TIP (mentioned in some comment here): you can scale objects proportionally by entering in info or transform panel their new width/height and confirming your value with “Ctrl/Command+Enter” combo.Īs for the whole subject you can take a look at for more complete explanation with graphic examples. If you’re using the basic toolbar, you can find the Rectangular Grid Tool from the Edit Toolbar menu. Step 2: Choose the Rectangular Grid Tool from your toolbar, which should be in the same menu as the Line Segment Tool. Of course “Save for Web” still would be useful, with its possibility to provide quick preview and optimization of resultant file. Step 1: Create a new document and set the Width and Height to 500 x 500 pixels. It will make it possible to set artboard to exact needed size in pixels. Think of it as of manual “pixel perfext hinting”.Īlso using “pixels” as “document units”, as Mark Edwards suggested, would be a good thing. This way you'll have much greater control over final results, than by any form of automatic rasterization (e.g.

I think the best solution in this case would be to use Illustrator's “View->Pixel Preview” mode if applicable (I don't know which version you've got there).

How to change pixel size in illustrator