Introduction
Use to select from a range of colors. Click a color
picker to display a series of color swatches, then click the color
you want.
Use to size and position the top left corner of an
image at an exact location in the drawing.
Enables and disables the Snap To Guidelines command,
which automatically aligns objects with any guidelines you encounter
as you drag the objects.
Lets you select, move, and resize objects using the
mouse.
Opens the Zoom flyout, which contains the Zoom tool
and the Pan tool.
Lets you zoom in and out. Drag to zoom in on a selected
area, right-click to zoom out.
Lets you choose a fill color from the on-screen Color
Palette, or an outline color by right-clicking a color.
Lets you mirror an object left to right and vice-versa.
Opens the object flyout, which contains the Polygon
tool, Spiral tool, and Graph Paper tool.
In a symmetrical spiral, the distance between each
revolution of the spiral is constant.
Opens the Outline flyout, which lets you customize
outline attributes such as color, width, style, nib shape, and
arrowheads.
Lets you customize outline attributes such as width,
style, and line-ending shapes.
Opens the Shape Edit flyout, which contains the Shape
tool, Knife tool, Eraser tool, and Free Transform tool.
Lets you select the last used Free Transform tool,
i.e., the Free Rotation tool, Free Angle Reflection tool, Free
Scale tool, or the Free Skew tool.
Lets you slant the horizontal and vertical lines
of an object simultaneously, relative to the object's anchor point.
You can set the anchor point by clicking anywhere in the Drawing
Window with the Free Skew tool.
Lets you enter words directly on the screen as Artistic
text, or in frames as Paragraph text.
Opens the Curve flyout, which contains the Freehand
tool, Bezier tool, Natural Pen tool, Dimension tool, and Connector
Line tool.
Lets you draw freehand lines and shapes by dragging
the mouse, similar to the way you move a pencil on paper.
Opens a flyout, in which you can choose from a variety
of line styles.
Lets you apply fills using the mouse. The direction
and position of the fills are controlled using fill arrows, which
can be dragged across the surface of the selected object.
Opens the Interactive Fill flyout, which contains
the Interactive Fill tool and the Interactive Mesh Fill tool.
Adds a light source, which is projected toward the
selected extruded object.
Adds a second light source, which is projected toward
the selected extruded object.
Lets you create object extrusions made of vectors.
Lets you position the vanishing point, relative to
the center of the selected extruded object.
Drag the slider (white bar) toward the object's center
anchor to decrease the extrusion depth. Drag the slider toward
the vanishing point (black X) to increase the extrusion depth.
Lets you set color properties for the extruded surfaces
of the selected object.
Lets you set lighting properties for the extruded
surfaces of the selected object.
Lets you shape an envelope. You can move envelope
nodes freely and use control points to make precise adjustments.
Lets you choose a perspective type for the drop shadow.
Lets you choose an extrusion type.
Lets you define an extrusion in which the front of
the object is larger than the back.
Lets you choose the direction of the drop-shadow
feathering.
A type of fountain fill that shows a progression
of colors in a series of concentric squares that radiate from
the center of the object outward.
Lets you choose the start color of your fountain
fill.
Lets you choose the end color of your fountain fill.
Opens the Interactive Tool flyout, which contains
the Blend tool, Distortion tool, Envelope tool, Extrude tool,
Drop Shadow tool, and Contour tool.
Lets you extrude objects by dragging over them.
Lets you apply uniform, fountain, texture, and pattern
fills to objects.
Lets you apply texture fills to objects.
Lets you apply uniform, fountain, pattern, or texture
transparencies to objects.
Lets you draw polygons, stars, and polygons as stars
by dragging the mouse.
Lets you specify whether the shape is a polygon or
a star.
Lets you remove the outline from the selected object.
Lets you split an object in two, reshape an object
by redrawing its path, or create subpaths in an object.
Lets you apply a distortion to an object by dragging
over it. The distortion types are Push and Pull, Zipper, and Twister.
Lets you apply a Twister distortion to an object
by dragging over it.
Lets you position a selected object's distortion
effect at the exact center of the object.
Lets you blend two objects by dragging the mouse
from one object to the other.
Lets you apply envelopes to objects by dragging special
nodes or by applying preset envelopes.
Lets you create drop shadows for objects.