When you use Draw Inside, it creates a quick and easy mask with the shape you have selected. Draw Normal and Draw Behind are pretty self explanatory. You can access these tools at the very bottom of the Tools palette, or by pressing Shift+D to cycle through them. Illustrator provides a couple drawing modes, Draw Normal, Draw Behind and Draw Inside, that are easy to use.
This will convert your strokes to fills, so be careful about using this method if you need to change the thickness of a stroke later. You could also select your graphic and choose Expand Appearance under Object in the menu bar. Now your strokes and effects will scale just fine. To fix this, choose General Preferences under the menu (or use the command+k keyboard shortcut), and make sure the Scale Strokes and Effects checkbox is checked.
In Illustrator, sometimes when you enlarge a graphic with strokes and effects, the strokes and effect do not enlarge proportionally. Placing your file in InDesign and enlarging will keep all the strokes and effects even and looking nice. Illustrator works best for vector are that can be enlarged or reduced without losing any clarity. One reason to export your files from Illustrator as an AI or EPS file is the ability to scale the graphic proportionally. Try not to use Illustrator exclusively for page layout of books and multi-page documents. Export vector art from Illustrator to place into InDesign. Illustrator is a very robust application with many features available, but in printing, it is best to use Illustrator along with InDesign and Photoshop for your page layout. Today, we offer 7 tips that we often use in the electronic prepress department. In a previous post, Illustrator Tips and Shortcuts, we showed you helpful keyboard shortcuts to help speed up your production times.