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4. Click the Print option at the top of the resulting New Document dialog box.
Note:
The New Document dialog box offers a number of preset sizes and prebuilt starter
templates, broken into categories based on the intended output. You can change the color
mode and raster effects
When you choose the Print category, you see common page sizes such as Letter and settings by expanding
Legal. The Print presets automatically default to the CMYK color mode and 300 ppi the Advanced Options
raster effects, which are required for commercial printing applications. For all other
categories of presets (Mobile, Web, Film & Video, and Art & Illustration), the new in the right side of the
document defaults to the RGB color mode and 72 ppi raster effects. (You will learn New Document dialog
more about the importance of those options in later projects.) box.
Click a category
name to show Click here to define
related presets. a new file name.
Click to select an
existing preset or
template.
5. On the right side of the dialog box, type icons in the Name field.
6. 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 File name
for graphic designers. There are 72 points in an inch. Don’t worry,
though, about being able to define everything in points; Illustrator Default unit of
can make the calculations for you. measurement
7. Make sure the Number of Artboards field is set to 1. Landscape
Options on the right side of the dialog box, such as artboard Portrait
orientation and units of measurement, default to the last-used
settings. When linked, all four
Bleed fields will have
Illustrator includes the ability to create multiple artboards (basically, the same value.
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.
44 Project 1: Campground Icons

