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Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Working with multiple pages
Adobe® Illustrator® CS2 is a single-page-per-document tool. So what do you do with your multipage FreeHand® files that you’d like to migrate to Illustrator? Watch these short video tutorials from the Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator series to learn how you can simulate the ability to work with multipage files in Illustrator. In these short video tutorials, you’ll learn about:
- Setting up page tiling
- Creating a multipage PDF
- Exploring other alternatives
To follow along with the tutorials, download the multiplepages.zip file.
Setting up page tiling
Even though Illustrator doesn’t support multi-page files, you can simulate multiple pages by setting up page tiling. Watch this short video tutorial to learn how to split a large artboard into several smaller tiles.
Watch the video (7:01 minutes)
Creating a multipage PDF
After you’ve set up page titling in your Illustrator document, it’s easy to print the document to a multipage Adobe PDF file. In this short video tutorial, learn the different options you have when creating multipage PDF files.
Watch the video (2:54 minutes)
Exploring other alternatives
For other options of using your Illustrator files in multipage format, check out Illustrator’s sister application, Adobe InDesign®. In this short video tutorial, Mordy Golding shows you how to use Illustrator and InDesign in tandem to create multipage layouts.
Watch the video (4:16 minutes)
Where to go from here
For more information about Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator, check out the following resources:
- Adobe Illustrator CS2: FreeHand to Illustrator migration guide (PDF, 6.5M)by the experts at Adobe
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Getting started, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Migrating exisiting content, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Basic object editing, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Working with text, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Advanced object editing, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Live Trace and Live Paint, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Enhancing creativity, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Enhancing productivity, by Mordy Golding
About the authors
Mordy Golding has been a production artist for print and the web for many years, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist. At Adobe, he was the product manager for Illustrator 10 and Illustrator CS. A popular presenter at Macworld, Photoshop World and other worldwide events, Mordy is also the author of several books, including SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color, and SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours. In 2003, Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ. Currently he serves as the founder of DesignResponsibly.com, teaching designers and printers how to successfully adopt today's new technology. Mordy is also the author of the Illustrator CS2 and Flash 8 Integration video training title published by lynda.com.
Excerpted from “Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator with: Mordy Golding” © 2006. Used with the permission of lynda.com. To view the full-length video-based tutorial series, please visit www.lynda.com.
