1 00:00:00.09 --> 00:00:02.06 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to use 2 00:00:02.06 --> 00:00:05.06 symbols as stand ins for master pages. 3 00:00:05.06 --> 00:00:08.04 Now, Illustrator doesn't provide master pages. 4 00:00:08.04 --> 00:00:12.00 That's more in the domain of a dedicated page layout program 5 00:00:12.00 --> 00:00:13.07 like InDesign. 6 00:00:13.07 --> 00:00:17.00 And so the idea is you can use master pages to repeat 7 00:00:17.00 --> 00:00:20.04 commonly used elements such as headers and footers and 8 00:00:20.04 --> 00:00:22.06 page numbers and so forth. 9 00:00:22.06 --> 00:00:25.08 The thing is, while master pages are super useful, they're 10 00:00:25.08 --> 00:00:29.01 best suited to lots and lots of pages that are the same 11 00:00:29.01 --> 00:00:32.08 size and orientation, which is not the case for this 12 00:00:32.08 --> 00:00:35.01 particular piece of artwork. 13 00:00:35.01 --> 00:00:38.07 Instead what we have here is a book cover laid out flat. 14 00:00:38.07 --> 00:00:41.01 So we have three art boards in all. 15 00:00:41.01 --> 00:00:43.09 The left one is for the back cover, the center one's for 16 00:00:43.09 --> 00:00:46.03 the spine, and then the right hand one is for the 17 00:00:46.03 --> 00:00:47.08 front cover. 18 00:00:47.08 --> 00:00:50.03 And so if you were to print this out onto one sheet 19 00:00:50.03 --> 00:00:53.00 and then wrap it around a book, you would have a cover. 20 00:00:53.00 --> 00:00:56.09 And we do have some repeated elements such as the author's 21 00:00:56.09 --> 00:00:59.05 name and the publisher's logo. 22 00:00:59.05 --> 00:01:02.05 But these elements appear sometimes in different locations 23 00:01:02.05 --> 00:01:05.04 from the front cover to the back cover, and definitely 24 00:01:05.04 --> 00:01:07.09 different angles on the spine. 25 00:01:07.09 --> 00:01:10.05 So this is a case where symbols are going to work better 26 00:01:10.05 --> 00:01:12.09 than a master page. 27 00:01:12.09 --> 00:01:16.03 And so I'll go ahead and switch over to my starter 28 00:01:16.03 --> 00:01:18.07 document here, and I'll select the author name with my 29 00:01:18.07 --> 00:01:21.02 black arrow tool, and notice that I've hidden my right 30 00:01:21.02 --> 00:01:24.03 side panels by pressing Shift+Tab, and that just gives me 31 00:01:24.03 --> 00:01:25.09 more room to work. 32 00:01:25.09 --> 00:01:28.02 But I do need to bring back the symbols panel, and so I'll 33 00:01:28.02 --> 00:01:31.07 move my cursor all the way over to the right side of the 34 00:01:31.07 --> 00:01:34.08 screen, at which point my panels will come back and I'll 35 00:01:34.08 --> 00:01:38.09 grab the club there for the symbols panel, and I'll drag 36 00:01:38.09 --> 00:01:41.08 it and drop it so it's a floating panel like so. 37 00:01:41.08 --> 00:01:44.00 And then I'll expand it. 38 00:01:44.00 --> 00:01:46.09 All right, now what we want to do is take the author name 39 00:01:46.09 --> 00:01:48.08 and save it as a new symbol. 40 00:01:48.08 --> 00:01:51.04 And you can do that by clicking on the little page icon 41 00:01:51.04 --> 00:01:53.02 at the bottom of the panel. 42 00:01:53.02 --> 00:01:55.04 And I'll go ahead and call this guy Author. 43 00:01:55.04 --> 00:01:57.09 I'll set the registration point to the bottom right corner, 44 00:01:57.09 --> 00:02:00.06 and I'm going to go ahead with the static symbol, just because 45 00:02:00.06 --> 00:02:02.09 it's easier to keep track of and we don't have any need 46 00:02:02.09 --> 00:02:04.08 for a dynamic one. 47 00:02:04.08 --> 00:02:06.05 And now click Okay. 48 00:02:06.05 --> 00:02:09.06 And we end up with an instance of a symbol as we're seeing 49 00:02:09.06 --> 00:02:13.02 indicated by the word symbol on the far left side of the 50 00:02:13.02 --> 00:02:14.06 control panel. 51 00:02:14.06 --> 00:02:18.04 Now you may see that right now, the author's name is just 52 00:02:18.04 --> 00:02:20.00 set to author name. 53 00:02:20.00 --> 00:02:22.00 That's because I don't know what the author's name is. 54 00:02:22.00 --> 00:02:25.01 And yet I can still go ahead and lay out the design. 55 00:02:25.01 --> 00:02:28.01 And so I'm going to go up to the view menu and choose smart 56 00:02:28.01 --> 00:02:30.08 guides in order to turn them on. 57 00:02:30.08 --> 00:02:33.05 And I'll go ahead and drag this guy so it snaps into 58 00:02:33.05 --> 00:02:36.06 alignment with the right side of the back cover, and then 59 00:02:36.06 --> 00:02:40.01 I'll press and hold the Shift and Alt keys, that's Shift 60 00:02:40.01 --> 00:02:43.01 and Option on the Mac, in order to constrain the angle 61 00:02:43.01 --> 00:02:45.08 of my drag to exactly horizontal and create a copy. 62 00:02:45.08 --> 00:02:49.02 And then, I want you to notice that my keyboard increment 63 00:02:49.02 --> 00:02:52.01 is set to one point, and I'm confirming that by pressing 64 00:02:52.01 --> 00:02:55.07 Ctrl+K here on the PC, or Command+K on the Mac. 65 00:02:55.07 --> 00:02:59.03 After which I'll go ahead and press Shift+Left Arrow three 66 00:02:59.03 --> 00:03:02.00 times in a row, to nudge the author's name into the 67 00:03:02.00 --> 00:03:03.04 desired position. 68 00:03:03.04 --> 00:03:06.05 All right, now I'm going to create another copy of this guy 69 00:03:06.05 --> 00:03:10.02 by Shift+Alt dragging it, or Shift+Option dragging it into 70 00:03:10.02 --> 00:03:12.08 the spine art board. 71 00:03:12.08 --> 00:03:15.07 And then I'll switch to the rotate tool, which you can get 72 00:03:15.07 --> 00:03:17.04 by pressing the R key. 73 00:03:17.04 --> 00:03:20.07 And then notice that by default, the transformation origin 74 00:03:20.07 --> 00:03:23.05 is located in the bottom right corner of the instance, 75 00:03:23.05 --> 00:03:26.02 and that's because that's the way I set things up when 76 00:03:26.02 --> 00:03:28.04 I designed the symbol just a moment ago. 77 00:03:28.04 --> 00:03:30.06 All right, so I'll press the Enter key or the Return key 78 00:03:30.06 --> 00:03:32.07 on the Mac to bring up the rotate dialog box. 79 00:03:32.07 --> 00:03:35.08 Notice that the angle is set to 90 degrees, at which point 80 00:03:35.08 --> 00:03:38.04 I will click okay to accept that change and then I'll just 81 00:03:38.04 --> 00:03:40.05 nudge this guy a little bit to the left. 82 00:03:40.05 --> 00:03:43.07 All right, now I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the 83 00:03:43.07 --> 00:03:47.02 publisher, and I'm going to press the V key to switch back to 84 00:03:47.02 --> 00:03:49.08 my black arrow tool, and I'll click on this thing right here 85 00:03:49.08 --> 00:03:52.05 which I've expressed is one big compound path, just to make 86 00:03:52.05 --> 00:03:54.00 it easier to select. 87 00:03:54.00 --> 00:03:56.09 And I'll convert it into its own symbol by clicking on the 88 00:03:56.09 --> 00:04:00.08 little page icon and calling this guy Ribbon. 89 00:04:00.08 --> 00:04:03.09 And for now, I'll leave it set to dynamic symbol, so I can 90 00:04:03.09 --> 00:04:06.01 show you that it's not always the best setting. 91 00:04:06.01 --> 00:04:09.01 And then I'll select the bottom left point in this 92 00:04:09.01 --> 00:04:12.05 registration matrix right here, and I'll click okay. 93 00:04:12.05 --> 00:04:16.07 And now I'll grab this guy and I'll turn it into a symbol 94 00:04:16.07 --> 00:04:19.07 by clicking on the page icon and I'll call it Publisher 95 00:04:19.07 --> 00:04:23.07 and I'll go to static symbols so I can keep track of it. 96 00:04:23.07 --> 00:04:26.07 I don't care about its center point, so I'll just go ahead 97 00:04:26.07 --> 00:04:28.01 and click okay. 98 00:04:28.01 --> 00:04:29.09 All right, so we've got a couple of instances now. 99 00:04:29.09 --> 00:04:32.00 I'll go ahead and Shift+Click on this guy. 100 00:04:32.00 --> 00:04:35.02 We can't really see its bounding box, but I can see a little 101 00:04:35.02 --> 00:04:37.04 plus sign, so I know it's selected. 102 00:04:37.04 --> 00:04:40.01 And then I'll click on the page icon in order to bring up 103 00:04:40.01 --> 00:04:41.06 the dialog box. 104 00:04:41.06 --> 00:04:43.08 I will call this guy Logo this time around. 105 00:04:43.08 --> 00:04:46.06 We want a static symbol, and I want its orientation point 106 00:04:46.06 --> 00:04:49.08 to be bottom right by default, at which point I'll 107 00:04:49.08 --> 00:04:51.00 click okay. 108 00:04:51.00 --> 00:04:53.01 All right, now let's make a couple of copies of this guy. 109 00:04:53.01 --> 00:04:56.02 I'll go ahead and drag him until he snaps into alignment 110 00:04:56.02 --> 00:04:59.09 with the top left corner of this rectangle, and then I'll 111 00:04:59.09 --> 00:05:02.02 press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac to create 112 00:05:02.02 --> 00:05:05.00 a copy of it, and I'll press Shift+Up Arrow a couple of 113 00:05:05.00 --> 00:05:07.07 times, let's say, in order to move the logo upward. 114 00:05:07.07 --> 00:05:11.06 And then I'll drag another copy of it, which I'm doing by 115 00:05:11.06 --> 00:05:14.05 pressing and holding the Alt key or the Option key on 116 00:05:14.05 --> 00:05:17.03 the Mac, and let's go ahead and rotate and scale this guy. 117 00:05:17.03 --> 00:05:20.05 So I'll press the R key to switch to the rotate tool. 118 00:05:20.05 --> 00:05:24.01 And you can see that the origin point is the bottom right, 119 00:05:24.01 --> 00:05:26.01 so I'll just press the Enter key or the Return key on the 120 00:05:26.01 --> 00:05:28.00 Mac to bring up the rotate dialog box, and I'll reapply 121 00:05:28.00 --> 00:05:31.07 that same angle value of negative 90 degrees and click okay. 122 00:05:31.07 --> 00:05:35.06 I don't want this guy to be way over here on the wrong 123 00:05:35.06 --> 00:05:38.02 art board, so I'll move it over to this location. 124 00:05:38.02 --> 00:05:41.06 And then I'll press the S key to switch to the scale 125 00:05:41.06 --> 00:05:44.04 tool right there, and I'll press the Enter key or the 126 00:05:44.04 --> 00:05:46.07 Return key on the Mac to bring up the scale dialog box, 127 00:05:46.07 --> 00:05:50.06 and I'll change this uniform value to 60% and click okay. 128 00:05:50.06 --> 00:05:54.05 And then I'll press the V key to switch back to my black 129 00:05:54.05 --> 00:05:56.09 arrow tool, and I'll go ahead and move this guy up a little 130 00:05:56.09 --> 00:05:59.00 bit, now obviously it's a big mess at this point, but we are 131 00:05:59.00 --> 00:06:02.00 going to address those problems in just a moment. 132 00:06:02.00 --> 00:06:06.00 After, news alert, I have found out the author's name here. 133 00:06:06.00 --> 00:06:09.04 And so I'm going to associate it with the symbol by double 134 00:06:09.04 --> 00:06:13.02 clicking on author name, at which point I'll see this 135 00:06:13.02 --> 00:06:15.07 warning telling me that I'm about to edit the symbol 136 00:06:15.07 --> 00:06:18.00 definition, that's exactly what I want so I'll click okay. 137 00:06:18.00 --> 00:06:21.02 And then I'll just go ahead and double click inside the 138 00:06:21.02 --> 00:06:24.04 text in order to automatically switch to the type tool and 139 00:06:24.04 --> 00:06:26.07 position the blinking insertion marker. 140 00:06:26.07 --> 00:06:29.08 Press Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac to select all that text 141 00:06:29.08 --> 00:06:34.09 and I will enter Barbara and Warner, is what 142 00:06:34.09 --> 00:06:37.03 I'm looking for, just an arbitrary name, of course. 143 00:06:37.03 --> 00:06:39.01 You can enter anything you like. 144 00:06:39.01 --> 00:06:41.05 After which point I'll press the Escape key to accept my 145 00:06:41.05 --> 00:06:44.05 text edit, and I'll press the Escape key again in order 146 00:06:44.05 --> 00:06:46.02 to update the symbol. 147 00:06:46.02 --> 00:06:49.05 At which point you can see that all the other instances 148 00:06:49.05 --> 00:06:52.08 of the author's name have updated as well. 149 00:06:52.08 --> 00:06:55.08 All right, now let's make some modifications to the 150 00:06:55.08 --> 00:06:57.05 publisher's logo here. 151 00:06:57.05 --> 00:07:00.07 I'll start by double clicking on this symbol and saying okay 152 00:07:00.07 --> 00:07:03.05 in response to the alert. 153 00:07:03.05 --> 00:07:07.00 And now I want to take this guy and I want to scale it. 154 00:07:07.00 --> 00:07:09.06 Obviously it's way too big, so I'll press the S key to 155 00:07:09.06 --> 00:07:11.02 switch to my scale tool. 156 00:07:11.02 --> 00:07:14.00 By default, in this case, the origin point is the bottom 157 00:07:14.00 --> 00:07:16.00 left corner, that's what I want. 158 00:07:16.00 --> 00:07:18.03 And I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac 159 00:07:18.03 --> 00:07:20.01 to bring up the scale dialog box. 160 00:07:20.01 --> 00:07:23.02 And I'll change the uniform value this time to 50%, and 161 00:07:23.02 --> 00:07:26.01 notice how all the strokes are glomming together. 162 00:07:26.01 --> 00:07:28.08 That's in part because I had the scale strokes and effects 163 00:07:28.08 --> 00:07:31.06 check box turned off, but even if I turn it on, it's not 164 00:07:31.06 --> 00:07:33.04 going to make a difference. 165 00:07:33.04 --> 00:07:36.01 Now if it had been on before I brought the dialog box up, 166 00:07:36.01 --> 00:07:39.02 then it'd work, but it doesn't seem to work if you turn on 167 00:07:39.02 --> 00:07:41.01 the check box on the fly. 168 00:07:41.01 --> 00:07:45.01 And so I'm just going to click copy and I want to show you that 169 00:07:45.01 --> 00:07:48.04 that is ultimately the result of the fact that this is a 170 00:07:48.04 --> 00:07:50.01 dynamic symbol. 171 00:07:50.01 --> 00:07:52.09 And so the easiest way to fix the problem in this case 172 00:07:52.09 --> 00:07:56.02 is to make sure the ribbon symbol is selected, and then 173 00:07:56.02 --> 00:07:59.09 click on the dialog box icon to bring up the symbol options 174 00:07:59.09 --> 00:08:03.07 dialog box, and then I will set it to static symbol and 175 00:08:03.07 --> 00:08:07.00 click okay and notice that solves the problem. 176 00:08:07.00 --> 00:08:10.01 All right, but I do want to make a change to this symbol, 177 00:08:10.01 --> 00:08:12.08 so I'm going to double click on it with the black arrow tool. 178 00:08:12.08 --> 00:08:16.08 And I'm going to go ahead and click on this compound path 179 00:08:16.08 --> 00:08:20.00 to select it and I'm going to take the line weight value 180 00:08:20.00 --> 00:08:21.08 down to 0.5 point. 181 00:08:21.08 --> 00:08:24.07 And I'll go ahead and change the color of the stroke 182 00:08:24.07 --> 00:08:26.02 to this shade of red. 183 00:08:26.02 --> 00:08:29.01 And now I could either escape all the way out if I wanted to 184 00:08:29.01 --> 00:08:32.02 or I could just go back to the logo by clicking on the 185 00:08:32.02 --> 00:08:36.08 word logo in the top left corner of the document window. 186 00:08:36.08 --> 00:08:39.01 And I'm going to go with the latter because I want to add a 187 00:08:39.01 --> 00:08:41.08 registered trademark to this text right here, so I'll go 188 00:08:41.08 --> 00:08:44.04 ahead and double click on it in order to edit this 189 00:08:44.04 --> 00:08:47.04 sub symbol, and so you can see I've now wiggled my way 190 00:08:47.04 --> 00:08:50.01 back down to the point type and so I'll just go ahead and 191 00:08:50.01 --> 00:08:54.06 double click inside the text to switch to the type tool. 192 00:08:54.06 --> 00:08:57.05 And I'll move the blinking insertion marker to the end 193 00:08:57.05 --> 00:08:58.09 of the text. 194 00:08:58.09 --> 00:09:01.08 And I'll enter a registered trademark, you could type 195 00:09:01.08 --> 00:09:05.04 Option+R on the Mac, or on either platform you could go to 196 00:09:05.04 --> 00:09:07.08 the type menu and choose the glyphs command. 197 00:09:07.08 --> 00:09:10.07 And if you loaded D keys you have that shortcut of mass 198 00:09:10.07 --> 00:09:14.09 surface G, and then locate the registered trademark 199 00:09:14.09 --> 00:09:17.03 which is this teeny little guy here. 200 00:09:17.03 --> 00:09:19.03 Just a few items before the copyright symbol. 201 00:09:19.03 --> 00:09:22.04 And so you may have to scroll down to it, and then just 202 00:09:22.04 --> 00:09:24.08 double click on it right there in order to enter it, and 203 00:09:24.08 --> 00:09:27.05 then because this panel takes up so much room on screen, 204 00:09:27.05 --> 00:09:29.02 I'll just go ahead and close it. 205 00:09:29.02 --> 00:09:31.06 And you can see you get a super scripted character. 206 00:09:31.06 --> 00:09:34.06 But not super scripted enough in my opinion, so I'll go 207 00:09:34.06 --> 00:09:37.06 ahead and bring up the character panel by clicking on the 208 00:09:37.06 --> 00:09:39.06 word character up here in the control panel. 209 00:09:39.06 --> 00:09:42.03 I'll take the type size value down to 10 points. 210 00:09:42.03 --> 00:09:45.04 And then I'll select the baseline shift because notice it's 211 00:09:45.04 --> 00:09:48.01 moved way down, and so I'll set the baseline shift value 212 00:09:48.01 --> 00:09:50.04 to 6.5 points right there. 213 00:09:50.04 --> 00:09:53.03 And now I'll dismiss the panel and I'll press the right 214 00:09:53.03 --> 00:09:56.07 arrow key in order to move my insertion marker between 215 00:09:56.07 --> 00:09:58.07 the trademark symbol and the S. 216 00:09:58.07 --> 00:10:01.05 And then I'll bring back the character panel and I'll change 217 00:10:01.05 --> 00:10:05.00 this kerning value right here to negative 75 and I'll 218 00:10:05.00 --> 00:10:07.07 press the Enter key or the Return key again. 219 00:10:07.07 --> 00:10:10.08 Now I'll escape all the way out by pressing the Escape key 220 00:10:10.08 --> 00:10:13.07 once to accept my text edit, and then pressing it a second 221 00:10:13.07 --> 00:10:17.01 time in order to escape out of the symbol mode. 222 00:10:17.01 --> 00:10:19.05 All right, now let's see what's happened. 223 00:10:19.05 --> 00:10:22.00 Notice that all of the publisher logos have updated 224 00:10:22.00 --> 00:10:26.08 regardless of their position, size, or orientation. 225 00:10:26.08 --> 00:10:29.04 Just one more change I want to make. 226 00:10:29.04 --> 00:10:32.01 I want to take this guy right here, and I want to move it 227 00:10:32.01 --> 00:10:34.05 over so the top of the S is aligned to the bottom of the R. 228 00:10:34.05 --> 00:10:37.09 And I'll press Shift+Down Arrow a couple of times in order 229 00:10:37.09 --> 00:10:40.08 to move that publisher over. 230 00:10:40.08 --> 00:10:45.03 And now I'll press Ctrl+Alt+0 or Command+Option+0 on a Mac, 231 00:10:45.03 --> 00:10:48.01 in order to fit all the art boards on screen. 232 00:10:48.01 --> 00:10:52.00 And those are a few ways to use symbols as stand ins 233 00:10:52.00 --> 00:10:55.04 for master pages here inside Illustrator.