Illustrator lecture 1: how to use Adobe Illustrator with raster maps? - PowerPoint Presentation

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Illustrator lecture 1:how to use Adobe Illustrator with raster maps?

WAT-E2090 Water and people

Matlab

Open demo1.mlx (available in MyCourses)

Change current folder to your own one

Run the whole demo1.mlx

You can run whole section in where your cursor is, by pressing ‘Run and advance’ button in toolbar

2. Open two last figures in a new window (see below)

1. Run the script to produce the figures

Figures in separate windows

Save figures

Select figure with maps

Select File – Save as…

Save it as

png

file (

maps.png

)Select figure with colorbarSelect File – Save as…

Save it as

eps

file (colorbar.eps)

Open Adobe Illustrator

Programme is available in MyCourses listed computer rooms

Open

colorbar.eps

Remove clipping mask, grouping,

Matlab, excel and other

programmes

produce unnecessary masks and grouping to vector files. It is advisable to remove those before starting to work with the figure. Do as follows:

Do following commands from

menubar

Select – All

Object – UngroupObject – Clipping mask – release

Object – Compound path – release

Delete masks

After you have released the masks, you can delete them by selecting the white areas and pressing delete (the A4 page remaining is the art board and you cannot delete that)

Place map file

From

menubar

select

File – Place, and find the

maps.png

The maps now appear to the art board

Create new layer to maps

Make sure that the layers are visible in a small window (from

menubar

select Window – Layers)

Create new layer by clicking small icon in Layer window:

Move maps to new layer

Select new layer from the list of layers

Right mouse click on the maps figure

Select Arrange – Send to current layer…

Drag the new layer in Layer window below the old one, so the

colorbar

comes on top of maps

Reshape figures

You can make the maps smaller to fit to art board by dragging from the corner of it. To retain the ratios, keep shift key pressed down

Select all the objects within

colorbar

Resize font by opening font window (Window – Type – Character) to 14

You can scale then

colorbar

too (make sure that all the objects are selected within it)

Adding titles etc

Add new layer for the text

Select Text tool from the left toolbar

Point it to place in which you want to add text

Add titles

etc

You can align text boxes with align tools (when you select multiple objects, they appear at the top toolbar)

Adjust art board

By clicking art board symbol in left toolbar, you can adjust it to fit into the figure content

Export figure

Once you are happy on your figure, you can export it as

png

, for example, to be used in a document

File – Export…

To crop the exported figure to art board, you can tick the Use

artboards

option