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- In this movie we will review
the special relationship

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between artboards and rulers.

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Which is not an exciting topic.

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Which is why I am reserving it

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for the last movie in this chapter.

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You may want to reserve
it for that time of night

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where you pour yourself
a warm glass of milk

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and go to bed.

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But it is information worth knowing.

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So the first thing I'm going to do is

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switch to the artboard
tool, which as you know now

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has a keyboard shortcut of shift + o.

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And then I'm going to
go up to the View Menu,

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choose the Rulers command
and choose Show Rulers,

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or more easily, you can
press its keyboard shortcut,

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which is ctrl + r, here in
the PC; or cmd +r on a MAC

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And we're seeing some pretty
high values up here in Rulers

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and that's because
we're working in Points,

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but you can change the unit
of measure anytime you like

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but right clicking on
either one of the Rulers,

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either the one up here
at the top of the screen

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or the one along the left
side of the document window.

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And then you can choose any unit you like,

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such as inches.

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Now, notice that we have a zero point

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and all the other numbers
extend away from it.

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So we've got 0 right here

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and then we've got 4 on either side,

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in other words, 4 inches to the right

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and then 4 inches to the left.

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And so forth.

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So what that means is that we
have origin point right here.

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I'm going to go ahead and
double click on this tick mark

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next to the 0 in the horizontal ruler.

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And I'll double click in the tick mark

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below the 0 on the vertical ruler.

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In order to create a couple
of guides that demonstrate

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exactly where that zero zero point is.

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Now, you want the zero zero
point to be in a useful location

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because it serves as the
origin for all the coordinate

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positioning values.

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So for example, where this
first artboard is concerned

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if I go ahead and click
on this upper left point

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in the reference point matrix,

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I can see that its position
is an X value of -6.08 inches

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and a Y value of -0.67 inches.

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That is not of any use to me.

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That is not going to serve
me well in the long run.

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So you want to come up with a
more useful zero zero point.

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And you can do that in a
couple of different ways.

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First, you can drag from the
intersection of the two rulers.

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See the square right here?

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Go ahead and drag from it.

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And that will move the origin point.

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And just for the sake of demonstration,

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I'm going to drop it
in the middle of the 3.

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And now you can see that the
zero point is moved there.

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I'll go ahead and double
click on its tick mark

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to set a vertical guide.

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And I'll double click on this tick mark

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to set a horizontal guide.

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And you can see, sure
enough, the zero zero point

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is right in the center of that 3.

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And if that is an important
point to me, that's great.

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So I'm not going to judge where
you put the zero zero point,

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you just do need to put it someplace.

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Another way to work is to
attach it to the top left corner

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of one of the artboards.

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And you do that by clicking
on an artboard to selet it.

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And then you go up to that square

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at which the two rulers meet
and you double click on it

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and now notice that we've
got a zero zero point.

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And I'll double click on
this tick mark right there

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and I'll double click on this one as well

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and you can see that it exactly aligns

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to the top left corner of that artboard.

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And also if you go up
here to the control panel,

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you're going to see X and Y
values of 0 inches a piece.

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And that's works out very nicely.

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Now in my case, I really
want that zero zero point

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to be at the top left corner
of the very first artboard,

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so I'm going to click on
Artboard 1 right there

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and double click on that
square again in order to

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reposition the zero
points, and now you can see

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that I've got an X and Y value of 0 inches

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for this particular artboard.

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Alright, now I no longer
need these guidelines

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all over the place.

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So I'm going to go to the
View Menu, choose Guides

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and then choose Clear Guides,

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we've got a little bug going on

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in this version of the software.

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If you see that, what you need to do

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is just go ahead and press
the esc key to hide the menu,

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then press the esc key again,
in order to switch back to

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the black arrow tool.

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Click on something,
anything, it doesn't matter.

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And then go up to the
View Menu, choose Guides

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and choose Clear Guies,

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in order to make all those
guidelines disappear.

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Aright now in order to make
this next point clear here,

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I need to switch back to the artboard tool

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and now notice that the
2nd artboard is selected

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at which point we can see
that my X value has changed

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to 8.17 inches, the Y
value is still 0 inches,

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because after all, the
top of the 2nd artboard

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is aligned to the top of the 1st artboard.

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These value are a little
misleading though,

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since everything is set up in points.

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So, I'm going to right click
on either of the rulers

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and switch back to points link,
so now we'll see an X value

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of 588 points.

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If I click on the 3rd artboard,

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the X value is going to
increase to 1176 points.

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If I click on the 8th artboard,

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we'll still have that same X value

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because its left edge is
aligned to the left edge

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of the 3rd artboard, but
its Y value has now changed

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to 732 points. And so on.

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And the reason I'm telling
you this is because

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what we are experiencing when
we're using the artboard tool,

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is a thing called the global ruler.

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Meaning that we have a
single zero zero point

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and nothing more.

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So everything, all the
artboards are being measured

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with respect to that zero zero point.

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And you should know, I'll go
ahead and click on the last

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artboard here and double
click on the square again,

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to set the zero zero point
to its upper left corner.

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What I want you to see here
if I click on artboard 3,

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is that negative X values go to the left,

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while positive X values go to the right.

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Where the Y value is concerned,
and this may seem peculiar

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but this is the way it works
throughout most of Illustrator,

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is negative values go upward
and positive value go downward.

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Alright, I'm going to
switch the zero zero point

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back to the upper left
corner of the 1st artboard,

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however, by selecting it
and then double clicking

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on that square.

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Now again, we have a global
ruler when we're working inside

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the artboard mode.

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But that doesn't necessarily carry through

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once we escape the artboard mode,

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by of course pressing the esc key.

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So now here I am with a
black arrow tool selected.

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As long as the 1st artboard
is active, the zero zero point

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starts at its upper left corner.

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But as soon as I click on
a 2nd artboard, like so,

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notice that the zero zero
point moved right there

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its right at that location, so
everything is emanating from

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the upper left corner
of the active artboard.

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The same thing that happens
if I click in artboard 8,

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there's the zero point right there,

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and there it is in the vertical ruler.

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And this is what is
known as artboard rulers.

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But you can switch back and forth.

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You can't in the artboard mode.

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You always have the global rulers.

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But, when you're working
outside the artboard mode

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you can switch back and forth

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by going up to the View
Menu, choosing Rulers

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and then choosing this command right there

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Change to Global Rulers,
in which case you will have

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just that one zero zero point,

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and everything else is measured from it,

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if you want to switch back
to the artboard rulers,

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then you just return to the View Menu

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and choose the same
command at that position,

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which now reads Change to Artboard Rulers.

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And now we see that the
zero zero point has moved

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to the top of the active
artboard, which is artboard 8.

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And that is the immensely
entertaining interaction

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between artboards and rulers
here inside Illustrator.