Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Manual (Page 50)

ILLUSTRATOR CS3
User Guide
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Move the view area
You can bring a different area of the artboard into view by doing either of the following:
• Select the Hand tool , and drag in the direction you want the artwork to move.
• 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.
To specify the quality of the display when using the Hand tool, choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Display Perfor-
mance (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Units & Display Performance (Mac OS). Drag the Hand Tool slider
left to improve the quality of the view when you move it with the Hand tool, or right to improve the speed at which you
can move the view with the Hand tool.
See also
“Moving and zooming tool gallery” on page 33
“Keys for viewing artwork” on page 462
Navigator panel overview
You use the Navigator panel (Window > Navigator) to quickly change the view of your artwork using a thumbnail
display. The colored box in the Navigator (called the proxy view area) corresponds to the currently viewable area in
the illustration window.
Navigator panel
A. Thumbnail display of artwork B. panel menu button C. Zoom box D. Zoom Out button E. Proxy preview area F. Zoom slider G. Zoom
In button
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/Crop Area
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.
• To specify the size at which text is replaced by a gray bar in the Navigator panel, select panel Options from the
panel menu and enter a font size in the Greeking box.
See also
“Customize the workspace” on page 18
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