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Distributing objects across the artboard

Distributing objects across the artboard - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Distributing objects across the artboard

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- [VOICEOVER] In this movie, I'll show you how to distribute objects with respect to the Artboard. Specifically, we're gonna take each one of these rectangles in the corner of the document, and we're going to align them precisely to the corners of the Artboard. Now the thing to know about this document is that I've set it up in advance, so that each one of these squares measures 160 points wide by 160 points tall. Meanwhile, the Artboard measures 640 by 640 points. So, in other words, I've created the Artboard so it measures exactly four squares wide and four squares tall. And so if I want to align this green square to the top left corner of the Artboard, I can do so by first making sure that "Align to Artboard" is turned on. And then I'd click on "Horizontal Align Left" followed by "Vertical Align Top". The problem with that approach is I'm going to have to click on two icons for four different squares, whereas I can get the same results with half the effort using the distribution…

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