hurt the file at all
and it is going to give you a smaller illustration,
so you want to leave this check box turned on as well.
And then this final check box allows you
to save each artboard to a separate file
if you're so inclined.
And you rarely do that unless you're saving
to an archival file format,
which takes us to this Version option
way up here at the top of the dialogue box.
So, notice, in addition to the Illustrator CC format,
we've got just about everything before Illustrator CC,
starting with CS6 and going all the way back
to Illustrator 3, which is a product
that was introduced in the early 90s.
Now, the only reason to choose one
of these legacy formats is if you're sharing a file
with somebody who doesn't have Illustrator CC,
they have an older version of the software,
and there's only really two
of these options I would generally recommend.
And to demonstrate what I'm talking about,
I'll go ahead and switch to Illustrator CS3
for a moment here, at which point I'll get a warning.
You're always going to see a warning when you work
with an archival format
and the warnings are somewhat documented
down here at the bottom.
Notice that it's saying any hidden
appearance attributes will be discarded.
Well, that's a pretty advanced warning.
We're not going to really spend that much time
with the Appearance panel until the Advanced course
and it's not really true.
So, let me explain what's going on.
If you go back to Illustrator CS3,
you're going to lose your artboards
because CS3 and earlier didn't support artboards,
so what you're going to end up
with is just one artboard right there in the center
of this document.
All of the numbers will be preserved,
but they won't have their artboard information.
So, what you probably want to do in a case like this,
if you go to CS3 or earlier,
is to save each artboard to a separate file.
At which point you can either save all of the artboards
or you can specify a range.
For example, if I change this Range value
to two, five through seven,
then I'm saying that I want to save pages two, five, six,
and seven, each one of them as a separate document.
If for some reason you need
to save a backward-compatible file
and you want to make sure you preserve all your artboards,
then you need to go with at least Illustrator CS4.
The problem with the CS4 format,
and I know I'm getting technical here
but I want you to know everything,
if you go with Illustrator CS4,
the one problem you're going to have is
with any raster effects.
And you may recall that raster effects include things
that are better represented using pixels
and these include, most obviously,
drop shadows and glows.
In which case, those effects are going to be converted
to embedded images, which is definitely not what you want.
So, what I generally do is go with Illustrator CS6
and that's because 99.9% of the time,
the way things stand right now,
you're not losing anything
and you can share your files with folks
who haven't bought in to the Creative Cloud program.
And so, assuming that's what I want to do,
then I do need to make one change which is
to turn off Save each artboard to a separate file
so that I'm saving all the artboards
to a single document.
You don't have to worry about this subsetting fonts option,
just leave it alone and go ahead and click OK
in order to save that file.
And by the way, if you get an alert message
warning you about the dangers of saving to a legacy format,
just turn on the Don't Show Again check box and click OK.
Alright, there's just one more option
I want you to know about.
I'm going to go to the File menu
and choose the Save As command once more
so that I can show you the file format option
that's available to you.
I mentioned this before, but I'll say it again.
Almost always you're going to want to go
with the Adobe Illustrator .AI format.
It's compatible with all of the other
Adobe applications out there and it works beautifully.
But just so you know what your options are,
you could also save a PDF document.
Now, that's not really necessary
because a PDF file is already built in
to an Adobe Illustrator file by default.
The only reason to go with Illustrator EPS
is if you're working in a very old school environment
with an ancient version of QuarkXPress, for example.
That's when you would need an EPS file.
And then finally, SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics
and that comes in handy if you want to create a file
that can be viewed inside of an internet browser
and zoomed in on as well,
which is why we'll be looking at that format later
when we talk about saving documents for the web.
But in most cases, all you want
is the native AI format like so,
and that, friends, is how you save any
and all changes to your document
so that you don't lose a single thing
here inside Illustrator.