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Five ways to resize artboards

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Five ways to resize artboards

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at the various ways you can resize artboards using the artboard tool and it turns out there's five different methods in all. Now, you can see I've made some slight modifications to this document. Specifically, I changed these numbers in the lower artboards to letters. And so I'm going to start things off here by switching to the artboard tool, which you can get by pressing Shift + O. And then, I'll click on artboard nine and I'm going to drag it down a little bit so that I have more room to work. And thanks to the fact that my Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard icon is turned on, that went ahead and moved the nine along with the artboard. Now, the most obvious method for scaling an artboard is to drag either a corner handle, as I'm doing in this case, or either a top or bottom handle, or one of the side handles. And assuming that your smart guides are turned on, you'll see…

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