There's a good chance that anyone who's studied vector-based drawing during the last decade has read an Illustrator Visual QuickStart Guide in one of its many versions. Though this book has become the standard text in many design schools, it has evolved over the years along with the program itself. And with some of the radical changes in Illustrator 10 -- such as live distortion tools, dynamic data-driven graphics, and symbols to create repeating Web graphics and keep file sizes small -- the authors thoroughly revised this popular QuickStart Guide.Illustrator 10 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide includes information on all the latest features, a 24-page color section, and clearly marked locators to both new and improved features that can easily be found by simply flipping through the book. Best of all, it's delivered in a highly readable, entertaining, visual, and easy-to-navigate format. This affordable, task-based book may be the only one users need to create powerful graphics for print or Web.

1. Illustrator Interface Tools. 2. How Illustrator Works. 3. Startup. 4. Views. 5. Objects Basics. 6. Select/Copy. 7. Transform. 8. Reshape. 9. Fill & Stroke. 10. Pen. 11. Layers. 12. Create Type. 13. Style & Edit Type. 14. Acquire. 15. Brushes. 16. Symbols. 17. Combine Paths 18. Gradients. 19. Appearances/Styles. 20. Masks/Transparency. 21. Distort. 22. Filters. 23. Precision Tools. 24. Actions. 25. Preferences. 26. Output/Export. 27. Web. 28. Separations. Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts. Index.