this is a quick video teach you how to
create
a pie chart in Adobe Illustrator. Now I
happen to be working in
illustrator 5.0; you may be at 5.5 or
perhaps an earlier version.
Don't worry the principles are the same.
Begin by
creating a new file
I'm going to name this one Pie Chart 1.
Notice I come up with a new document.
I look over at my toolbar and as I look down
my toolbar
I find a bar graph.
Double-click the bar graph and it opens up
a new window with a series of different
graph types. I happened to want the pie
chart.
I choose it. Tell it okay. Notice my
cursor changes from the arrowhead
to the cross hairs, This will outline the
box
for my pie chart. I want to constrain
this to a perfect square so I'll hold down my
shift key
and draw a box.
Notice I now i have a pie chart with one
piece of data in it.
Next to it is another chart in which
I will actually enter the data itself.
I'm going to make up some quick numbers
here
by typing in.
Notice each time I finish typing I
will click on the box
next to it. That way I know I've entered the data.
And one more.
I now have four individual data points.
Simply click the checkbox
and I have a basic pie chart. Now
chances are you don't want your pie
chart to be black and white.
So you would want to add
a color. Notice my swatch palette over
here happens to be all RGB colors and I
want
a Pantone Color, a PMS color. Now
 let's say for instance your
Pantone colors aren't open.
I happen to know that in 5.0, I can open
my swatch library by hitting the drop-down
arrow,
going up to my color books, which is where
these happen to be stored,
I go down to Pantone solid coated.
And it opens up my library of Pantone colors
in solid coated.
Now here's the variety of different colors,
chances are what if yours is in there.
I'm going to choose this one, which is
129,
Add it to my swatch library and just so I
don't make a mistake here I'm going to pull in
one,
drag over the color here
and I know selected
this section to be a PMS 129. Just so I
don't make a mistake
inadvertently grab an RGB color, I want to get rid of everything I don't need
hit my drop down arrow select all of my used colors. Hit my trash can
which deletes the swatches. Yes I'd like
to get rid of them.
And for some reason I'm hanging on to a
couple other colors I don't want. I'll
get rid of those
as well. There's a duplicate black
that I don't need and there's this
orange.
so now I have
only the colors black-white and
PMS 129. I'll drag my PMs 129 in.
I want to drag my black in.
You may not be able to do this in
earlier versions. You may have to
select your selection tool up here,
click on a section and then click a
color. But the principles again are
basically the same.
This is a little coarse, 
all black and bright gold. I want to tone
it down a little bit.
And the way I'll do that is I will choose
the hollow a row up here;
click off. Click a section.
Notice my tints have changed.
This could be slightly different again in
the version you use, but I can use my
slider bar,
change this to 40 percent.
I could, also, click a section.
Instead of using the slider bar I can actually type in my number twenty percent
And I think I'd like to tone down the
yellow, say bring that down to 70
percent.
and notice I have a simple pie chart.
It happens to be bordered in black.
It's all ready to go. If I happened to,
say I need to exaggerate or want to
exaggerate that little more
I could choose my chart and
increase my stroke. Darkens up that
little bit.
And now simply save it.
And that means I can go back, now having
saved it as an Adobe Illustrator file, I
can go back and work with it
anytime I need to. Say the superintendent
says oh you made a mistake
and we need to change that the data. I
can go back and
choose one of the area's. Change the data.
Once I have
where I'm sure I want it, I tend to
save it now as -
I need to click off the boxes. I'm going to do a file "save as"
Adobe EPS
Illustrator EPS rather. That will enable
me
to import it directly into by Adobe
InDesign file.
And there you have a very simple
pie chart in Adobe Illustrator.
