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Using rulers

Using rulers - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using rulers

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- In this movie, we'll take a look at what you need to know Show Rulers, or use the keyboard shortcut, Control or Command + R, for the whole document, regardless of how many art boards you have. These are called global rulers or you can have independent rulers for each artboard. And these are obviously going to be called, artboard rulers. are zero. And when you have a selection, and else where are relative to the ruler origin. to move the origin and now you can see the x and y coordinates of my fish have changed. when you're using global rulers will affect the appearance of patterns. Double-click where the two rulers meet to reset the origin. So if I click on the second artboard, you can see that the ruler origin jumps to the top and left of that artboard. Likewise, if I click on the third artboard, you can see that ruler origin jump to that one. If I didn't want that and instead wanted just one continuous set of rulers that didn't change when I moved between artboards, I can switch…

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