Chapter 14: graphs, Creative cloud charts (preview), A typical cc charts workflow – Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual
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Chapter 14: Graphs
Creative Cloud Charts (Preview)
What is a Technology Preview?
Technology Previews are features and services that are released to the public before they are fully complete as features.
A Preview gives you the opportunity to try out the feature, provide feedback, and help guide the development of the
feature before it ships as final in a later release of Illustrator.
Creative Cloud Charts (CC Charts) — a new Creative Cloud service — allows designers to create compelling charts and
infographics and take them to Illustrator as live objects. You can now use any custom art to represent data values in a
chart's design. Users now have unprecedented control and flexibility on chart elements – they can be stylized and
treated for visual appeal, to create aesthetic charts, without breaking the link to the underlying data.
Important:
The Creative Cloud Charts (Preview) feature is enabled for all US (en_US) and UK (en_GB) Illustrator CC
2015 users.
A typical CC Charts workflow
The CC Charts tool allows you to represent numerical data with custom vector art. You can edit the appearance of a
chart in Illustrator. However, to edit the data and further modify and refine the appearance of the chart, use the
. Here's how a typical workflow looks like:
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Use the CC Charts tool to
rag an available chart from a library in the Libraries panel to the
artboard.
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In Illustrator:
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In the Chart object context menu, click Edit on Creative Cloud. A new browser tab or window is opened.
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In the browser interface:
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