Rulers, Grids, And Guides - Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual

Previewing artwork in its final output medium
Illustrator provides several ways to preview how aspects of artwork will look when printed or viewed on the web:
Overprint Preview mode (View > Overprint > Preview)
transparency, and overprinting will appear in color-separated output. (See "About overprinting" on page 490.)
Pixel Preview mode (View > Pixel Preview)
viewed in a web browser. (See "About pixel preview mode" on page 442.)
Flattener Preview palette (Window > Flattener Preview)
Preview) highlights areas of the artwork that meet certain criteria for flattening when saved or printed. (See "To
preview which areas of artwork will be flattened" on page 487.)
Approximate how your document's colors will appear on a particular type of monitor or output device.
Soft-proofs
Gives vector objects a smoother on-screen appearance and gives you a better idea of how vector
Anti-aliasing
artwork will look when printed on a PostScript® printer. This is because screen resolution is relatively limited, but
vector artwork is often printed at a high resolution. To turn on anti-aliasing, choose Edit > Preferences > General
(Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac OS), select Anti-aliased Artwork, and click OK.
See also
"Soft-proofing colors" on page 207

Rulers, grids, and guides

To work with rulers
Rulers help you accurately place and measure objects in the illustration window. Rulers appear at the top and left
sides of the illustration window. The point where 0 appears on each ruler is called the ruler origin. The default ruler
origin is located at the upper left corner of the artboard.
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To change the ruler origin, move the pointer to the upper left corner of the illustration window where the rulers
intersect, and drag the pointer to where you want the new ruler origin.
As you drag, a cross hair in the window and in the rulers indicates the changing ruler origin.
Note: Changing the ruler origin affects the tiling of patterns and the display of artwork in the Print dialog box.
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To restore the default ruler origin, double-click the upper left corner of the illustration window where the rulers
intersect.
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To show rulers, choose View > Show Rulers.
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To hide rulers, choose View > Hide Rulers.
Provides an "ink preview" that approximates how blending,
Approximates how your artwork will appear when it is rasterized and
The Flattener Preview palette (Window > Flattener
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