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- In this movie,

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I'll show you how to
zoom into your document

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and zoom out from it.

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And the idea is that sometimes,

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you want to get very close to a detail

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to make sure it looks exactly right.

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And other times, you want to back away

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so you can take in the entire document.

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And the simplest way to zoom in and out

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is to go to the View menu
and choose one of these

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two commands, either
Zoom In to get closer,

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or Zoom Out to get farther away.

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The thing is, you end up
using these commands so often

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that you're better off memorizing
the keyboard shortcuts,

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which are pretty straightforward.

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It's ctrl + plus or cmd +
plus on the Mac to zoom in

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and ctrl + minus or cmd +
minus on the Mac to zoom out.

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Let me show you what that looks like.

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First, I want you to notice
our current zoom level,

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which is listed up here in the title tab.

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And for me, it's 33.3%.

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So if I press ctrl + plus
or cmd + plus on the Mac,

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I'm going to not only zoom in but I'll see

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this new zoom level of 50%.

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And if I continue to press
ctrl + plus or cmd + plus

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on the Mac, I'll zoom in farther still,

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ultimately, in this case, to 100%,

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which theoretically
represents the document

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at the size it will print.

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But you don't want to
get too hung up on that

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because the document is
really going to print it

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at a larger size, and you
can always gauge that size

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by going to the File menu and
choosing the Print command.

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And as we'll see in a later chapter,

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you even have the option of
scaling the document on the fly

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as you print it.

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All right, I'm just going
to press the escape key

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in order to hide that menu.

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And just for the sake
of demonstration here,

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I'll now press ctrl + minus,
or cmd + minus on the Mac,

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to zoom out incrementally as well.

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Now it turns out you can
zoom way in on your document.

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And noticed that I've already passed 1000%

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and now I'm quickly passing 10,000%.

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And you can even zoom in as far

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as 64,000%,

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which is a 640x-level of magnification,

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which if this were a microscope,

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would be enough magnification to take in

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an independent bacterium,
which is why I've drawn one

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to scale right here.

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All right, and notice
if I press ctrl + minus

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or cmd + minus on the Mac
in order to zoom away,

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that it ultimately is going to disappear.

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All right, now let's say you
want to reset the zoom level

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to 100%.

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Then all you have to do
is go to the View menu

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and choose Actual Size,

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or you also have this
handy keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + 1 or cmd + 1 for 100.

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And so I'll go ahead and do that.

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I'll press ctrl + 1 here on
the PC, or cmd +1 on the Mac

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in order to quickly zoom out to 100%.

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All right, you may also recall
from the previous chapter

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that you can zoom into specific artboards

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from the Artboards panel.

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And just by way of a refresher,

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I'll go up to the Window menu

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and choose the Artboards
command in order to bring up

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that panel.

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And then notice that I've
got this big central artboard

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right here.

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I'm going to double-click
on it, not on its name,

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because that would highlight
the name so we can change it.

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Just go ahead and double-click
on some other portion here

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in order to zoom out from the document

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so that you're exactly fitting
the artboard on screen.

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And notice I also have
these square artboard

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over here on the left and
right sides of the central one.

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And so to get to them, I'll
just go ahead and double-click

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on, say, Art square 1,

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which not only switches
me to that artboard,

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but zooms into it as well.

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And notice, by the way,
that I have a little bit

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of a bleed associated with this artboard,

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so the black boundary
represents the trim size,

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the actual printed size
of this illustration,

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and the red boundary represents the bleed.

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And so this is how you use bleeds.

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You just go ahead and draw
all the way out to them

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so that you give your commercial printer

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a little bit of wiggle room.

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All right, now I'm going to
advance to the next artboard

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just by double-clicking on it.

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And this time, I'm not using the bleed

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because I don't need it,

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and so that's why this white background

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just extends to the
boundary of the artboard,

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because there's really nothing going on

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outside of this cube of cubes.

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All right, now I'll
double-click on Art square 3,

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which is our fourth artboard,

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and I just want you to see
that if I were to press

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ctrl + plus or cmd + plus
on the Mac at this point,

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I'm going to zoom in on
this active artboard.

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So I'm zooming in on the center of it.

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And then if I press ctrl +
minus or cmd + minus on the Mac,

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I zoom out from the center
of this active artboard.

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All right, another way
to zoom in on an artboard

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is to click on it here
inside the Artboards panel.

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And so in my case, I'm
clicking on the final artboard.

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I'm not double-clicking,
I'm just selecting it.

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And then you go up to the
View menu and you choose

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Fit Artboard in Window,

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or you press this keyboard
shortcut of ctrl + 0,

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or cmd + 0 on a Mac,

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and that'll go ahead and zoom
to whatever ratio is necessary

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to exactly fit that artboard on screen.

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All right, now let's say
I decide to zoom way out.

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I'll just go ahead and press ctrl + minus,

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or cmd + minus on the Mac,
as many times as it takes

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in order to see the entire pasteboard.

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So you may recall this
dark area is the pasteboard

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where you can place anything you like.

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You can use it as a kind
of graphical junk drawer

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so that you can bring elements
back if you need them later.

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But it's important to
know that the pasteboard

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does have a physical limit,

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and you can't go anywhere outside of it.

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So this light gray area
represents the end of the universe

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inside Illustrator.

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All right, now let's say
I want to zoom back in

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so I can take in all of the artboards.

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I can do that by going up to the View menu

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and choosing the command right
after Fit Artboard in Window,

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which is Fit All in Window.

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And notice that it has a slightly
modified keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + alt + 0 here on
the PC, or cmd + opt + 0

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on the Mac.

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And that, friends, is
how you zoom in and out

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inside of a document using any
of these five commands here

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inside the View menu.

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Or one of these handy
shortcuts listed here

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on the right-hand side.