→ That pesky green border in Illustrator CS3
For the life of me, I could not figure out how to tell Illustrator to hide the green border that appears when you make a new document and use one of the web size defaults (e.g. 1024x768). Worse still, if you later change the document size, the border remains the original size.
It turns out it’s part of the Crop Area Tool (shift-O in your souvenir program), and if you select that tool, you can resize the box or nuke it altogether.
Using Illustrator is a dark art. I don’t know anyone who truly knows all of its mysterious intricacies. I’ve been using it off and on for a decade and it still frustrates me and amazes me by turns.
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