Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach you the basics of Illustrator 9. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you explaining how to use the program. Covering both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 9 covers the following topics: the interface, tools, and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections; Bezier paths; and masks, transformations and color, and more.

This step-by-step tutorial uses a friendly, conversational, noncondescending approach to teaching readers the basics of Illustrator 9. Covering both Macintosh and Windows platforms, this book covers the following topics: the interface, tools and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections, and more.

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will get up to speed on the basics of creating and editing computer graphics with Adobe Illustrator. Using a straightforword, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the fundamentals of Illustrator from the ground up.

Annotation An easy-to-follow tutorial that introduces developers, programmers, and designers to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Micah Laaker is the art director of a leading New York Web development firm that implemented Battlebots.com, the first commercial application of SVG. Distribution of the Adobe SVG Viewer is expected to exceed 50 million by the end of 2001. Provides a clear introduction to SVG, a technology that is set to revolutionize the way graphics function on the Web. Sams Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours provides a thorough understanding of the technology, complete with working examples and practical answers to common development questions. The book focuses on how to create imagery in SVG for static and dynamic graphics. Micah Laaker is the art director of Iguana Studios, Inc., a leading New York City-based creative digital services firm. Iguana received a contract from Adobe Systems to create the first commercial application of SVG (Battlebots.com). Laaker and Iguana have won numerous awards for design and Web development, including the 2000 Web Marketing Association Award. He has lectured on new media topics at New York's Fordham University and serves as a judge of Web advertising for the annual New York Festivals Award committee. His corporate and entertainment clients have included Disney Channel, Sprint PCS, Lockheed Martin, and Adobe Systems.

This manual shows what can be done with XML, while also teaching where the technology is headed. It includes topics like displaying XML files in HTML files, performing queries in XSL and building an online store.

Updated and revised, this bestselling tutorial is a clearly written, well-organized introduction to Flash and gives the beginner an overview of the application's newest version.

This book is a complete reference for using and developing with Crystal Reports, and teaches all of the basics, as well as teach how to integrate Crystal Reports with key development languages and the use of web reporting. It gives readers a complete reference book that has been unavailable in the marketplace to date.