Illustrator lecture 1: how to use Adobe Illustrator with raster maps? Yhd Water and people

Matlab Open demo1.m (available in moodle) Change current folder to your own one

Run the sections until the ‘% better way to visualise….’ You can run whole section in where your cursor is, by pressing ‘Run and advance’ button in toolbar

Modify the code as shown below This way you plot the map and colorbar to two separate figures

Run the script to produce the figures

Save figures Select figure with maps – Select File – Save as… – Save it as png file (maps.png) Select figure with colorbar – Select File – Save as… – Save it as eps file (colorbar.eps)

Open adobe illustrator Programme is available in most of the computer rooms (for some reason it was removed from our computer room at Tietotie 1E but it is now installed there) Open colorbar.eps

Remove clipping mask, grouping, Matlab, excel and other programmes produce unnecessary masks and grouping to vector files. It is advisable to remove those before starting to work with the figure. Do as follows: Do following commands from menubar – Select – All – Object – Ungroup – Object – Clipping mask – release – Object – Compound path – release

Delete masks After you have released the masks, you can delete them by selecting the white areas and pressing delete (the A4 page remaining is the art board and you cannot delete that)

Place map file From menubar select – File – Place, and find the maps.png – The maps now appear to the art board

Create new layer to maps Make sure that the layers are visible in a small window (from menubar select Window – Layers) Create new layer by clicking small icon in Layer window:

Move maps to new layer Select new layer from the list of layers Right mouse click on the maps figure Select Arrange – Send to current layer… Drag the new layer in Layer window below the old one, so the colorbar comes on top of maps

Reshape figures You can make the maps smaller to fit to art board by dragging from the corner of it. To retain the ratios, keep shift key pressed down Select all the objects within colorbar Resize font by opening font window (Window – Type – Character) to 14 You can scale then colorbar too (make sure that all the objects are selected within it)

Adding titles etc Add new layer for the text Select Text tool from the left toolbar Point it to place in which you want to add text Add titles etc You can align text boxes with align tools (when you select multiple objects, they appear at the top toolbar)

Adjust art board By clicking art board symbol in left toolbar, you can adjust it to fit into the figure content

Export figure Once you are happy on your figure, you can export it as png, for example, to be used in a document – File – Export… – To crop the exported figure to art board, you can tick the Use artboards option