Operation Manual
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USING ILLUSTRATOR
Workspace
Last updated 11/8/2011
“Specify curly or straight quotes” on page 329
“Creating superscripts or subscripts” on page 329
About print tiling
By default, Illustrator prints each artboard on a single sheet of paper. However, if the artwork is larger than the page
sizes available on your printer, you can print onto multiple sheets of paper.
Dividing an artboard to fit a printer’s available page sizes is called tiling. You can choose a tiling option in the General
section of the Print dialog box. To view the print tiling boundaries on the artboard, choose View
> Show Print Tiling.
Artboard divided into multiple page tiles
When you divide the artboard into multiple tiles, the pages are numbered from left to right and from top to bottom,
starting with page 1. These page numbers appear on-screen for your reference only; they do not print. The numbers
enable you to print all of the pages in the file or specify particular pages to print.
More Help topics
“Change the page size and orientation” on page 420
“Tile artwork on multiple pages” on page 419
Zoom in or out
There are several ways to zoom in or out of artwork.
• Select the Zoom tool . The pointer becomes a magnifying glass with a plus sign in its center. Click in the center
of the area that you want to magnify, or hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click in the center of
the area that you want to reduce. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the previous preset percentage.
• Select the Zoom tool and drag a dotted rectangle, called a marquee, around the area you want to magnify. To move
the marquee around the artwork, hold down the spacebar, and continue dragging to move the marquee to a new
location.
• Choose View > Zoom In or View > Zoom Out. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the next preset
percentage.
• Set the zoom level at the lower-left corner of the main window or in the Navigator panel.
• To display a file at 100%, choose View > Actual Size, or double-click the Zoom tool.
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To fill the window with the selected artboard, choose View > Fit Artboard In Window, or double-click the Hand tool.