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Often when using Illustrator you need to create a PDF copy of your illustration. You may need to share it with colleagues or a customer, perhaps for their input. The resulting PDF file can be very big and difficult to e-mail. You could of course use Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or similar. But you can also reduce the size of the PDF substantially - here's how:

1. Open your Illustrator .ai file (always keep this file safe, it's your master file)
2. Click File | Save a Copy
3. Change 'Save as Type' to Adobe PDF
4. Click Save
5. Change 'Adobe PDF Preset' to Smallest File Size
6. Click Save PDF

The Smallest File Size PDF will be great for on-screen viewing. However, for printing the quality will NOT be perfect. Change it back to the Default setting if you want high quality for printing.

In Adobe Illustrator CS5, if you accidentally created an object in the wrong layer, it is easy to move it:

In Adobe Illustrator CS5, there are often times when you need to copy an object and reflect it (as if its in a mirror). For example, if you are drawing a face then often you need it to have symmetrical features - you might draw one eye and want to duplicate it and flip it to make the second eye. The following steps will help you do this: