Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

I always leave Preview Mode set to Default, which provides

the most fl exibility. It’s easy enough to change to the other

preview modes from the View menu. For more information

on the preview modes, see “Video Lesson 1: Navigation”

from the videos.

8. Click the OK button. Or you can press the Enter

or Return key to accept your settings and create

a blank document inside a new document win-

dow. Your document should look like the one in

Figure 1-11, with a perfectly square artboard and a

red bleed boundary.

Now that you have created a pristine new document—

complete with a custom-sized artboard, bleed bound-

aries, and output settings—you’ll learn a few ways to

change it in the next exercise, as well as how to add a

second artboard with a different size.

Figure 1-11 .

Changing the Document Setup

and Modifying Artboards

Creating new documents is fi ne—but invariably specifi cations get

updated, you (or your client) change your mind about the artwork’s

size, or any of a host of other issues arise. Rather than recreating

your meticulous efforts, you need your documents to change with

the times—and now I’ll show you how to do just that, through a

series of hypothetical (but sadly, all too common) scenarios. Instead

of being contained in one dialog box, however, these options are

scattered in several places across Illustrator’s user interface. We’ll

walk through them one by one.

1.