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The Edit Artboards button closes this dialog box and activates the Artboard tool. If you want to edit artboards for example, 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. 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.

You can choose a tiling option in the General section of the Print dialog box. 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. The numbers enable you to print all of the pages in the file or specify particular pages to print. When you zoom in or out while working on artwork, using the Zoom tool or its keyboard shortcuts, Illustrator brings the selected art in the center of the view. If the selection has anchor points or segments, Illustrator also brings those anchor points to the center of the view when you zoom in or out.

As a print designer, you may want to preview your artwork before printing and check how it looks in actual print size. For example, if you open a new artboard of A4 size and click Actual Size , the artboard size is changed to an actual A4 sheet. The actual size works for all resolutions, scale factors, and viewing modes, except for the pixel preview.

If you are using more than one display monitors, the actual size feature will work only on the primary monitor. To do this, perform the following steps:. For more information about how to set up print documents, see Setting up documents for printing.

The colored box in the Navigator called the proxy view area corresponds to the currently viewable area in the illustration window. Thumbnail display of artwork B. Panel menu button C. Zoom box D. Zoom Outbutton E. Proxy preview area F. Zoom slider G. Zoom Inbutton. By default, Adobe Illustrator sets the view so that all artwork is previewed in color.

However, you can choose to display artwork so that only its outlines or paths are visible. Viewing artwork without paint attributes speeds up the time it takes to redraw the screen when working with complex artwork. In Outline mode, linked files are displayed by default as outlined boxes with an X inside. You can view your artwork as outlines in the GPU Preview mode in Illustrator on screens with resolution greater than pixels in width or height.

Viewing artwork in the GPU Outline mode displays smoother paths and speeds up the time it takes to redraw the complex artwork on high-density display screens. You can open multiple windows of a single document at the same time. Each window can have different view settings. Windows You can arrange multiple open windows to suit your needs, using options from the Window menu. Cascade displays windows stacked and descending from the upper-left to the lower-right of the screen; Tile displays windows edge to edge; Arrange Icons organizes minimized windows within the program window.

An alternative to creating multiple windows is creating multiple views. You can create and store up to 25 views for each document. Multiple views can appear at the same time only if multiple windows are opened to display them in. Changing a view alters the current windows, it does not open a new one.

Illustrator provides the following ways to preview how aspects of artwork look when printed or viewed on the web or a mobile device:. Trims the view to the boundaries of the artwork. In this mode, artwork with all non-printing objects on the canvas is hidden, such as grids, guides, and elements extending beyond the edge of the artboard. Any artwork falling outside the artboard is clipped. You can continue to create and edit your artwork in this screen mode.

Highlights areas of the artwork that meet certain criteria for flattening when saved or printed. Anti-aliasing is helpful because screen resolution is relatively limited, but vector artwork is often printed at a high resolution.

In Presentation mode, the active artboard of the current Illustrator document fills the entire screen. In this mode, the application menu, panels, guides, grids, and all selections are hidden.

It is a non-editable mode in which only the artwork on the artboard is displayed. This mode works well for presenting design ideas.

To navigate between the artboards, press the left or the right arrow key to move to the previous or the next artboard, respectively. Alternatively, click anywhere to move to the next artboard. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Adobe Illustrator Features What's New. Buy now. User Guide Cancel. Specify Document Setup options. This button is available when nothing is selected. Specify options as desired.

About print tiling. Zoom in or out the artwork. 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 macOS and click in the center of the area that you want to reduce. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the previous preset percentage. Select the Zoom tool and drag a dotted rectangle, called a marquee , around the area you want to magnify.

To move the marquee around the artwork, hold down the spacebar, and continue dragging to move the marquee to a new location. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the next preset percentage. Set the zoom level at the lower-left corner of the main window or in the Navigator panel.

Actual size preview. Change the view area. You can bring a different area of the artboard into view by doing any of the following:. In the Navigator panel, click the area of the thumbnail display that you want to view in the illustration window. Alternatively, drag the proxy view area the colored box to a different area of the thumbnail display.

Select the Hand tool , and drag in the direction you want the artwork to move. Navigator panel overview. You can customize the Navigator panel in the following ways:.

To display artwork outside the boundaries of the artboard in the Navigator panel, click View Artboard Contents Only from the panel menu to deselect it.

To change the color of the proxy view area, select panel Options from the panel menu. Select a preset color from the Color menu, or double-click the color box to choose a custom color. To display dashed lines in the document as solid lines in the Navigator panel, select panel Options from the panel menu and select Draw Dashed Lines As Solid Lines. Preview artwork as outlines. The eye icon has a hollow center when Outline view is enabled and a filled center when Preview view is enabled.

Alternatively, select Outline Others from the Layers panel menu. Use multiple windows and views. Multiple windows and multiple views differ in the following ways:. Multiple views are saved with the document, multiple windows are not.

Multiple windows can be viewed at the same time. Create a new window. Create a new view. Rename or delete a view. Switch between views. Select a view name from the bottom of the View menu. Previewing artwork in final output medium. Approximates how your artwork appears when it is rasterized and viewed in a web browser. This mode is useful for previewing artworks including posters. Lets you preview how your document appears on a particular mobile phone or device.