File Handling Clipboard Panel


File Handling & Clipboard Panel

This preference panel covers settings for how Illustrator handles certain files as well as settings for how art is copied to the clipboard for pasting into other applications (Figure C.15).

Figure C.15. The File Handling & Clipboard Preferences panel allows you to determine how graphics are copied and pasted into other applications.


  • Enable Version Cue. If you own Adobe Creative Suite and are using Version Cue, or if someone in your group owns Version Cue, this option enables you to access a Version Cue Workspace. Version Cue allows you to track historical and alternate versions of files, manage file usage in a multiuser environment, and track PDF review cycles.

    For more information on Version Cue, visit www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/pdfs/understanding_versioncue_cs2.pdf



  • Use Low Resolution Proxy for Linked EPS. When you place-link an EPS file into Illustrator, whether it is a Photoshop EPS or any other generic EPS, the preview that's displayed on your screen is the low-resolution preview that's embedded within the EPS file. When you uncheck this setting, Illustrator parses the EPS file and displays the actual file. This results in a much better looking preview on your screen, but it also slows redraw and increases file size. On a separate note, when you're using the Live Trace feature with placed-linked EPS files, the resolution of the image that Live Trace can detect depends on this setting as well. When the option is checked, Live Trace sees the 72 ppi preview file and traces that. By turning this setting off, Live Trace can detect the full resolution of the file and use it to trace the image.

  • Update Links. When you place-link a file into Illustrator, the Links palette maintains the link information about that file. Because the file is external, you can edit that file easily by using the Edit Original feature, found in either the Links palette or the Control palette. With the default Ask When Modified setting is used, if you edit a linked file outside of Illustrator and return to the Illustrator document, you'll get a dialog box alerting you to the fact that the file was updated, with an option to update the link. Alternatively, you can choose to manually update links yourself through the Links palette, or you can set Illustrator to automatically update all links as they happen.

  • Clipboard on Quit. Today's modern operating systems use an efficient method to copy and paste data using the system's clipboard, called promising. Rather than copy art in a variety of formats to the clipboard (which would take time), applications promise to deliver art when pasted. Then, when you paste the art, the operating system goes back to the application you copied from and gets the data. The problem is, if you've quit the program since you performed the copy function, the operating system can't fulfill its promise. So when you quit an application, it copies whatever was promised to the clipboard (which explains why sometimes it takes a while for an application to actually quit). The Clipboard on Quit preference allows you to determine which file formats are used to copy art to the clipboard when you quit Illustrator. By default, both the PDF and the AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clip Board) options are checked, which gives you the most options. Unless you have a specific reason, we'd suggest that you leave both of these checked at all times. In general, the PDF option supports native transparency and is PDF 1.4 whereas the AICB is flattened data and is PostScript.




Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2
Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2
ISBN: 0321337026
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 147
Authors: Mordy Golding

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