Operation Manual

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USING ILLUSTRATOR
Workspace
Last updated 11/8/2011
4 Select the Move Artwork with Artboard option to move the artwork whenever the artboards location changes.
Additionally, an artboard within an artboard is treated like a crop area and is moved along with the containing
artboard.
Customize artboard names
Each artboard can now be given a custom name, when in artboard edit mode.
To assign a custom name to an artboard, do the following:
1 Select the Artboard Tool to edit the artboard.
2 Select the artboard and specify the artboard name in the Name box of the Artboard Control Panel.
Alternatively, you can provide a custom name in the Name field of the Artboard Options dialog box. To open the
dialog box, click Artboard Options in the Artboards Panel menu (flyout menu). Click OK to commit the new name
for the chosen artboard.
The new artboard name appears on the upper-left side of the artboard. The custom name also shows up in the
Artboard Navigation field and drop-down next to document’s status area.
If you assign a custom name to artboards, these names are added as suffix to the filename while saving artboard specific
files to all formats.
Enter a custom name for an artboard in the Control panel.
Note: To return to the default name, clear the name of the artboard from the Name field in the Control panel.
9-point referencing
To set reference points for artboards, use the Artboard Options dialog box or the Artboard options in the Control
panel.
This option allows you to hinge a corner or center of an artboard while its size is being changed.
Display artboard rulers, center mark, crosshairs, or safe area
You can choose to display a center mark, cross hairs, video safe markers, and rulers around an artboard. Rulers are
useful when you’re working with art intended for export to video. The numbers on the rulers reflect device-specific
pixels, regardless of the measurement unit specified in preferences. The default Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio
(VPAR) for Illustrator is 1.0 (for square pixels)—this value changes according to the preset you choose either in the
Artboard Options dialog box or the New Document dialog box.
If you’re using nonsquare pixels, the ruler provides for easier device-specific pixel calculations. For example, if you
specify an artboard of 100 x100 Illustrator points, and you want to know the exact size in device-dependent pixels
before exporting the file for use in a NTSC DV Widescreen, you can set the video ruler in Illustrator to use a video ruler
pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 (for wide pixels) and the ruler will reflect the change and display the artboard as 83 x100 device
pixels (100/1.2 = 83.333).