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- If I had to name Illustrator's

most unexpected feature,



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it would be the program's

ability to create graphs,



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by which I mean you can actually



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import a spreadsheet of data



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and generate bar graphs, line

graphs, pie charts, and so on.



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You can even create these

things called graph designs



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in order to render out

beautiful-looking pictographs.



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There's just one little problem.



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Before you can do a darn thing,



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you have to decide the size of your graph.



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And when I say size, I don't

mean the approximate size,



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I mean the exact size, which

is a big oversight, of course,



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because it's virtually

impossible to know exactly



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how big you want a thing

to be before you make it.



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So, what invariably happens



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is you create the graph

all the way through,



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and it ends up being the wrong dimensions



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or just the wrong proportions.



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And the one thing you can't do



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to a graph after you create it



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is scale it non-proportionately



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because it'll just end

up looking squished.



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So, what you have to do is

figure out the dimensions,



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usually after making the darn thing,



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and then recreate the graph from scratch



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with those dimensions in mind,



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which is a black eye on the feature.



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But the process of recreating the graph,



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it actually goes by pretty quickly.



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In fact, I'm going to show you exactly



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how that process works

in this very chapter.



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So, in conclusion, creating

a graph in the first place



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takes some time and effort,



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and then recreating it goes lickety-split.



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Plus, hey, it's Illustrator,



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so you can achieve some

really great-looking results,



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as we will in the following movies.