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Chapter 1 ✦ Learning the Illustrator Interface
✦ Status Bar: Along the lower left edge of the window is an area that displays
information about the current state of the selected tool.
Figure 1-1: Illustrator includes many different user interface elements.
Working in the Document Window
The document window is where you perform all your work. It contains two main
elements: the artboard and the page. The page (sometimes referred to as the
pasteboard) is always centered in the artboard, as shown in Figure 1-2 and all the
palettes have been closed in order to make the full document window visible. You
can move the printable area represented by the dashed lines using the Page tool,
which is explained later in this section.
PalettesMenus
Toolbox Document windowStatus bar
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