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Pages of any size, at any angle

Pages of any size, at any angle - Illustrator Tutorial

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Pages of any size, at any angle

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- Illustrator is an exceedingly flexible program. It lets you create a single piece of artwork or a multi-page design. Thing is, at least where Illustrator is concerned, Adobe doesn't approve of the word pages. The preferred term is artboards, which perhaps sounds a little silly, even pretentious. But it tells the story. After all, an artboard is not a piece of paper or even an electronic page in a PDF document. Rather, an artboard is a rectangular creation surface. Within a single Illustrator document, each artboard can be any size and orientation you like, conforming to the exact needs of your specific project. You can position the artboards anywhere you like all across your desktop, and you can even select and duplicate entire artboards at a time complete with their contents. In this chapter, I'll show you how to create artboards in any and every way you like, and then I'll show you how to clean them up so that all of…

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