- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look
at the various way you can resize artboards
using the Artboard tool,
and it turns out there's five different methods in all.
Now, you can see I've made
some slight modifications to this document,
specifically I changed these numbers
in the lower artboards to letters,
and so I'm going to start things off here
by switching to the Artboard tool,
which you can get by pressing Shift + O,
and then I'll click on artboard nine,
and I'm going to drag it down a little bit
so that I have more room to work,
and thanks to the fact that my move slash copy
artwork with Artboard icon is turned on,
that went ahead and moved the nine along with the artboard.
Now, the most obvious method for scaling an artboard
is to drag either a corner handle,
as I'm doing in this case,
or either a top or bottom handle or one of the side handles,
and, assuming that your Smart Guides are turned on,
you'll see the width and height of your artboard
inside that heads-up display.
All right, that's looking a little messy to me,
so I'm going to go ahead and undo all those modifications
by pressing Control + Z, or Command + Z on the Mac,
as many times as it takes to get back
to my original artboard.
Now, let's say you're happy with the artboard's proportions,
that is, you like the relationship
between the width and the height of the artboard,
which is known as the Aspect Ratio, incidentally,
then you can press and hold the Shift key
as you drag any handle, by the way,
it doesn't have to be a corner handle,
it could be a side handle or a top or bottom handle as well.
All right, I'm going to undo those modifications as well
because, notice when I drag specifically a corner handle,
I'm resizing the artboard with respect
to its opposite corner.
If I want to scale the artboard with respect to its center,
then I would press and hold the Alt key,
that's going to be the Option key on the Mac.
And, so, notice when I have the Alt key down,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and I drag a corner handle, I am scaling all four sides.
If I just want to scale a couple of sides,
I could drag a side handle,
and notice if I go ahead and press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac, and keep that key down,
incidentally, then I'm moving both sides
either away from each other or inward,
and the same goes if I were to Alt or Option + drag
the top or bottom handle.
And then, if I add the Shift key to all that,
then I can constrain the Aspect Ratio
while scaling with respect to the center.
So, in this case, I have both the Shift and Alt keys down,
that's going to be Shift and Option on the Mac.
And, perhaps surprisingly, this works
with multiple artboards as well.
So, if I click off the artboard in order to deselect it,
and then I Shift + marquee these bottom guys right here,
then I could drag a corner handle
in order to scale all four of these artboards.
And notice that I'm scaling
with respect to the opposite corner in this case,
and, as a result, I'm no longer aligned with the type,
and that's because, as things stand now,
Illustrator's not equipped
to scale artwork and artboards together.
So I'll go ahead and undo that modification,
and I'll just drag this top handle upward like so
so that the artboards are taller, but they're not any wider.
And I might not want them to be quite this tall,
so I'll go ahead and move these guys down
because if I make these artboards too tall,
then they'll start to include the numbers above them.
All right, so that's method number one.
Now, the other methods are going to go a little quicker here.
Another way to work is to select an artboard
just by clicking on it,
and all of these methods, by the way, work whether
one artboard is selected or multiple artboards.
And now I'll go up to this item
on the left side of the Control Panel,
which currently reads Custom, click on it,
and then I can go ahead and choose a preset
such as Letter Size Page, if I like,
or I can go with an iPhone 6,
which, surprisingly, is much larger.
All right, so that's method two.
Method number three is to resize the artboard
to exactly match the artwork,
and you do that by not clicking on the number zero,
because that's going to create a new artboard,
but instead double-clicking on it.
And, so, if you double-click on any object,
you're going to resize the artboard to match.
All right, I'm going to undo those last couple of modifications
again, by pressing Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac,
and I'll draw a new artboard
so that we can see method number four,
which is easily the most obscure method,
but I just want you to know it's there.
You go to the Object menu, choose Artboards,
and then choose Fit to Artwork Bounds,
and that's going to resize that new artboard
to include everything inside the document.
All right, now I don't really need that artboard,
so I'll just go ahead and press the Backspace key
or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it,
and notice that gets rid of the artboard
without getting rid of any of the actual objects
inside your illustration.
All right, now for method number five,
which is probably the most practical solution there is,
and that's to dial in your own custom numerical values.
And, so, I'll just go ahead
and select artboard zero once again,
and then notice that, in addition to the x and y values,
which are the physical coordinates of the artboard,
we've got width and height,
and so I could go ahead and dial in a width value
of six inches, six double quotes,
and then press the Tab key,
and you can see that Illustrator goes ahead
and converts inches to points on the fly,
and then I could dial in the height value of eight inches,
that is eight double quote,
and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac
to accept that change.
Now, if you want to lock down that Aspect Ratio,
then just go ahead and turn on this link icon right here,
and now notice, if I were to dial in the width value
of twelve inches, let's say,
then the height value will change in kind.
Now, that doesn't lock these values into absolute agreement
with each other, rather,
it expands the width and height values by the same amount.
And it can even do simple math, if you like.
If you decide, for example, that you want this page
to be half as wide,
you would enter slash two after that width value,
and that will go ahead and divide the height value
by two as well,
if you want to make the height twice as tall,
then you'd enter asterisk two,
and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac,
and that goes ahead and makes the width value
twice as wide as well.
All right, I'm going to drag this guy over a little bit
to give myself some more room.
Now, notice that everything is happening
with respect to the center of the artboard,
and that's a function of this guy right here,
the so-called Reference Point Matrix,
and you can change that, by the way.
You can scale with respect
to some other portion of the page,
so, for example, if I select this top point right here
and I turn off the link,
and then I increase the height value by 200 points,
let's say, by entering plus 200,
and then pressing the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac,
notice that the page grows taller,
and it does so downward because that top point is fixed
according to that Reference Point Matrix.
By the same token, I could click off the page to deselect it
and then Shift + drag to marquee these bottom artboards,
and I could make them taller by selecting this bottom point
in the Reference Point Matrix,
and then I could click after the height value
and enter plus 300 this time around
and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac,
and you'll see that the pages grow taller
because that bottom point is fixed.
All right, but once again,
that's going to encroach on the numbers,
and so I'll press Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac
to undo that change,
and I'll go with something a little more subtle,
such as plus 50, let's say, for that height value
just to bring the height of those artboards up
ever so slightly,
and I'll go ahead and drag these guys down
to provide us with a little more room as well,
and then I'll go up to the View menu
and choose Fit All in Window
so that all of my artboards fit on screen at the same time.
And, finally, I'll go ahead and escape
out of the artboard editing mode
just by pressing the Escape key,
which returns control to my black arrow.
And those are the five different ways
you can resize artboards using the Artboard tool