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how do I crop an artboard in Illustrator?

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Nov 15, 2015 Nov 15, 2015

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A project I am working on seems to have added a sliver of "whitespace" on the right side of the artboard. In photoshop I would just use the crop tool, however, I can't find one in Illustrator.

Any suggestions?@

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Nov 15, 2015 Nov 15, 2015

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use the artboard tool

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Nov 15, 2015 Nov 15, 2015

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cwalker,

As I (mis)understand it, you may try Ctrl/Cmd+A and see whether there is something invisible out there (such as stray points), and get rid of it (you may see what it is in the Layers palette (or elsewhere) if you select it separately).

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Nov 15, 2015 Nov 15, 2015

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CMD+Option+p(MAC)   CTRL+ALT+P(PC)

Then click "Edit artboards"

you can re-size individual artboards or choose exact size or other optinos in the menu bar.

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I agree with cwalker, I would look for stray objects first, but a sliver of white doesn't make me think its a stray object or points.  cropping the document would not really be a fix unless you didn't care about the size of the doc. I imagine you are pulling an image in and it doesn't fit the doc and you want the artboard to match the image maybe? in any case, edit your artboard.

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I would first zoom (max 64000%) in to the effected area and see if it still appears to be there, there may be a preview issue, if so toggle Ctrl+E (GPU) and see if that has an effect

Secondly check your x and y's and do a test with a solid object and max it out over the artwork and see if you are still having the same. Also check to see if align to pixel grid is on which may shift it out of place great article here Re: What is happening with these pathfinder bugs?.

Lastly, if it is indeed an image you are importing then just make it larger than the background and then mask it to size within Illy.

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