Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 48)

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Workspace
Last updated 6/5/2015
Gestures
The Touch workspace provides gesture support to enable you to quickly work with objects drawn on your artboard:
• Zoom in (increase magnification): Pinch outward to zoom in on the artboard.
• Zoom out (reduce magnification): Pinch inwards to zoom out of the artboard.
• Pan: Drag across to screen with two fingers to pan across the artboard.
• Context widget: Tap and hold an object to bring up the Context widget.
• Select objects (Selection tool): Tap an object, or Tap on the artboard and drag across objects to select.
• Switch Selection / Drawing modes: Tap with two fingers to toggle between selection and drawing modes.
Artboard overview
Artboards represent the regions that can contain printable artwork. You resize and set the orientation for your artwork
by choosing settings in the Artboard Options dialog box. (In Illustrator CS3 and earlier, you use the Document Setup
dialog box to change the document size and orientation.)
You can use artboards as crop areas for printing or placement purposes—they work the same way as crop areas work
in Illustrator CS3. Multiple artboards are useful for creating a variety of things such as multiple page PDFs, printed
pages with different sizes or different elements, independent elements for websites, video storyboards, or individual
items for animation in Adobe Flash or After Effects.
note: If you created crop areas in an Illustrator CS3 document, the
crop areas will be converted to artboards in CS5. You may be prompted to specify how you want the crop areas to convert.
You can have 1 to 100 artboards per document depending on size. You can specify the number of artboards for a
document when you first create it, and you can add and remove artboards at any time while working in a document.
You can create artboards in different sizes, resize them by using the Artboard tool
, and position them anywhere
on the screen—even overlapping one another. Illustrator CS5 also provides options to reorder and rearrange artboards
using the Artboards panel. You can also specify custom names for an artboard and set reference points for artboards.
Viewing artboards and the canvas
You can view the page boundaries in relation to an artboard by showing print tiling (View > Show Print Tiling). When
print tiling is on, the printable and nonprintable areas are represented by a series of solid and dotted lines between the
outermost edge of the window and the printable area of the page.
Each artboard is bound by solid lines and represents the maximum printable area. To hide the artboard boundaries,
choose View > Hide Artboards. The canvas is the area outside the artboard that extends to the edge of the 220 inch
square window. The canvas represents a space on which you can create, edit, and store elements of artwork before
moving them onto an artboard. Objects placed onto the canvas are visible on-screen, but they do not print.
To center an artboard and zoom it to fit the screen, click the artboard number in the status bar, located at the bottom
of the application window.