{"id":45,"date":"2022-07-04T23:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T03:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2023-02-05T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:36:00","slug":"tips-on-keeping-adobe-illustrator-files-tidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/04\/tips-on-keeping-adobe-illustrator-files-tidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips On Keeping Adobe Illustrator Files Tidy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is some general advice for keeping .ai source files lightweight and always ready for exporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An &#8220;empty&#8221; .ai file weighs about 300KB+ because of some default dependencies that you are not likely to need. Get rid of the unnecessary bloat and trim it down to 50KB by quickly going<em> Select All Unused <\/em>and <em>Delete<\/em> on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Graphic Styles<\/li><li>Symbols<\/li><li>Brushes<\/li><li>Swatches<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1024x808.png\" alt=\"Brushes &gt; Select All Unused\" class=\"wp-image-46\" width=\"512\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1024x808.png 1024w, https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-768x606.png 768w, https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some general advice for keeping .ai source files lightweight and always ready for exporting. An &#8220;empty&#8221; .ai file<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/04\/tips-on-keeping-adobe-illustrator-files-tidy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tips On Keeping Adobe Illustrator Files Tidy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-illustrator","tag-uidesign"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeklystrips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}