- In this movie, I'll show you how to use
the smart punctuation command,
which essentially fixes broken text
inside of Illustrator.
And to get a sense for what I'm talking about,
I'll go ahead and scroll down a few lines
on this first page.
Notice if I zoom in here
that we've got a couple of problems.
First of all, we have straight quotes,
which is a real drag because there's
a ton of quotes inside this document.
Then notice this fi right there
in the word finished.
Do you see how it appears
as two independent characters
whereas what we're supposed to see
is the lowercase f curl over and form
the dot on the letter i?
That's what's known as a ligature.
Now what's amazing is that smart quotes
are already turned on inside this document.
That function resides in a strange place in Illustrator.
What you want to do is go up to the control panel
and click on the Document Setup button,
and then inside the Document Setup dialogue box,
you click on the word Type.
Then you're going to see this
Use Typographer's Quotes check box turned on.
You also have the option of specifying the language
that you're using, and that's because there's all kinds
of quote conventions out there.
And then you can also specify what your
double quotes, as well as what your single quotes,
look like.
And so if you wanted straight quotes to indicate,
for example, inches, then you would turn
this check box right here off.
However, I want to leave it on,
so I'll just go ahead and click on the Cancel button.
Notice what that means.
If I go ahead and select the Type tool,
which I can get by pressing the T key,
and I select this quote character
and then I just re-enter it by pressing
Shift quote, then I'm going to get curly quotes instead,
which is great, but what do I do
about my existing problems?
Well I'll just go ahead and press the Escape key
in order to exit the text entry mode,
and then I'll click off the text
to de-select it.
Here's what you do.
You go up to the Type menu
and choose this sanity saving command
right here, Smart Punctuation,
which will go ahead and replace,
notice your ff, fi, and ffi ligatures,
as well as the fl variations.
We can also replace smart quotes
as well as En and Em Dashes.
We'll see what that means in just a moment.
Now currently, I don't have anything selected,
so I want to switch Replace In to Entire Document,
and I also want to report the results.
I want you to see what happens
with the fi right there in the word finished.
As soon as I click OK,
a moment later I'll see this result
telling me that six ligatures were changed,
including this guy right there.
So notice that the f and i
are now fused into a single character.
I've also changed 103 quotes.
So you can see I've got curly quotes
all over the place now.
I replaced one dash, dot, or fraction.
So my guess is it's a dash,
and to see if Illustrator gave me the right kind
of dash, I'm going to go ahead
and click OK.
Then I'll go up to the Edit menu
and choose Find and Replace,
which allows you to locate characters
inside of your document.
And the character I want to find
is an en dash, which is a dash
that's as wide as a standard lowercase character,
such as the letter n.
But I don't know how to enter that,
so what I'm going to do is click this
down pointing arrow head
right next to the Find option
and I'll choose En Dash.
That goes ahead and creates
this little code right there,
caret equals, at which point I'll click
the Find button in order to locate that en dash.
That's not what I want.
I want an em dash at that location,
which is a wider dash,
a dash that's as wide as the letter m,
and so I'm going to click the down pointing
arrow head after the Replace With option.
I'll choose Em Dash right there,
no Em Space, but Em Dash.
Then you want to go ahead and click
the Replace button, and you'll see
that character gets replaced like so,
after which point I'll go ahead and click Done
to dismiss the dialogue box.
And that, friends, is how you replace
broken type by going to the Type menu
and choosing Smart Punctuation
here inside Illustrator.