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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
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Swatches palette
A.
Spot color
B.
Global color
C.
Show All Swatches button
D.
Show Color Swatches button
E.
Show Gradient Swatches button
F.
Show
Pattern Swatches button
G.
New Swatch button
H.
Fill or stroke of None
I.
Registration swatch (prints on all plates)
J.
CMYK symbol (when
document is open in CMYK mode)
K.
RGB symbol (when document is open in RGB mode)
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To display the palette, choose Window > Swatches.
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To change the display of swatches, select a view option from the Swatches palette menu: Small Thumbnail View,
Large Thumbnail View, or List View.
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To show a specific type of swatch and hide all other swatches, click one of the following buttons: Show Color
Swatches
, Show Gradient Swatches
, or Show Pattern Swatches
.
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To change the order of swatches, select a sort option from the Swatches palette menu: Sort By Name or Sort By
Kind.
You can also drag a swatch to change its location.
To select a swatch by name, select Show Find Field from the Swatches palette menu. Then type the first letter or letters
of the swatch’s name in the Find text box at the top of the palette. You can also use this method to select a PANTONE
swatch by entering the PANTONE number.
See also
“To work with palettes” on page 31
About process colors
A process color is printed using a combination of the four standard process inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black
(CMYK). Use process colors when a job requires so many colors that using individual spot inks would be expensive
or impractical, such as when printing color photographs.
Keep the following guidelines in mind when specifying a process color:
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For best results in a printed document, specify process colors using CMYK values printed in process-color
reference charts, such as those available from a commercial printer.
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Illustrator lets you specify a process color as either global or non-global. Global process colors remain linked to a
swatch in the Swatches palette, so that if you modify the swatch of a global process color, all objects using that color
are updated. Non-global process colors do not automatically update throughout the document when the color is
edited. Process colors are non-global by default.
Note:
Global and non-global process colors only affect how a particular color is applied to objects, never how colors
separate or behave when you move them between applications.