I had so much trouble with this. I am so tired and frustrated from working on AI. The VM or Adobe kept freezing up and it takes so long to reboot and get back on the system.
This map is a Robinson Projection rotated so the central meridian is -100 to put USA in the middle of the map. I could not get the text labels on the continents. It kept highlighting the wrong countries. I never tried to split the continents. I had so much trouble with the select, line, pencil tools. I could not get the text to line up in the legend. I did finally get some arrows but even following the directions, the video and instructions from 2 books, I could not get them to work like I know they can. I never was able to get the size into the legend. I used 50 pt for the largest and used the formula in the lab and got .25 for the smallest width line. I used an exel spreadsheet to do the calculations.
Width of line= (max line width) x (value/Max value)
I had a horrible tiime getting the countinents to change color. Some had open white polygons so I used the blob brush to fill in. I used the lasso but still had adjacenet countries select. I could not get the background to change consistently. I learned to save colors to the color swatch and leared to use shift key to help me highlight (aka select) the bulk of the countries.
I figure I spent 16 hours on this map and still not the way it should be.
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