Transforming Artwork - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 185

Positioning objects precisely
At times, you may want to position objects more precisely—either relative to other objects
or to the artboard. You could use the alignments options, like you saw in Lesson 2 “ Tech-
niques for Selecting Artwork , ” but you can also use Smart Guides and the Transform panel
to move objects to exact coordinates on the x and y axes and to control the position of ob-
jects in relation to the edge of the artboard.
Next, you'll add content to the backgrounds of two artboards and then position that content
precisely.
1. Press Command+- (Mac OS) or Ctrl+- (Windows) (or View > Zoom Out) three
times to zoom out. You should see content off the bottom edge of the artboards.
2. Click the artboard with the guides on it (the artboard named Front) to ensure that it
is the active artboard (check the origin of the rulers and make sure that 0,0 starts in
the upper-left corner of the artboard).
3. With the Selection tool ( ), click to select the large background shape on the left,
below the artboards (see the next figure for which shape).
4. Click the upper-left point of the reference point locator ( ) in the Control panel.

Then, change the X value to 0 and the Y value to 0 .