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Hidden artboard editing techniques

Hidden artboard editing techniques - Illustrator Tutorial

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Hidden artboard editing techniques

In this exercise, I'm going to show you some of the top secret hidden options that are available to you when you're working inside of the Artboard Edit mode. I'm still working inside the 8-page newsletter.ai file that's found inside the 01_make_doc folder. I've gone ahead and switched to the Artboard tool under the View menu. I turned off the Overprint Preview command, so that we can see these bright pages against the dark background. I'm going to zoom out by pressing Ctrl+minus or Command+minus on the Mac, so that I can take in all of my Artboards at once here. And I am going to draw a new Artboard, which I can do by the way just by dragging with this tool in an empty area of the window. And now I have a great big Artboard that includes all of the other ones. And notice that this Artboard comes in as Artboard 9. So let's say I change its name to, you know Uberartboard and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac. I can now see the new name of Artboard, but it's still…

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