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- Illustrator is an
exceedingly flexible program.

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It lets you create a single piece

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of artwork or a multi-page design.

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Thing is though Illustrator
doesn't like the word pages,

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it calls them artboards,
which perhaps sounds silly,

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even pretentious but an artboard
is actually precisely that.

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It's not a piece of paper or even an

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electronic page in a PDF document.

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It's a rectangular creation surface.

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Within a single Illustrator
document every artboard

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can be any size you like,
conforming to the exact

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needs of your specific project.

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And you can spread the artboards anywhere,

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all across the desktop.

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This isn't a letter size
document or a A4 page,

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this is a freeform artboard that can

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be any size or dimension you want.

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In this chapter I'll show
you how to create artboards

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in any and everyway possible
and then I'll show you how

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to clean them up so that all your

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artboards fall into perfect alignment.

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You can work however you like,
Illustrator knows that it

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has one and only one
job, to keep up with you.