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| Scalable | able to change size easily without loss of quality |
| Resolution independent | regardless of how much the image is enlarged or reduced, the image definition and quality remain the same |
| Easily editable | since each vector is made up of separate and distinct objects, each can be edited independently at any time. |
| Small file sizes | easily transferred over the Internet and lo ads quickly |
| Artboard | the area of the illustration that contains the printable part of your work. This is what you will see when printed |
| Objects | any shape, image, or text that can be moved, scaled, or edited. |
| Lines | an open ended path with two anchor points, which included straight, beziers, and spirals. o Anchor point – basic component of paths, which appear at the start and end of every path or where it changes direction. |
| 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. |
| Open path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same. straight or curved line |
| Closed path | a continuous path that has no beginning or end, for example a circle or rectangle |
| Shapes | geometric based tools that allow you to create primitive shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, and polygons |
| Transformations | scaling, rotation, shearing (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance |
| Smart Guides | guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignment with existing objects. For example, use smart guides to align objects with the edges or center point |
| Stacking Order | the order of how objects are arranged on the artboard, in front of or behind each other. By default new objects are created at the front of the order |
| Selection tool | selects an object or a group of objects |
| Direct Selection tool | selects individual anchor points or paths in order to edit individual pieces of an object. |
| 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 |
| Fill | to put a color, gradient, or pattern into an object |
| Swatches | named colors, tints, gradients and patterns. f |
