- Illustrator is an exceedingly flexible program.
It lets you create a single piece
of artwork or a multi-page design.
Thing is though Illustrator doesn't like the word pages,
it calls them artboards, which perhaps sounds silly,
even pretentious but an artboard is actually precisely that.
It's not a piece of paper or even an
electronic page in a PDF document.
It's a rectangular creation surface.
Within a single Illustrator document every artboard
can be any size you like, conforming to the exact
needs of your specific project.
And you can spread the artboards anywhere,
all across the desktop.
This isn't a letter size document or a A4 page,
this is a freeform artboard that can
be any size or dimension you want.
In this chapter I'll show you how to create artboards
in any and everyway possible and then I'll show you how
to clean them up so that all your
artboards fall into perfect alignment.
You can work however you like, Illustrator knows that it
has one and only one job, to keep up with you.