When you try to start a new path from an anchor point of a different path, just clicking the anchor removes it. Instead, the solution is to:
Also, it seems that (at least in Illustrator CC 2019) you can hold down Shift when creating the initial anchor point.
Illustrator has this neat feature that lets you copy (⌘C) any object from your design and paste it (⌘V) as SVG in any text editor. However, configuring how the SVG is generated is a bit obscure:
💡 You only need to do this once, or whenever you want to change the way the SVG gets generated.
To create a viewbox
for the SVG while using the copy/paste trick, you can draw a rectangle behind your artwork to serve this purpose. After pasting the artwork in a text editor, you can just delete the background <rect>
element.
TBD.
Area Type is the text area in Illustrator. You can scale the bounding box and the text inside will reflow — as opposed to point type, which scales like any other shape.
Double-click on the prong that sticks out of the right side of the box.
Double-click on the prong that sticks out of the bottom side of the box to fit the area snugly around the text.
💡 Set this behavior as the default by going to Illustrator → Preferences… → Type and check Auto Size New Area Type.
Selecting a type area and entering a width / height in the Transform pane will stretch the text instead of resizing the text area and reflowing the text. To achieve the latter, use the Direct Selection tool (A) to select just the area and not the text inside. In this state, using the width / height inputs from the Transform pane will scale the text area without distoring the text.
💡 You can also set the area’s size (along with other options) from the Type → Area Type Options… menu item.
Some tools, such as ArchiCAD, can only produce color PDFs in the RGB color space. To convert that to a CMYK file ready for offset printing: