9/10/2023 0 Comments Adobe illustrator artboard mkving![]() So I'll go up to the Edit menu and choose the Undo command which has a standard keyboard shortcut of Control + Z here on a PC or Command + Z on the Mac and that goes ahead and restores our eight original artboards. Now, obviously I don't want that new artboard. And you can confirm this is the case by switching back to the black arrow tool which Illustrator calls the Selection tool and then notice if I click on that number three that its big blue bounding box here is the same size as that new artboard. And those other characters may be taller than the three or they may have descenders such as the bottom of a lowercase G. Now you may look at this and say, how in the world does this new artboard match the size of the three when the three is so much shorter? Well, bear in mind that every character of type is bigger than it appears because it's actually designed to accommodate other characters in this font. And Illustrator is going to automatically size that artboard in order to accommodate its contents. Now, one of the confusing things about this tool when you first start using it, is that clicking with the tool selects a different artboard but if you then click again, say on the three, you're going to create an artboard inside of that artboard. We also have labels so that we know that this guy is artboard three and its neighbor is artboard four and so on. And each time you do, you'll see handles for that specific artboard. Now notice that we're seeing handles around the selected artboard and you can switch to a different artboard just by clicking on it. So the better way to work, assuming that some other tool is selected, is to avoid the Document Setup button and you can safely ignore the Edit Artboards button in the properties panel and just go ahead and switch directly to the Artboard tool in the first place, because this one tool does pretty much everything we're where managing artboards is concerned. What we do have is this Edit Artboards button which also appears in the properties panel but that's pretty deceiving because notice if you click on that button, it closes the dialog box and it switches you to a different tool, this guy right here toward the bottom of the toolbox which is known as the Artboard tool. But otherwise we're not seeing anything in the way of those width or height values and we're not allowed to change how many artboards we have. But in Illustrator, clicking on either one brings up this dialog box right here which allows you to change the bleed values if you like and you can modify your unit of measure. Now in another application, you'd expect this Document Setup button to let you change the quantity and even location of your pages. Now notice when the black arrow is selected up here at the top of the toolbox that we have a Document Setup button both in the horizontal control panel and down here at the bottom of the properties panel. Now you don't usually need to see both of them because they mostly duplicate each other but I want you to have a clear understanding of what's going on. And that way we can see both the very large properties panel on the right side of the screen as well as the more streamlined control panel which is this horizontal strip up here at the top of the screen. Then go ahead and bring up that menu again and choose Reset Essentials Classic. Now, before I go any further, I want you to go up to this workspace option in the top right portion of the screen, and if necessary, choose Essentials Classic from the menu. So with that, I'll go ahead and cancel out here. Well, that's great for creating a new document and it's a pretty traditional approach, but that's not how it works when editing an existing document. And if I were to click on the More Settings button, then I can decide how those artboards are arranged, how many columns we have, the spacing between the artboards and so on. So you may remember from the previous chapter that we went up to the File menu and chose the New command and that gave us the ability not only to change the size of the artboards but to change the number of artboards as well. ![]() Well, artboards inside the Illustrator work very differently than pages inside other programs. So let's say I want to take artboard one right here and I want to move it to a different location here inside this document. And so if Illustrator's way seem bizarre at first, I want them to make perfect sense in the end because this really is a practical and powerful feature. And that's because Illustrator handles artboards differently than I've seen any other program handle just about anything. And I want to warn you up front, especially if you're new to Illustrator, that we're going to take a bit of a slow and winding approach to this topic. In this movie, I'll show you how to move an artboard with and without its contents using the Artboard tool.
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