Navigator panel overview, View artwork as outlines – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Workspace
See also
Moving and zooming tool gallery
Navigator panel overview
You use the Navigator panel (Window
> Navigator) to quickly change the view of your artwork using a thumbnail
display. The colored box in the Navigator (called the proxy view area) corresponds to the currently viewable area in
the illustration window.
Navigator panel
A. Thumbnail display of artwork B. Panel menu button C. Zoom box D. Zoom Out button E. Proxy preview area F. Zoom slider G. Zoom
In button
You can customize the Navigator panel in the following ways:
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To display artwork outside the boundaries of the artboard in the Navigator panel, click View Artboard Contents
Only from the panel menu to deselect it.
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To change the color of the proxy view area, select panel Options from the panel menu. Select a preset color from
the Color menu, or double-click the color box to choose a custom color.
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To display dashed lines in the document as solid lines in the Navigator panel, select panel Options from the panel
menu and select Draw Dashed Lines As Solid Lines.
See also
View artwork as outlines
By default, Adobe Illustrator sets the view so that all artwork is previewed in color. However, you can choose to display
artwork so that only its outlines (or paths) are visible. Viewing artwork without paint attributes speeds up the time it
takes to redraw the screen when working with complex artwork.
In Outline mode, linked files are displayed by default as outlined boxes with an X inside. To view the contents of linked
files, choose File
> Document Setup, and select Show Images In Outline Mode.
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To view all artwork as outlines, choose View
> Outline. Choose View
> Preview to return to previewing artwork in
color.
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To view all artwork in a layer as outlines, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac
OS) the eye icon for the
layer in the Layers panel. Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac
OS) again to return to previewing artwork
in color. The eye icon has a hollow center
when Outline view is enabled and a filled center
when Preview
view is enabled.
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