From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
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Global and artboard rulers - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
Global and artboard rulers
- [Narrator] Here, I want to make the distinction between global rulers and artboard rulers, as well as the distinction between place board guides and artboard guides. So, firstly, with the rulers, for the most part, I recommend using artboard rulers that are specific to your individual artboards. That's what I have at the moment. Here I am on artboard number one and we can see that the zero point reflects the top left corner of that artboard. If I switch to artboard number two, the zero point now reflects the top left hand corner of that artboard. But if I were using global rulers and you can switch from one type to the other by right-clicking on the ruler. We see that the zero point goes back to the left of the first artboard and that means that any coordinates are going to be measured from that point regardless of what artboard you're actually on. Now, secondly, and let me just put these back to being artboard rulers, there is a distinction between the guides that you draw on the…
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