Right-click on the gray background of the toolbar and then select 'Show Select & Zoom Tools' - here you can configure which zoom tools show up, and you can also reset the zoom tools. However, selecting the Hand tool should your cursor regardless of whether the zoom tool is shown or not. Drawing Shapes in Preview You can use the pen tool to draw on image and PDFs in Preview. Rough shapes and lines will be converted to smooth and perfect shapes and lines, but you can always choose the freehand drawing instead. You can move, resize and change the properties of. If you are interested in ordering and the product is not offered online, please call 800.MACTOOLS for assistance. With Preview you can adjust the contrast of a PDF, this makes the text sharper and darker, and for scanned files or dubious quality PDF’s this makes them significantly easier to read. The process of increasing contrast and sharpening text in a PDF is made quite simple with Preview app on the Mac, we’ll walk through how to accomplish this.

A few weeks ago I compiled a list of InDesign shortcuts that I use daily and made a A4 printable cheat sheet (You can find it here). Lots of people downloaded it, and asked me if I could make the same thing for Illustrator.

So, here it is: a single A4 printable cheat sheet that you can always have on your desk, ready to be checked. I hope this will help you memorize a few more shortcuts and be even more productive.

Even more, make sure you read this InDesign vs. Illustrator content to find the correct answer to when and why choose one software over the other.

Here are the ready-to-be-printed PDFs with the most important and used shortcuts:

• Download PDF 'Illustrator shortcuts Mac OS'
• Download PDF 'Illustrator shortcuts Windows'

In case you wonder, I made also a Desktop Background with these shortcuts. Here they are:

• Download Desktop Background 'Illustrator shortcuts Mac OS'
• Download Desktop Background 'Illustrator shortcuts Windows'

A full list of Illustrator keyboard shortcuts

Illustrators has so many shortcuts that they didn’t fit into a single A4, so the printable cheat sheet above includes only the ones that I use the most and that I believe are the most important for day to day work.
However, here is also a more exhaustive list, in case I missed your favorites.

Application

Files

Basic Operations

Tools

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Object Editing

View and Navigation

Menu Commands

Text

Others

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Stefano has worked on numerous mid to large–sized InDesign projects for Alstom, DeLonghi, Philips, and many others before starting Redokun in 2015.
As Redokun’s Co-Founder, Stefano spends most of his time helping customers to optimize their InDesign work-flow. He also holds in-house InDesign courses for companies in the Venice, Italy area.