Getting to Know the Work Area - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 42

Artboard overview
Artboards represent the regions that can contain printable artwork (similar to
pages in a program like Adobe InDesign). You can use artboards to crop areas for
printing or placement purposes. Multiple artboards are useful for creating a vari-
ety of things, such as multiple-page PDFs, printed pages with different sizes or
different elements, independent elements for websites, video storyboards, or indi-
vidual items for animation in Adobe Flash ® or Adobe After Effects.
A. Printable area is bounded by the innermost dotted lines and represents the
portion of the page on which the selected printer can print.
B. Nonprintable area is between the two sets of dotted lines representing any
nonprintable margin of the page. This example shows the nonprintable area of
an 8.5” x 11” page for a printer that cannot print to the edge of the page.
C. Artboard is bounded by solid lines and represents the entire region that can
contain printable artwork.
D. Bleed area is the amount of artwork that falls outside of the printing bounding
box, or outside the crop area and trim marks.
E. Canvas is the area outside the artboard that extends to the edge of the 227”
square window. Objects placed on the canvas are visible on-screen, but they do
not print.