Targeting items for appearance attributes – Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual
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Show or hide additional attributes in the Appearance panel
When an item in the Appearance panel contains additional attributes, a triangle appears to the left of the item’s name.
❖
Click the triangle next to an item’s name.
Reveal additional items in the Appearance panel
When you select items that contain other items, such as a layer or group, the Appearance panel displays a Contents
item.
❖
Double-click the Contents item.
List character attributes for a text object in the Appearance panel
When you select a text object, the panel displays a Characters item.
❖
Double-click the Characters item.
Show or hide thumbnails in the Appearance panel
❖
Choose Show Thumbnail or Hide Thumbnail from the Appearance panel menu.
Specify how appearance attributes are applied to new objects
You can specify whether you want new objects to inherit appearance attributes or have only basic attributes.
•
To apply only a single fill and stroke to new objects, click the New Art Maintains Appearance button
in
the
Appearance panel to change it to the New Art Has Basic Appearance button
, or choose New Art Has Basic
Appearance from the panel menu.
•
To apply all of the current appearance attributes to new objects, click the New Art Has Basic Appearance
button
in the Appearance panel to change it to New Art Maintains Appearance button
, or deselect
New Art Has Basic Appearance from the panel menu.
Targeting items for appearance attributes
Before you can set an appearance attribute or apply a style or an effect to a layer, group, or object, you must target the
item in the Layers panel. Selecting an object or group using any selection method also targets the object or group in
the Layers panel, but layers can only be targeted using the panel.
Shaded target icons in the Layers panel indicate which items contain appearance attributes.
A. Targeting and appearance column B. Selection column C. Group with appearance attributes D. Layer with appearance attributes
E. Object with appearance attributes
A
C
D
E
B