Does AI display actual dimensions of the file?

[Slime Shady]

Is there some way to see the actual measurements of what  I am creating?
thanks.

[Mylenium]

I'm not clear what you are asking. This merely depends on your document settings, the DPI and how you set the options on the rulers and info palette. If they are set up correctly, AI will display correct measurments right out of the box and honor these settings in input fields and so on as well.

Mylenium

[Slime Shady]

Okay so if I have the document set at 100% is there a ruler I can load up, like in Word?

[Ton Frederiks]

View > Rulers

Ctrl or right Click in the Ruler to set units

Preferences > General > Display Print Size at 100% Zoom.

Look at the info in the Transform panel for size of selected objects.

[John Mensinger]

"100%" is likely just the zoom level you're viewing at a given moment. It's not the physical size of your composition. Rulers and related options are on the View menu.

The artboard(s) is/are sized during initial file setup. To see the physical dimensions of the active artboard, double click the Artboard tool.

To see the dimensions of an object or the aggregate size of multiple objects, select it/them and check the Height (H) and Width (W) fields in the Transform panel (Window > Transform).

The context-sensitive Properties panel is also very useful in all those areas.

[Slime Shady]

thanks for you replies.

I am trying to trim off 1 cm from the edge of my document but I can't do it. I know it s a basic thing but how do I do it?

[Ton Frederiks]

Artboard Options in the Artboard panel?

[Slime Shady]

Hi there

thanks for your replies...
Where is the artboard panel? 
Im trying to select a section and delete it but its not working.Its a narrow 1 cm strip but it sems to be selecting the whole .

[Ton Frederiks]

Window menu > Artboards

[KShinabery212]

You can set the size of the Art Board or Canvas.

But vector files are scalable... meaning that you can print them large, super large or small and they do not lose quality.  So basically you could work on an image the size of an A4 piece of paper and scale it up to the size of a billboard and it will not lose quality.

This is why it is preferred to design logos in Illustrator as opposed to Photoshop.

This is the video I share with my students when explaining the difference for a vector graphic and raster graphic.  https://youtu.be/-Fs2t6P5AjY