Adobe 65010248 Migration Guide - Page 16

SETTING UP A NEW DOCUMENT You can change the document setup at any time by choosing File > Document Setup. Where's the Document panel? In FreeHand, you use the Document panel to target and select pages and to choose page dimensions, orientation, bleed settings, and printer resolution. In Illustrator, choose File > Document Setup to access artboards options and choose settings for type and transparency at the document level. You can also define the dictionary used for spell-checking and hyphenation, the position of superscripts, the scale for small caps, or how to copy transparency effects over to the clipboard for use within Illustrator or in other applications. Bleeds are also defined and edited in the Document Setup dialog box. Document templates You can use templates to create new documents that share common settings and design elements. The template can also contain symbols for common design elements (such as logos) and specific sets of color swatches, brushes, and graphic styles. Save your artwork in Adobe Illustrator Template (AIT) format and when you select a template using the New From Template command, Illustrator creates a new document with identical content to the template. Printable area Nonprintable area (printer margins) Artboard Canvas The Illustrator document Artboards represent the areas that can contain printable artwork. They can be of any dimension, as can your page size. For example, one artboard may be 15x15 inches, while your print settings specify 8‑1/2x11-inch paper. You can view page boundaries by showing page tiling (View > Show Page Tiling). When page tiling is on, the printable and nonprintable areas are represented by a series of solid and dotted lines. You can move the printable area by using the Page tool. The canvas is the 227‑square inch area outside of all artboards. This is the total area available for arranging and working with your artboards. You can create, edit, and store elements of artwork in the canvas, but they will not print. FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-SettingupaNewDocument16