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Setting up the business card document in Illustrator

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Setting up the business card document in Illustrator

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- For my second business card project I'll be designing a card for Buzz Coffee, a fictitious coffee shop in Austin, Texas. Here's the finished Illustrator document and I'm doing this in Illustrator because I want to combine the logo with the background and I think it's slightly easier to do that in Illustrator than in InDesign. And in fact I'm going to begin with the logo file. So let's assume that this has been supplied to me by the client and this is going to be my starting point. So before I do anything, I want to save as, so that I don't overwrite the logo file, and then I'm going to change the size of the art board. Here's the art board tool. And I want to make sure that my unit of meaasurement is in inches, first of all let's turn on my rulers command with control r, I'll change my unit of measurement right here where the rulers intersect, I'll come and control or right click on that, change to inches, and my size, standard US or Canadian business card size, 3.5x2. I'd also like…

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