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4.  Click the Print option at the top of the resulting New Document dialog box.
               The New Document dialog box offers                    Click a category name   Click here to define
               a number of preset sizes and prebuilt                to show related presets.  a new file name.
               starter templates, broken into categories
               based on the intended output.
               When you choose the Print category,
               you see common page sizes such as
               Letter and Legal. The Print presets
               automatically default to the CMYK
               color mode and 300 ppi raster effects,
               which are required for commercial
               printing applications. For all other
               categories of presets (Mobile, Web,
               Film & Video, and Art & Illustration),
               the new document defaults to the
               RGB color mode and 72 ppi raster
               effects. (You will learn more about the
               importance of those options in later
               projects.)                           Click to select an existing         Note:
                                                      preset or template.
           5.  On the right side of the dialog                                          You can change the color
               box, type icons in the Name field.                                       mode and raster effects
                                                                                        settings by expanding
           6.  Choose Points in the Units menu, and choose Portrait Orientation.        the Advanced Options
               Although inches is the standard unit of measurement in the United States, the default   in the right side of the
               points option is a standard unit of measurement for graphic designers. There are   New Document dialog
               72 points in an inch. Don’t worry, though, about being able to define everything in   box.
               points; Illustrator can make the calculations for you.

           7.  Make sure the Number of Artboards field is set to 1.
               Options on the right side of the dialog box, such as artboard orientation and units of
               measurement, default to the last-used settings.
               Illustrator includes the ability to create multiple artboards (basically, Illustrator’s
               version of “pages”). For this project, you need only a single artboard.


           8.  Set all four bleed values to 0.
               Bleed is the amount an object needs to extend past the edge of the artboard or page to
               meet the mechanical requirements of commercial printing.


                                                                          File name

                                                                          Default unit of
                                                                          measurement


                                                                          Landscape
                                                                          Portrait
                                                                          When linked, all four
                                                                          Bleed fields will have
                                                                          the same value.



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