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4. Click the Print option at the top of the resulting New Document dialog box.
The New Document dialog box presents 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 in to 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
5. On the right side of the dialog box, preset or template. Note:
type icons in the Name field.
To change the Raster
6. Make sure the Number of Artboards field is set to 1. Effects setting for a
new file, click the More
Options on the right side of the dialog box, such as artboard orientation and units of
measurement, default to the last-used settings. Settings link at the
bottom of the Preset
Illustrator includes the ability to create multiple artboards (basically, Illustrator’s version Details section.
of “pages”). For this project, you need only a single artboard.

7. Choose Points in the Units menu, and choose Portrait Orientation.
Although inches is the standard unit of measurement in the United States, the default
points option is a standard unit of measurement for graphic designers. There are 72
points in an inch. Don’t worry, though, about being able to define everything in points;
Illustrator can make the calculations for you.

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

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

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