How do we do freehand things in illustrator

[FFH Mark]

[Monika Gause]

I have published a couple of videos:

Using "Draw Inside":
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/drawinside.mov

Creating stars with rounded points:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/star ... spokes.mov

Selecting objects behind others and working with the selected objects:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/selectbehind.mov

Faking "live forms" (at least some of them):
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/liveforms.mov

Path text:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/pathtext.mov

working with the selection tools:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/select.mov

Gradient on live text:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/img/tut/gradientontext.mov

[FFH Mark]

[Bernie]

I use insert path in Freehand for creating a choke. I'm a screen Printer & need to choke an underbase so that the top colors hide the base. So simple in FH so does ai have anthing similiar?

[Monika Gause]

Object > Path > Offset path
Enter a negative value

[koehler]

Can someone explain what a "choke" is?

[Bertrude]

I believe Bernie is referring to the trapping - making the outer edge of an overlaying object a bit larger to ensure it fully prints over an underlaying colour or area.

That's probably not the best description so here you go...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_(printing)