How to resize document in Illustrator?

Asked by johnny0313x (1855

) August 27th, 2009

I have a billboard I made in Illustrator that is the actual size of the billboard, i need to scale the entire thing down to 25% of the actual billboard size(this is smaller billboard then the typical size) Is there an easy way to just scale the whole thing without have to do any adjusting? Almost like you would us Image size in photoshop? The Illustrator file contains all vector images and 1 high res image.

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Go to view and select “show rulers” and “show grid” and that makes things much more precise.
Inside your document, select everything and then hold down <shift> while scaling down the vector drawing. This will keep your width in proportion to your height.

The_Compassionate_Heretic (14634

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Yeah I kinda figured that was the way, I guess I was being lazy lol. The weird thing is my edge of the box around my work area starts at 64⅓” on the ruler, I wish i just started at 1

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Select all (Command-A). From the top menu go Object > Transform > Scale (or just double click the Scale tool). Enter 25%. Check “Scale Stroke and Effects” if you have any outlines or gradients.

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