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Part I ✦ Illustrator Basics
Who’s zoomin’ who?
The most basic navigational concept in Illustrator is the ability to zoom to different
magnification levels. Illustrator’s magnification levels work like a magnifying glass.
In the real world, you use a magnifying glass to see details that aren’t readily visible
without it. In the Illustrator world, you use the different magnification levels to see
details that aren’t readily visible at the 100-percent view.
Changing the magnification levels of Illustrator does not affect the illustration itself.
If you zoom in to 200 percent and print, the illustration will still print at the same
size as it would if the view were 100 percent. It will not print twice as large. Figure 1-12
shows the same Illustrator document at 100 and 200 percent magnification.
Figure 1-12: An Illustrator document at 100 percent (left) and 200 percent (right)
magnifications
In Illustrator, 100 percent magnification means that the artwork you see on the
screen has the same physical dimensions it will have when it prints. If you were
to put a printout next to the onscreen image at 100 percent magnification, it
would appear to be exactly the same size, depending on your monitor resolution
(the higher the resolution, the smaller the document will look onscreen). If you’re
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