When I open color function windows and then change the values, it takes a long time to prepare the preview. Can I speed this up?
Due to the realtime methods Illustrator has employed to render certain effects such as Live Trace, Live Paint, live Effect drop shadows, etc., some operations can be time-consuming. To understand the issue of Illustrator’s speed, open the same artwork which contains multiple live Effects (such as the sample files supplied with Illustrator) and try applying standard live Effects such as “Pucker & Bloat” and Roughen. These Effects should take around the same time to render as Phantasm CS will take to perform a color change. To help with certain operations such as Hue/Saturation and Curves where you might perform several level changes before wanting to see a preview is to untick the Preview box. We do recommend that for general use you try to use Illustrator on the fastest possible hardware. This also applies to using the Phantasm CS plugin.
