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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
preset or template. Note:
5. On the right side of the dialog box, You can change the color
type icons in the Name field. mode and raster effects

6. Make sure the Number of Artboards field is set to 1. settings by expanding the
Advanced Options in
Options on the right side of the dialog box, such as artboard orientation and units of the right side of the New
measurement, default to the last-used settings.
Document dialog box.
Illustrator includes the ability to create multiple artboards (basically, Illustrator’s version
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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