- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you
how to install my custom dekeKeys
keyboard shortcuts on the Mac.
If you're working on the PC
you can go ahead and skip to the next movie.
Now one of the great things about dekeKeys
is that it provides you with exactly 100 new
or revised keyboard shortcuts.
Of course, that's assuming that I've counted accurately.
But whatever the number, they will hopefully help you move
through the software that much more quickly.
Now notice that we have two keyboard shortcuts files.
They both end in .kys.
This guy's for the Mac and this one's for the PC.
You need the Macintosh file
and you need to copy it to a very specific folder location.
And let me show you what that looks like.
I'll go ahead and open up this document right here
inside Illustrator.
And I want you to see that we have different locations
on Windows and the Mac.
So we're looking at the Macintosh info.
And we wanna put the file in this path right here,
so notice that there's an Illustrator 22 Settings folder,
and that's because CC 2018 is the same as version 22
of one of the longest running pieces of software
on the planet, Adobe Illustrator.
And just in case you're curious
how these version numbers have translated over time,
I have this chart right here.
And so you can see that CC 2018
is the same as version 22.
2017 is version 21,
2015.3 is 20, and so on.
The very first Illustrator CC didn't have a year,
but it came out in 2013
and that translates to version 17.
Now the reason we have this break in color
from black to blue is that this is the point
at which custom keyboard shortcuts were first introduced
inside Illustrator.
Now if you're at all unsure of exactly which version
of the program you're using
then go up to the Illustrator CC menu here
and choose the very first command, About Illustrator.
At which point you won't necessarily see a year,
except down here in the copyright statement,
but you will see a version number, in my case 22.
We don't care about the numbers after the dot.
If you're seeing a different version,
such as 21 or 20 or what have you,
then you need to substitute that number
in place of the 22 in the path string.
All right, so I'm gonna press Shift + page up
in order to switch to the first artboard in this document.
And then I'll go ahead and select the Type Tool,
which you can get by pressing the T key.
And now you wanna select this blue line of type down here.
And if you get this warning telling you
that the text was created in a different version
of Illustrator, specifically the PC version by the way,
tell the program to bug off by clicking OK.
And then try selecting that text again,
all the way up to the comma,
but don't select the comma, we don't want that.
Then go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command
or you can just take advantage of that keyboard shortcut,
Command + C.
All right, now I'll go back to the Illustrator CC menu
and choose Hide Illustrator
in order to reveal the Finder in the background.
And now I'll run through those steps.
So it's all documented in that file
we saw just a moment ago,
but I might as well show you how it works
by going up to the File menu
and choosing this first command, New Finder Window.
Then you wanna go up here to the Go menu
and choose Home in order to go to your Home location,
which is very likely gonna be named after you.
Then you wanna return to the Go menu
and choose Go to Folder,
which is gonna bring up this little path field right here.
Now in your case it will either be blank
or filled with the wrong information.
Some folder that you've been to recently.
What you wanna do is go up to the Edit menu
and choose the Paste command
or you can just press Command + V in order to paste
that path information that you just copied.
And then click Go
and that will take you to the proper folder.
Now if you've been working right along with me
through the fundamentals and advanced courses
you may see a shortcuts file,
in my case it's simply called dekeKeys.kys.
That's fine, we're not gonna replace it,
we're just gonna add another one
by bringing back the 31 settings folder,
which incidentally is located
inside the Exercise Files folder.
Then go ahead and grab
that dekeKeys for Illustrator Mac.kys file
and drag it over into the other folder.
And then before you release
go ahead and press and hold the Option key
and that way you'll create a copy of the file,
as apposed to moving it.
See that green plus sign next to my cursor.
And that way you'll retain my original KYS file
in case you need to come back to it later.
All right, now let's see how to load the shortcuts
inside Illustrator.
So I'll go ahead and switch back
to the application, like so.
And I'll Escape out of the text mode,
and then I'll go up to the Edit menu
and choose Keyboard Shortcuts,
which itself has a shortcut of mash your fist + K,
by which I mean Command + Shift + Option + K.
And then go to the Set item up here at the top,
which might be set to Illustrator Defaults
or your custom keyboard shortcut file,
and choose that most recent item,
dekeKeys for Illustrator Mac.
And just to make sure
that everything's working out the way we want it to,
go ahead and switch from Tools to Menu Commands
and then twirl open the Type menu right here
and you should see this second command,
which brings up the very helpful Glyphs panel
now has a shortcut of Command + Shift + Option + G.
After which point you can go ahead and click OK.
All right, now let's test that things are working properly
by going up to the Window menu
and notice this first command, New Window,
now has a shortcut of Command + Shift + Option + N.
And so rather than choosing the command
let's actually try out that shortcut.
And so I'll go ahead and press Command + Shift + Option + N
in order to create a second window,
notice this little 2 up here in the title bar,
into our document.
So we haven't duplicated the document,
we're just creating a second window into it.
Which means that I can go up to the View menu
and choose the Outline command
in order to switch to the outline mode,
and then I can zoom into the document, like so,
and even though I'm zoomed into this location
inside the second window
I'm still zoomed out in the standard preview mode
where the first window is concerned.
Which means I can now view these two windows
side-by-side by going up to this item right here,
the Arrange Documents icon, clicking on it,
and choosing this vertical 2-Up option,
which will show me both of these windows side-by-side.
And now you can just move things around if you like.
And if you make any changes
your edits will be reflected in both windows.
All right, now let's say at this point
you wanna put things back together.
In other words, you wanna consolidate the two views
into a single window with two tabs at the top.
Then you can return to the Arrange Documents icon
and choose this guy right here, Consolidate All.
Turns out however I've given it
another custom keyboard shortcut,
and so another way to consolidate your windows
is to press Command + Shift + Option + 0, like so.
At which point you'll see two tabs
along the top of the screen.
And so there you have it,
that's how you install my custom dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts
for Illustrator CC running on the Mac.
In the next movie I'll show you exactly what you've won.