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How can I make a custom Canada region using Fit Together Provinces? Answer: The Fit Together Provinces are scaled to fit adjacent provinces to make custom regions. Using Illustrator's Paste in Front command you can quickly make the region you need. You can buy individual Fit Together province map files or you can get all the Fit Together province maps which are included in the Premier International Canada product. How do I use Fit Together Provinces? Here's how to make custom regions using your Fit Together Provinces. • Adobe Illustrator settings - Check "Paste Remembers Layers" in the Layers palette Options menu. This will keep the map features in their layers when you copy & paste in front between documents. This also ensures that layers of map features will be intergrated when you combine different maps. For instance, all capitals from each of the provinces you are working with would be in a single layer entitled Province Capital in the combined map image. • Choose File > Open - Open all the provinces you need When you open each Fit Together province, you will notice that the provinces are within the scratch area, but not necessarily in the artboard. That's okay; the maps have a registered location within the file's scratch area. This registered location is what allows you to use the Past in Front command to automatically align the Fit Together provinces. The maps must be in this original location and scale in order to fit together properly. • Put provinces together using the Copy & Paste in Front commands You can now move one map into another of the Fit Together province maps to create your custom region. - In the first map, choose menu option Select > All. - With the map selected, then choose menu option Edit > Copy. - Now view the other map and choose menu option Edit > Paste in Front. • Edit the map You should edit the map features before moving the map to the artboard for printing. Once you move the maps from their registered location or change their scale, it will be more difficult to edit or combine with additional Fit Together provinces. You may want to save a copy of the combined maps in case you want to make changes in future. • Printing the map - To print your map, you need to move it to the artboard. An Adobe Illustrator file has two distinct areas for artwork: the scratch area and the artboard. The artboard is the region that can contain the printable artwork. The artboard is the same size as the page, but it can be enlarged or reduced. The scratch area is the area outside the artboard. It is the place on which you can create, edit, and store elements of artwork before moving them onto the artboard. Artwork on the the scratch area are visible onscreen, but they do not print. As mentioned above, the Fit Together maps have a registered location within the file that allows them to be easily combined. However, this often means that the map is not in the printable artboard of the file. To move your custom region map to the artboard: - Choose Select > All, then Edit > Cut. - Choose View > Fit in Window. - Choose Edit > Paste. Your map is now pasted into the artboard and can be printed. You will likely need to scale the map to fit your print size needs.
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