Viewing artwork

When you open a file, it is displayed in Preview view, which displays artwork the way it will print. When you're working with large or complex illustrations, you may want to view only the outlines, or wireframes, of objects in your artwork, so that the screen doesn't have to redraw the artwork each time you make a change.

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Choose View > Outline. Only the outlines of the objects are displayed.
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Choose View > Preview to see all the attributes of the artwork.
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Choose View > Overprint•Pixel Closeup (at the bottom of the menu) to zoom in to a preset area of the image. This custom view was added to the document.

Note

To save time when working with large or complex documents, you can create your own custom views within a document ...

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