For this particular workflow, multiple JPGs that need a bit of text added at the bottom, I seem to have a choice between a) using drag-and-drop, requiring for each image the tedious restablishment of the text environment I want. Doing this ill make all the thing you want available, especially the font. If you want to add things to a raster image, you would do better to call a new document from the New Document profile you want or have modified to your liking and Place the raster file (embedding it). Why not allow some user control over that? More about this below. When I drag-and-drop a JPG on AI, I get some kind of consistent, if not complete-with-swatches, environment. That said: From a s/w engineering point of view, it doesn't make intuitive sense that there would be this exception case, apparently the only one, in which you can arrive at a new document, ready-to-edit, without a profile established. Why not have a status window display the current profile, or "none" in the case of raster images? That's definitely good to know, though a bit indirect. When AI opens a rester image, no document profile is applied as evidenced by the lack of swatches in the Swatch panel. That's written in neon letters in my brain now. OK, got it, whenever I need a panel, look in Window>. I spend a lot of time away from AI, and it is easy to forget such basics. The path you are looking for is Window>Type>Character Style in the New Dcoument Profile you wish to change. Thanks for your fast, on-target response: is there a way to back-track, to see later from what profile a particular open AI document was derived? But using which profile? None of the disti profiles seem a clear winner.īonus question: I realize that applying a profile is a one-shot deal, applied at the instant when a new document is created, but. AI imports each JPG and places it in a new document. The exception: What if you only access "new document" implicitly - you use drag-and-drop? I need to overlay some text on some JPGs, so I drag-and-drop existing JPG files to the AI dock icon, or the app icon. I managed to find it, but I couldn't reproduce the path. The niggle: It isn't obvious to me how to tell AI to display the panel in which you make the modifications. You can choose one of the disti profiles, modified to your own font selection, or a completely new one you have added. If you open a new AI CC document you see the standard "New Document" dialog which invites you to select a profile. I have a niggle to add, and I think there is at least one exception to these instructions.
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