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Modifying artboards with the Artboards panel

Modifying artboards with the Artboards panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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Modifying artboards with the Artboards panel

When you're working inside of a document, you can take advantage of a new feature added to Illustrator CS5, something called the Artboards panel to help manage the Artboards in your document. I'll open up the Artboards panel, which appears right here. In fact, I'm just going to bring it up over here, so we can take a better look at it. Let me expand it somewhat. I can see that I currently have several Artboards inside of this document. I've applied names to them as well. By double-clicking on any of the names of the Artboards inside of the Artboards panel, Illustrator takes me directly through that Artboard, and has it fit the screen. So it's a great way to navigate between Artboards by just double-clicking on the name itself to go to that Artboard. Notice that these Artboards are in a specific order. They're numbered so that I'm able to actually print them out with page numbers inside of the Print dialog box. However, I may want to reorder these Artboards, and I can do so very easily…

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