Chapter 7. Controlling Illustrator Through Preferences 11:03

  • Preferences make the program yours
    • More efficient
    • Faster because of hardware
    • Perfect your workflow
    • Change per workflow
  • Random valuable settings follow
  • Preferences key: Command-K
  • General
    • Keyboard increment
      • Arrow key moves by one increment
      • Shift-arrow moves by ten increments
        • Important for symbol placement on keycaps
      • Set to 0.1mm
    • Constraint angle sets the axis on which your tools draw
    • Precise Cursors sets default between gross and fine selection cursor
      • Hold caps-lock to access tool via hold-and-release
    • Scale Stroke and Effects controls whether or not effects resized when you resize the object with drag-and-resize
  • Sync Settings
    • Not on my box
    • Synchronizes between multiple boxes
    • Settings
      • How do we reset all of them?
        • Via here
        • Delete the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file, it will be regenerated on startup
      • Can we define different settings profiles?
        • Seemingly not
        • Could use Git
  • Units
    • Configured with: Millimeters
    • For everything
    • Identify Objects By: XML ID
      • Might make it easier to work with Inkscape/XML tools?
  • Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks
    • Can speed up image manipulation by dividing load between disks
    • Depends on disk speed
  • User Interface
    • Brightness themes
    • Custom: 64%
    • Tabs and not-auto collapse are good

Chapter 4. 0104 Top Ten Hits From Andy 7:49

  • Presenter’s name is Andy
  • Shares his favorite ten features
  • These are all new ideas so they are introductory for me
  • Context for me is
    • Keyboard templates
    • Logos and icons for just about everything
  • Top ten follows
  • Custom Toolbar
    • Of course, great idea, I only ever use three to give at least for keyboards
  • Pathfinder Options
    • Merge multiple simple objects into a single object
  • The Width Tool
    • Increase the width of a object interactively
    • Resize multiple parts
  • Rule Guides
    • Make guides
    • Is this for symbol layout on keycaps?
  • Duplicate Last Function
    • Nice for symbol placement
    • Store functions for symbol placement algorithm?
  • Gradient Mesh
    • Create multi-dimensional objects
  • Touch Type Tool
    • Modify individual characters as a unique object while remaining part of the original text
  • Appearance Panel
    • Always include this
    • Single panel for every aspect of the object
    • Is this where layers go?
  • Image Trace
    • Automatically convert an image to an object
  • Live Paint
    • Bucket fill for objects?
  • Look forward to my top-ten

Chapter 3. How You Will Learn And Working Files 3:53

  • Teacher shares his philosophy+strategy for learning followed by detailed advice on implementation
    • Discipline+perseverance+self-control
    • Great working files
  • Attitude is everything
  • Great recording quality
    • Speedy
  • Fonts are easy to read
  • Brown and yellow theme
  • Must follow lectures in order
    • Must grok before moving ahead
  • Bring your own goals into the training
    • Great reminder!

The Fifteen Questions That You Must Answer In Your Org Mode Literate Programming Configuration

My configuration results in an environment where you can only evaluate code within the document and never during export or tangling. That way it is easier to understand what happens when.

Code is only ever evaluated when you execute the document. The results of execution are stored within the document. That is my workflow.

Knitr in comparison does the opposite only evaluating code during export.

Here is the easiest way to make sense of what happens when resulting in what:

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