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| AI | Adobe Illustrator |
| Anchor point | basic component of paths, which appear at the start and end of every path or where it changes direction |
| Area Type | uses the boundaries of an area created by dragging a marquee with the type tool to control the flow of text |
| Artboard | the area of the illustration that contains the printable part of your work.b)Objects – any shape, image, or text that can be moved, scaled, or edited |
| Bezier | a curved segment of a path which uses handles to control the shape of the curve. |
| Closed path | a continuous path that has no beginning or end, for example a circle or rectangle. |
| Direct Selection Tool | selects individual anchor points or paths in order to edit individual pieces of an object |
| Divide | separates the selected shapes in individual parts. |
| Drawing | using shapes or other tools such as the pen or pencil to simulate the experience of drawing on paper. |
| Easily editable | since each vector is made up of separate and distinct objects, each can be edited independently at any time. |
| Fill | to put a color, gradient, or pattern into an object |
| Gradients | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another. |
| Image Trace | a tool in a vector program will take a raster image or scanned drawing and automatically convert it to paths, based on selected settings. |
| Lines | an open ended path with two anchor points, which included straight, beziers, and spirals. |
| Line segment | part of a line that has an anchor point on each end. |
| Path | made up of one or more line segments, connected by two or more anchor points or nodes. |
| Meta graphic | graphic formats that can contain both vector and raster data. |
| Minus Back | subtracts the bottom shape from the top shape |
| Minus Front | subtracts the top shape from the bottom most shape. |
| Open path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same, for example a straight or curved line. |
| Pathfinder | a tool that contains four shape options and six pathfinder options that allow you combine multiple objects in a variety to way to create complex shapes. |
| Patterns | a repeated (tiled) decorative design |
| Pen Tool | it uses anchor points and paths to allow you to create straight lines, Bezier lines (curved), and shapes in a countless amount of combinations |
| Point Type | a line of text that begins at the point that you click, which expands as you type. |
| Scalable | able to change size easily without loss of quality. |
| Selection Tool | selects an object or a group of objects. |
| Shapes | geometric based tools that allow you to create primitive shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, and polygons. |
| Smart Guides | guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignment with existing objects. |
| Stacking Order | the order of how objects are arranged on the artboard, in front of or behind each other. |
| Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path, such as the color, weight, or style, which is not the same as a path as a path can have no stroke as an option. |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| Swatches | named colors, tints, gradients and patterns. |
| Text Wrap | controls how area text flows over or around objects and images |
| Transformations | scaling, rotation, shearing (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance. |
| Type on Path | Path allows you to attach text to an open or closed path. |
| Unite | combines all selected shapes into one shape |
| Vector Effects | commands that can be applied to an object, group, or layer to change its characteristics, such as distort and transform, warp, and stylize |
| Vector Graphics | graphics that are based on mathematical formulas and are comprised of paths connected by anchor points that define lines, shapes, and curves |
| WMF | Windows Metafile |
| .ai | An AI file is a drawing created with Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editing program. It is composed of paths connected by points, rather than bitmap image data. |
