Operation Manual
Viewing artwork
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Specify Document Setup options
About print tiling
Zoom in or out
Change the view area
Navigator panel overview
View artwork as outlines
Use multiple windows and views
Previewing artwork in its final output medium
Specify Document Setup options
At any point you can change your document’s default setup options for units of measure, transparency grid display, background color, and type
settings such as language, quote style, superscript and subscript size, bleeds, and exportability. The Edit Artboards button closes this dialog box
and activates the Artboard tool.
1. Choose File > Document Setup, or click theDocument Setup button in the Control panel. (This button is available when nothing is selected.)
2. Specify options as desired.
3. If you want to edit artboards (for instance, to change from portrait to landscape orientation), click Edit Artboards to enter artboard editing
mode.
The Simulate Colored Paper option is useful if you plan to print the document on colored paper. For example, if you draw a blue object
on a yellow background, the object appears green. The simulation is only performed when the transparency grid is not shown.
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.
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
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