- In this movie, I'll show you how to specify
a custom zoom ratio using both the zoom value,
located in the lower left corner of the document window,
as well as the Navigator panel.
So the thing we've seen with just about all
the techniques I've showed you so far,
is that you're zooming incrementally.
So we're going from 33% to 50%
to 66.7% to 100%, and so on.
And if you were to click on this
down-pointing arrowhead next to the zoom value
in the lower left corner of the screen,
then you would see a list of every single one
of these increments, all the way from 3.13%
up to 64,000%.
But it turns out you can zoom to any level in between,
just by highlighting this value, as you see right there.
And let's say, I want to go ahead and
take it out to 33% again.
And then I'll go ahead and press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
so then I can take in all of my artboards.
But now what I want to do
is see as much of the central artboard on screen
without seeing the artboard boundaries.
So I could press Ctrl + Zero,
or ⌘ + Zero on the Mac, to fit the artboard to the screen,
but I'm still seeing a little overage here.
So what I'm going to do is just click inside this value
in the lower left corner of the screen,
and then I'll press the up-arrow key
in order to continuously zoom in.
And you can press and hold that key as well, if you'd like.
Or you can press and hold the down-arrow key
in order to zoom out.
And at about 59% on this screen,
I'm seeing just the artwork without the artboard,
which might be perfect for showing off
my document to either a co-worker or a client,
or that sort of thing.
You also have the option of pressing Shift
along with the up-or-down-arrow,
which allows you to zoom either in or out
in 10% increments.
Alright, now press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac, to accept that change.
And let's see what we can do with the Navigator panel,
which you get by going to the Window menu
and choosing the Navigator command.
And then you'll see this thumbnail view of your document.
Now, once again we have this percentage value right here,
and you can go ahead and dial in any 'ole value you like,
and you use it the exact same way as we saw a moment ago,
with that value in the lower left corner of the screen.
And so for example,
I could just go ahead and dial in a value of 360%.
Another way to zoom in is to click on this big mountain,
right here, or you can zoom out by clicking
on the little mountain.
But you should bear in mind that's going to zoom you
in and out incrementally.
Alright, now see this little tiny rectangle right there?
That represents the visible region of your document.
And so if you want to see some other portion
of your document, just go ahead and drag it
to a different location like so.
Or if you'd like, you can just click on the
area you want to see, making this by far
the fastest method for scrolling
or panning inside of a document.
Another way to work is to zoom in
on a specific detail by pressing the Ctrl key,
or the ⌘ key on the Mac, which gets you
a magnifying glass cursor.
And then just go ahead and drag around the detail
that you want to zoom, which means that you can
zoom and scroll on the fly.
So I could zoom tight if I want to,
on this upper right artboard
just by Ctrl or ⌘ dragging a tiny rectangle,
or I can zoom wide on the first artboard
by Ctrl or ⌘ drawing a larger rectangle.
Alright finally, if you have a lot of room on screen,
or you have a second monitor,
then you can scale the Navigator panel
by dragging on any edge.
So you can drag the right edge, for example.
Or the bottom edge, anything you'd like,
in order to produce a larger thumbnail on screen.
And that way I can zoom in on even the tiniest detail
inside of my illustration.
For example, I'll just go ahead and Ctrl or ⌘ drag
around this tiny region above that orange leaf ornament
in order to zoom in on my bacteria.
And if that's not enough, then I can click
in this zoom value, and press the up-arrow key,
or even Shift up-arrow, in order to zoom in
by larger increments, like so.
And that, friends, is how you enter custom zoom ratios,
as well as exploit the powers of the Navigator panel
here inside Illustrator.