Zoom in or out, Change the view area – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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Workspace
When you divide the artboard into multiple tiles, the pages are numbered from left to right and from top to bottom,
starting with page 1. These page numbers appear on-screen for your reference only; they do not print. The numbers
enable you to print all of the pages in the file or specify particular pages to print.
See also
Change the page size and orientation
Tile artwork on multiple pages
Zoom in or out
There are several ways to zoom in or out of artwork.
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Select the Zoom tool
. The pointer becomes a magnifying glass with a plus sign in its center. Click in the center
of the area that you want to magnify, or hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac
OS) and click in the center of
the area that you want to reduce. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the previous preset percentage.
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Select the Zoom tool and drag a dotted rectangle, called a marquee, around the area you want to magnify. To move
the marquee around the artwork, hold down the spacebar, and continue dragging to move the marquee to a new
location.
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Choose View
> Zoom In or View
> Zoom Out. Each click magnifies or reduces the view to the next preset
percentage.
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Set the zoom level at the lower-left corner of the main window or in the Navigator panel.
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To display a file at 100%, choose View
> Actual Size, or double-click the Zoom tool.
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To fill the window with the selected artboard, choose View
> Fit Artboard In Window, or double-click the Hand tool.
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To view everything in the window, choose View > Fit All In Window.
See also
Moving and zooming tool gallery
Change the view area
You can bring a different area of the artboard into view by doing any of the following:
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Choose View > Actual Size to see all of your artboards in actual size.
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Choose View > Fit All In Window to zoom out so that all artboards are visible in on the screen.
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Choose View > Fit Artboard In Window to zoom in on the active artboard.
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In the Navigator panel, click the area of the thumbnail display that you want to view in the illustration window.
Alternatively, drag the proxy view area (the colored box) to a different area of the thumbnail display.
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Select the Hand tool
, and drag in the direction you want the artwork to move.
To specify the quality of the display when using the Hand tool, choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Display
Performance (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Units & Display Performance (Mac OS). Drag the Hand Tool
slider left to improve the quality of the view when you move it with the Hand tool, or right to improve the speed at which
you can move the view with the Hand tool.