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8. Click Create to create the new file. Immediately choose View>Fit Artboard Note:
in Window.
Our screenshots show the
In the resulting document window, the letter-size “page” (or artboard) is represented Macintosh OS using the
by a dark black line.
Application frame.
The color of the pasteboard (the area around the artboard) defaults to match
the brightness of the user interface. You can change this setting to show a white
pasteboard in the User Interface pane of the Preferences dialog box.
As we explained in the Interface chapter, the panels you see depend on what was
done the last time you (or someone else) used the application. Because workspace
arrangement is such a personal preference, we tell you what panels you need to use,
but we don’t tell you where to place them.

The name you
defined appears in
the document tab.

This is the
artboard edge.

The artboard area
is white.

The area outside the
artboard is gray.

9. Choose File>Save As. In the resulting dialog box, click the Save on Your Note:
Computer button.
Press Command/
Before you intentionally
save a file in a specific Control-S to save a
location, documents document, or press
autosave to your Creative Command/Control-
Could (CC) account, using Shift-S to open the Save
a special “.aic” extension. As dialog box.
The File>Save command
(and the associated
keyboard shortcut,
Command/Control-S) are
enabled as soon as a file is
created.
To intentionally save a file
somewhere on your local
drive or network, you have to choose the File>Save As command, and then click the
Save on Your Computer button.

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