In CS5, artboards can be given names that are displayed in the Control panel (when the Artboard tool is in use), the Artboard Navigation pop-up menu ( Figure 33d), or in the Artboard panel.įigure 33d Artboards listed in the Artboard Navigation menu. In CS4, artboards were identified only by a number, making it hard to keep track of what each artboard contained when selecting, printing, or exporting individual artboards. When you click the New Artboard button from the Control panel, your cursor gets "loaded" with an artboard and wherever you click is where that artboard gets dropped on the canvas.
The Control panel, however, leaves artboard placement up to you. When you use the Artboard panel to create a new artboard, it's added at the far right of the canvas, aligned with the top of the topmost artboard in your document. Both will create a new artboard at the size of the currently active artboard, but that's where they part company. The Artboard panel and the Control panel each have a New Artboard button, but they behave a bit differently. For precise control over artboard size, use the width and height fields in the Control panel to specify the artboard's size, and the x and y coordinates to control its position on the Illustrator canvas. With the Artboard tool, you can select entire artboards, resize them by pulling on any of the corner/edge handles, or reposition them on the Illustrator canvas by clicking and dragging ( Figure 33c). A single Illustrator document can contain up to 100 artboards. In an existing document, you can use the Artboard tool to add artboards of varying sizes at any time. When you create a new document, you can add multiple artboards of identical size in the New Document dialog box. To restore the previous document-wide Illustrator behavior, choose View > Rulers > Change to Global Ruler. This per-artboard ruler behavior is the new default, so you'll notice that the 0,0 origin point snaps to the top left of the active artboard as you switch between artboards. Second, Illustrator CS5 now supports both a global ruler for the entire Illustrator document, and rulers for each artboard. First, the 0,0 origin point for artboards is now at the top-left corner of the artboard, instead of the bottom-left.
Illustrator CS5 fixes two pesky ruler problems.
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