Adobe Illustrator Visual QuickStart Guide

5. Navigating Documents

In This Chapter

Changing Magnification

Using the Hand and Rotate View Tools

Using the Navigator Panel

Changing View Modes

Using Rulers

Using Guides and Grids

Using Smart Guides

The Adobe Illustrator navigational tools and features let you focus on specific areas and elements in your document, helping you work efficiently.

Changing Magnification

Illustrator lets you easily change the document magnification levels using a variety of options.

Depending on your system’s graphics processing unit (GPU), performance enhancements let Illustrator pan, zoom, and scroll up to 10 times faster with 10 times higher magnification (64,000%, up from 6,400%).

Enable GPU performance

Do the following:

1. Open the Preferences dialog box ...