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Chapter 1 ✦ Learning the Illustrator Interface
To use the Hand tool, select it from the Hand tool slot in the toolbox.
To quickly access the Hand tool, press H, or press and hold the spacebar. Clicking
and dragging the page moves the document around inside the document window
while the spacebar is held down. If you release the spacebar, then you return to
the previous tool. This works for all tools, but the Type tool works a little differently.
If you’re currently using the Type tool in a text area, press Ô+spacebar [Ctrl+space-
bar] to access the Zoom tool, and release Ô [Ctrl] while keeping the spacebar
pressed to gain access to the Hand tool.
When you click in the document, be sure to click the side that you want to see.
Clicking at the top of the document and dragging down enables you to scroll down
through almost an entire document at a height of one window. Clicking in the center
and dragging enables you to scroll through only half a window’s size at a time. If the
window of the document does not take up the entire screen space, you can continue
to drag right off the window into the empty screen space. Just be sure to click first
within the document that you want to scroll.
Be warned that Illustrator doesn’t include support for a scrolling mouse except in
Mac OS X. A scrolling mouse includes a wheel button in between the two buttons
(if it’s a two-button mouse typical with Windows) that you can use to quickly scroll
around a page. The scrolling wheel has no effect on an Illustrator document. We
can hope that Adobe will support this type of mouse in the future. Mac OS X
includes support for the scrolling mouse as part of the operating system.
The best thing about the Hand tool is that it works live. As you drag, the document
moves under “your Hand.” If you don’t like where it is going you can drag it back,
still live. The second best thing is that accessing it requires only one keystroke, a
press of the spacebar.
You cannot use Undo to reverse scrolling that you have done with the scroll bars
and the Hand tool.
Scrolling with the Navigator palette
Use the red viewing rectangle in the Navigator palette to scroll quickly to another
location within a document. Clicking and dragging within the red rectangle moves
the viewing area around “live,” whereas clicking outside the rectangle “snaps” the
view to a new location.
The red rectangle can be changed to another color by choosing the Palette
Options in the Navigator palette pop-up menu.
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