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At work I've been tasked with maintaining a style guide (pdf) for our web site, eg buttons look like this, page layout in this format etc - so that our devs don't go off on some weird tangent.
Is there a way I can define a template (might not be the right word for it) for a button, that could be used on multiple screens and then when they change their mind what the button looks like I can update the template and then the changes automatically propagate through the other screens so that I then don't have to go through each screen and manually update each button.
I'm a bit new to Illustrator but this the format the design company have given us.
What you've just described sounds like a style sheet.
Tons of CSS (cascading style sheet) resources on t'internet.
J
what ffej said
Set up a style sheet. In your windows pull down the 'graphic style' menu's and set it up in that. Then you can just apply the style with one click, and edit it to apply to the lot
Ok, so a Graphic Style gives me a default that I can click on an object and apply that style to it. Fine with that.
Is there anyway to automatically update the objects that have had that style applied so that if I change that graphic style it will automatically update all the objects without the need to go through and select each one that I want to apply the new style to.
If I was doing this in code it's the equivalent of creating a function() so that if I change that function the change would apply to anywhere I call the function from.
ffej - I know css is used for defining the style in the actual web pages - this is for a separate doc that will be used against our web pages + other windows based applications. Or does Adobe Illustrator provide a clever way of editing the css rather than notepad?