Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

Adobe Illustrator provides two different startup files: a startup file for the CMYK color 
mode and a startup file for the RGB color mode. When you create a new document, you 
are asked to choose a color mode for the new document. Depending on the startup file 
you choose (CMYK or RGB), your new document will contain the default settings for that 
particular startup file: brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, and styles. The startup files 
are called Adobe Illustrator Startup_CMYK and Adobe Illustrator Startup_RGB, respec-
tively, and are found in the Plug-ins folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder. 

You can create a custom startup file that defines the contents of the Swatches palette by 
default, including any custom color libraries that you want to appear in the Swatches 
palette. In this way, you can have easy access to the patterns, gradients, brushes, graph 
designs, colors, and color libraries that you use most frequently. By adding these elements 
to one or both of the startup files, you make them available in every new Adobe Illustrator 
file you create. 

In addition, any files you create have the same Document Setup and Page Setup settings 
as those found in the CMYK or RGB startup files, and they use the same zoom level, 
window size, viewing preferences, and scroll position as that of the startup file when it was 
last saved.

1 Make a backup copy of the current default startup file, Adobe Illustrator Startup_CMYK 
or Adobe Illustrator Startup_RGB, and then save the backup file outside of the Plug-ins 
folder. This action saves the original startup file in case you need it again. The startup files 
are located in the Plug-ins folder in the Adobe Illustrator application folder.

2 Open one of the default startup files (either CMYK or RGB, depending on which type of 
document you intend to use) as a template for the custom startup file. This file contains 
squares filled with the default colors, patterns, and gradients available in the Swatches 
palette.

3 Delete any existing colors, patterns, and gradients you don’t want to retain. Note that 
you must delete them from their respective palettes as well as from the artwork in the 
startup file.

4 Add new paint style attributes to the startup file as follows:

Create any colors, patterns, and gradients you want. You can also import swatches using 

the Swatch Libraries command and then move the swatches you want in the startup 
file into the default Swatches palette. (See 

Save any graph designs that you want available in your files using the Graph Design 

dialog box. As with the new paint style attributes, add the graphs to the artwork in the 
startup file so you can see and refer to the graphs later if necessary.

5 Select the options you want as default settings in the Print Setup (Windows), Page 
Setup (Mac OS), and Document Setup dialog boxes, as well as the view preferences, the 
ruler origins, and the page origins.