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Packaging Illustrator files - Illustrator Tutorial

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Packaging Illustrator files

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- [Instructor] Illustrator has a package feature and if you've ever used InDesign, you'll be familiar with that idea, or thinking about it, After Effects has exactly the same thing. It's a way that you can bring everything together into one place so it's portable, either for archiving or maybe to send to a customer or another department, whoever actually needs it or has requested it. So the file that I have here has another Illustrator document placed inside of it, which is a great way by the way, to work efficiently. And otherwise it's pretty much clean. But what I'm going to do is go to the file menu, and by the way, by clean I mean there's not too many things like fonts and all of that stuff to bundle here 'cause these are outlined. So file and package. What I then need to do is to determine where this is going to go. So what I think I'm going to do is drop that inside of this folder. I'll remove it by the time you get it. Okay, call it navzoom folder. Okay, copy all of the links and all of that stuff in there. I'll package that. It gives me a warning about font software. Okay, so I'll just accept that. Of course you have to look into that. It's very, very important. And if I just have a look at the package, if I just bring that onto the screen, you can see here's the actual file. Here's a report to tell me what was packaged, and here is the one and only link inside of that file. So there you go. If you need to send something across to a customer and you want to be assured that everything is there or you want to archive a piece of work, you now know there's tool to help you do it in Illustrator.

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