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Now here is why it's a good idea to put the path and the shape a little distance apart. I can select the path with H, there is my curve, select it, go to modify, go to the sub object level and I can manipulate that loft by changing the path. And if they're a little bit separate obviously it's easier to see the path and manipulate it. So a reason to use the get path method is, if you know that you want to manipulate the path, that will leave the path is visible to manipulate. H, I select that loft and delete it. And just to do it the other way, I'll select the path, create, it's already on compound objects, loft and get shape, and click on the shape and it brings the shape over to the path. And this way, it leaves the shape free so that you can manipulate that. So for example, I can go to the modify panel and put a bend on that arc. Put that in the Y axis, it will be a lot more dramatic. So you can see, now I can manipulate the shape and change the loft that way. If you want to have both the shape and the path easily available for manipulation, you can do that by creating the loft on a cloned reference. And I'll show you how that works. First H, select the loft and delete it and I'll just move this over a little bit so these two will be together. H, select both of these, now hold down the shift key and just slide those over, get them a good distance apart and make it a reference. So I'll show you on the H here, I now have arc02 and curve02 and those are cloned references of the original curve and arc. Now I am going to select that second path, go to the create panel, loft, get shape and pick the second shape that creates a loft. Now for example, I can go and select the original arc and you can see from the gizmos, that these are connected. Now for example, I could change that bend and anything I do to the bend is reflected. And in addition, I have the path here as well. You go to the sub-object level on that if I want and changing the path also changes my loft. So that concludes our introduction to lofting. the path also changes my loft. So that concludes our introduction to lofting. , see you've got an in folder and an out folder and if I take my EPS file, drag it into the in folder, let's see here, we'll wait for a few seconds and there we go, it's already distilled it. There is the original EPS file in the out folder and there is our resulting PDF document. And that is Acrobat Distiller, one other thing I would like to point out about Acrobat Distiller, if you were to create a shortcut on your desktop, I didn't successfully create it because the desktop size I'm working on was a little bit too large, but if I did have a shortcut on the desktop, I could create a PDF file just by dragging an EPS or PS file on to the shortcut, similar to what you can do with the actual Acrobat Application.