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Printing
In the setup pane of the Print dialog box, you
can choose crop Area from the crop Artwork
to menu.
0 F reehand to Illustrator Migration guide
Illustrator CS3 output is reliable and accurate, thanks to improved performance
and such features as transparency flattening and overprint preview, whether you
output to a printer or export as Adobe PDF. Feel confident that your Illustrator
CS3 artwork will print as you have created it.
The Page tool
An Illustrator document can be up to 227 square inches, but the paper you print
on comes in standard sizes. You use the Page tool to define which part of the
artwork appears on the printed page.
To view and use the Page tool:
1.
In the Print dialog box, choose a printer and a media size, and then click
Done.
2.
Choose View > Show Page Tiling. Illustrator outlines the area that will print
on the selected media size.
3.
Select the Page tool (hidden behind the Hand tool in the Tools panel) and
use it to move the print area as necessary.
The Crop Area tool
The Crop Area tool in Illustrator CS3 provides a working environment that
includes dimensions and units tailored to your output. For print, the web, video,
and film, predefined Crop Area characteristics set up your workspace so that it's
automatically efficient for the type of media that will display your designs.
Select the Crop Area tool in the toolbar and simply pull open any size rectan-
gular area to crop. Look at the Control panel and see that you can enter a size
and position for your crop area, choose to show or hide safe areas, and delete a
crop area.
The Print dialog box
Printing your artwork in Illustrator is very similar to using the Advanced Print
Settings in FreeHand. The Print dialog box lets you click through panes that
provide controls over general settings, document setup, marks and bleeds,
output, graphics, and color management. Click Page Setup to specify page setup
options.
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