Creating a poster using Adobe Illustrator Setting up the poster file

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You MUST read through the Adobe Illustrator poster tutorial first (see page 39), as this tutorial. builds on the knowledge learned there. …

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Creating a poster using Adobe Illustrator
You will learn the following:
Setting up a poster file
Changing the Unit preferences
Formatting and layout of a poster
Titles, identity and location
The abstract
Text boxes and leading
Switching between open files
Placing images
Five general rules for posters
Examples
Printing
Setting up the poster file
Note: Before you try to create a poster, please
complete the basic Adobe Illustrator
tutorial starting on page 11.
1. Open Adobe Illustrator.
2. Choose Illustrator, then Preferences, then
Units & Display Performance…
3. Change Units, General, to Inches (if you
haven’t already done this in a previous
tutorial).
4. Choose File, New. You will be presented
with a New Document dialog box. Choose
RGB for the Color Mode. Almost all of
the files you create with Adobe Illustrator
will be done as RGB files. RGB files are
used in PowerPoint presentations, Posters
and on the web, CMYK files are used for
journal illustrations only.
5. Type the size of your poster into the Width
and Height fields. Since the maximum
paper size the poster printer can print is
44″, keep either the width OR the…