GENERAL INFO

• When in doubt, try Shift or Option when clicking and see what happens.
• The pasteboard/canvas is the background that the artboards sit on and can hold all sorts of things (i.e. instructions, bits of type, yesterday’s comics – think of it as your drafting table in a digital form).
• When you go to print, remember that you have to tell the printer which artboard(s) to print.
• In Adobe Bridge – drag something into Preview to see it and NOT change its current location on your hard drive.
• Actual Size means 100% size – NOT print size.

PROBLEMS

Artwork is moving with an artboard:

• The Move/Copy Artwork button is turned on and you need to turn it off (see below):

Re-positioning artboard warnings:

• Object falling completely off the drawing area – go to View - Guides - Clear Guides and see if that solves the problem.
• Spot colors are used with transparency – click Continue.

Adobe Bridge opens your files in the wrong version of your software:

• Go to Adobe Bridge CS4 - Preferences - File Type Associations and change the default version of whatever you need to change.

Can’t figure out where everything is on your pasteboard/canvas?

• Go to Window - Navigator

Line through your Tool and you can’t use it:

• The layer you’re trying to use it on is hidden – go to Window - Layers (F7) and make it visible by clicking so the eyeball appears next to it.

Any questions?

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