Adobe illustrator cs4- P18: Good designers have many tools at their disposal. Especially in an environment where most designers have other powerful graphics applications, it can be diffi cult to choose which one to use for a particular task. For example, a designer can apply soft drop shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign—is one application any better than the others for this? | 484 CHAPTER 14 SAVING AND EXPORTING FILES Saving and Exporting Artboards One of the most highly requested features in Illustrator has finally arrived in Illustrator CS4 multiple artboards see Chapter 1 . And just as you can create single files with multiple artboards so can you save and export files with them as well. Choose File Export and choose your desired file format. In the Export dialog box select Use Artboards Figure and specify All or a range of artboards to export. When Range is selected Illustrator will export separate files for each artboard specified. File names will be appended with a 01 02 03 and so on. If the Use Artboards option is not selected and your file contains multiple artboards a single file will be exported with the artboards converted to a single conjoined artboard Figure . Figure Choose to export or not export multiple artboards. Figure Illustrator then creates a separate file from each artboard left or a single file from multiple artboards right . With the Save and Save As commands the Use Artboards option is automatically selected for the native Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Template PDF SVG and SVGZ file formats. You have the option of selecting or not selecting the option with the EPS and FXG file formats. EXPORTING FILES FROM ILLUSTRATOR 485 The Bitmap .bmp Format Bitmaps are raster-based files and are often used in older computer applications. The bitmap format is also used by some applications for displaying logos or bar codes. When exporting a bitmap you can choose one of three different color models RGB Grayscale or Bitmap. Bitmap creates a file that contains only black-and-white pixels Figure . Additionally you can specify the resolution for your image and choose whether to antialias the art. Figure Many applications including Illustrator and QuarkXPress allow you to change the color of a bitmap file that uses the Bitmap color model. The Targa .tga Format The Targa file format is a .
